Introduction

This section is intended to centre on three related foci: organisation structure (i.e. management's official attempt to provide an appropriate formal blueprint to shape the organisation's behaviour), the actual behaviour of the organisation as a whole, and the relation between the two. To a significant extent the section is intended to consolidate the knowledge and skills achieved from exercises based on the earlier sections of this book, each of which was largely concerned with partial analyses of organisational behaviour, mostly from the standpoint of a particular cluster of variables. The cases and references may, however, usefully be studied independently of the other sections.