Zen Pacific Consultants - Organization Structure

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structure. There are four classifications of organization structure according to Henry Mintzber [1983]:

1. Machine Bureaucracy Standardize procedures and outputs

2. Professional Organization Standardize professional skills and norms

3. Entrepreneurial Startup Direct supervision and control

4. Adhocracy Mutual adjustment of ad-hoc teams

Zen Pacific comes under the second classification where the company has accumulated professional skill pool and structured its company based on their efficiency. Zen's organizational structure could shown in the following chart:

Chart 1: Zen Pacific Consultant - Organizational Chart

The company has a centralized upper management level, controlled by the mother company Wai Kee. At the second level is Zen Pacific. Zen Pacific is basically the coordinator for the various departments. Although, the concentration of the professionals are largely at the third level provided by its human resources department, the ...

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of other construction companies but project allocation is dependent on the division that handles it.

Zen Pacific, being an engineering project company largely depends on its professional pools for effective outcome. However, it also realizes that it need to formalize process management where project engineers must follow the various channels of communication before they could address the upper management regarding any issues. Before, they reach upper management they are filtered through administration, Zen Pacific Contractors and Human Resources.

ANALYSIS OF STRUCTURE:

Formalization:

Professional Standard classification is based on formalization of organizational ...

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