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Contributors: @Jessica Zwaan, @Dart Lindsley, @Perry Timms, @Moran Williams

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Why

Org charts aren’t org design. There is an element of organisational design which is often ignored, which is how people work on things together, rather than who manages who.

Organisational design is also a set of principles by which we are guided while we build our organisation and become. the type of company we’d like to be.

Some elements of organisational design principles will be aspirational.

What

There are traditional approaches to organisational design which may crop up when you’re learning more about organisational design as a HR leader.

First principles FTW

What do I want to happen to me? What makes sense.

However your communication flows is how your org is really designed.

There are, of course, some very helpful reading and thinking already published on more traditional approaches to organisational design, but remember that this is only one part of what your team needs to understand.

Five common approaches — functional, divisional, matrix, team, and networking—help managers determine departmental groupings (grouping of positions into departments). The five structures are basic organizational structures, which are then adapted to an organization's needs.