Mark Cubans Organizational Structure with the Dallas Mavericks

An organizational structure defines how job tasks are formally divided, grouped, and coordinated. Managers need to address six key elements when they design their organization’s structure: work specialization, departmentalization, chain of command, span of control, centralization and decentralization, and formalization.2 Exhibit 15-1 presents each of these elements as answers to an important structural question, and the following sections describe them.