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AFTER STUDYING THIS CHAPTER, YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO :

• Define and discuss the nature of international organization design and identify and describe the initial impacts of international business activity on organization design
• Identify and describe five advanced forms of international organization design and discuss hybrid global designs
• Identify and describe related issues in global organization design
• Explain the general purpose of control and the levels of control in international business.
• Describe how international firms manage the control function.

Introduction

An Introduction to 

INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION DESIGN AND CONTROL

Organization Design is the overall pattern of which all the structural components and configuration are utilized in managing the organization as whole. The appropriate for any particular organization depends on the size of the firm, strategy, technology and environment as well as the cultures that the organization originate from.

However there are several factors affecting an organization's ability to function and it has to be properly assembled and managed :

a. the manner that the organization allocate all its valuable resources i.e capital, manpower and etc.
b. how the organization assigned tasks to all its employees.
c. the way that the organization take to enforce its rules, procedures, and expectation pertaining to the employees' performance. and
d . the way the organization collects and transmit data or information that are crucial for problem solving, decision making, and effective organizational control.