Organizational variables
- Decision rights
Authority to initiate, approve, implement, and control various types of decisions necessary to plan and run the business.
- Business processes
The set of ordered tasks needed to complete key objectives of the business.
- Formal reporting relationships
The structure set up to ensure coordination among all units within the organization.
- Informal networks
Mechanism, such as ad hoc groups, which work to coordinate and transfer information outside the formal reporting relationships.