Organizational Behaviour
...e as follows: 1. Strategic Apex 2. Middle line 3. Operating core 4. Support Staff 5. Technostructure. MintzbergÕs Model of the basic parts of organization. Subunit Example positions from a manufacturing firm. Strategic Apex Board of Directors, Chief Executive Officer Technostructure Strategic Planning, Personnel Training, Operations Research, Systems Analysis and Design Support Staff Legal Counsel, Public Relations, Payroll, Mailroom Clerks, Cafeteria Workers Middle Line VP Operations, VP Marketing, Plant Managers Sales Managers Operating Core Purchasing Agents, Machine Operators, Assemblers, Sales Persons, Shippers Table 1: shows examples of positions found in each of MintzbergÕs structure of an organization. After his research, Mintzberg produced a asset of five clusters, or configurations, that showed the most important points for the study of organizations, These configurations separate the broad key organizational features int...