Creating an appropriate delivery mechanism and structure for an organization to coordinate its components into an interdependent system describes which concept?

• A. Organizing
• B. Organizational design
• C. Planning
• D. Position power

Answer: (B)

Organizational design is about shaping the structure and the delivery systems that coordinate the organization’s parts into a single, interdependent system. Describing how to create an appropriate delivery mechanism and structure directly targets how units fit together, how reporting lines and roles are arranged, and how information and decisions flow to keep everything coordinated. This focus on arranging the architecture of the organization and the coordination processes is what sets organizational design apart. Organizing is the broader act of arranging resources to carry out plans, planning is about setting goals and steps to achieve them, and position power concerns who has authority rather than how the organization is structured.