Both, Action Realty Inc and Dimitri Baked Goods, are organizations that were founded by entrepreneurs who were dynamic leaders and are seeking control over their financial freedom.
Structure:
"The manner in which an organization divides its labour into specific tasks and achieves coordination among these tasks" (Johns Gary & Saks M. Alan, Organizational Behaviour (fifth edition), Pearson Education Canada Inc., 2001). In contrast with Action Realty Inc., Dimitri Baked Goods is a very centralized organization. It is extremely flat and has little horizontal differentiation. Leakos, who is the owner, handles all the staff functions of personnel, planning, budgeting and sales.
When comparing the two organizations, Action Realty and Dimitri Baked Goods, are different in their functional departmentation. Dimitri Baked Goods has a production department, sales department, two office workers, plus the retail outlet. Action Realty has an administrative department, property management division, residential department and the commercial real estate division. After tasks that assist the organization achieve its goals have been divided between individuals and departments, they must be coordinated in order for those goals to be achieved.
Unlike Dimitri's, all the departments at Action Realty are independent of each other, which makes coordination among tasks more difficult. At Dimitri's, Leakos is the "liaison role" of the organization. This helped him succeed in achieving integration and created an environment that does not require standardization. He promotes an informal structure, by commuting with them on a face-to-face basis.
At Dimitri's, there is little supervision that is required for coordination of jobs. Leakos's organization charac ...