Identify the six structural variables that make up the organization structure and explain why they are so important.

The six structural variables (or dimensions)are job design,coordination and departmentation,decision-making and leadership structure,communication and information structure,control structure,and the reward system.These variables act as levers to produce the behaviour desired by the organization.All of these structural variables are interrelated and must fit together for an organization to be effective.To identify the managerial strategy that a firm is actually using,it is necessary to examine the structural variables.