The Navy’s Organizational 1

The Navy’s Organizational Structure
Timothy White
Professor Diana Echols
Organizational Behavior
May 16, 2009

The Navy’s Organizational 2
The Organizational Structure deals with centralization of authority, division of labor, and formalization. The United States Navy illustrates all these facets.
The United States Navy’s Organizational structure can be considered a cross between a professional Bureaucracy or Divisionalized form. A professional bureaucracy is a complex and stable environment, which relies primarily on set of standard skills (Griffin & Moorehead, 2009). There are professional areas of expertise were formalization is minimum. Positions throughout the organization are trained in a particular skill set. Every task is performed with specific rules and procedures according to their profession (Griffin & Moorehead, 2009). The characteristics of a divisionalized form operate in a relative very large and simple environment with several different divisions (Griffin & Moorehead, 2009). Decisions are made between both the department head and the division with the output being standard.
Let’s narrow this to an example of a naval vessel structure. On a ship it is broken down into several different departments which are divided into divisions within the departments, depending on the task of the department. First, we would have to start with the organizational charts which consist of: The Commanding Officer, Executive Officer, Department Head, Division Officer, Leading Chief Petty Officer, Leading Petty Officer and Work Center Supervisor.
The Commanding Officer, who is often referred to as the CO, is overall responsible for the entire ship. The CO establishes the policies and guide lines for the ship and has final approval on all documents and programs implemented at the command. The responsibility is absolute