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Netra Shetty
Office Depot (NYSE: ODP) is a supplier of office products and services. The company's selection of brand name office supplies includes business machines, computers, computer software and office furniture, while its business services encompass copying, printing, document reproduction, shipping, and computer setup and repair.
An S&P 500 company, Office Depot generates revenues of over US $14 billion annually and has 42,000 employees worldwide. It is headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida.

CEO

Steve Odland

Director

David Bernauer

Director

Brenda Gaines

Director

Myra Hart

Director

Marsha Evans

Director

Kathleen Mason

Director

Scott Hedrick

Director

Lee Ault
Director

Raymond Svider
Director

James Rubin
Director

Justin Bateman

Director

David Fuente
Director

Thomas Colligan

Lead Director

Neil Austrian
CIO

MK
CFO

Mike Newman
E-Commerce & Direct Marketin...

ML
Legal & Secretary

EG
Human Resources

DV

International

Charles Brown

North American Business Solu...

Steven Schmidt
North American Retail

KP
Control

JM
EMEA

DC
Organizational Structures reflects the level of growth and stage of the company or the organization. The four stages are: the emergent, the launch or growth, the consolidation and the mature (, ). stated that the three types of organizational structures are: the hierarchical structures, the team structures and the network structures. These said types of structures indicate on how the organization functions and how it is managed; how the information flows and process inside the organization; and how flexible or responsive the organization is ().

This is important because it will be used throughout the overall transactions of the company and organization that will eventually reflect to its overall performance and production.

Different companies and organizations require different types of organizational structures. It is chosen based on the present structure that is used as well as the areas that are in great need for new and improved structure.

Other public sector organizations such as PR or tourism bodies can deploy a more organic structure that will allow the business to be flexible and reduce the number of levels in the organizations structure. In this case the role of managers becomes one of empowerment, providing workers with the information, training, authority and accountability to excel.

Tom Burns and G. M. Stalker, (1961) are famous for establishing the distinction between mechanistic and organic approaches to organization and management. They illustrated that when change in environment becomes the order of the day, as when changing technological and market conditions pose new problems and challenges, open and flexible styles of organization and management are required (Morgan, 2006).

Management is seen to engineer an organizational culture and identity, which impels individuals to take responsibility to rationalize and intensify their own work activities, i.e. "to work smarter to work harder". The target of this control is not individuals' behavior, but their emotional commitments, modes of thinking and identities.
 
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