Leadership and Organizational Structure

Leadership conditions affect both the stability of and causal relationships among variables describing organizational structure. Where leadership has changed in the past, where it is dependent on higher authority, and where it is in close contact with superiors, organizational structures are unstable over time, but orderly causal relationships among environmental variables, size, and measures of organizational structure appear. Where leadership has been stable, and where it is autonomous and insulated from higher authority, organizational structures are more predictable, but causal relationships vanish.