بررسي ارگانيكي يا مكانيكي بودن ساختار سازماني موجود دانشگاه آزاد اسلامي واحد نوشهر و چالوس و تعيين ساختار ارجح از ديدگاه كاركنان

To show the significance and necessity of organizations in a community, Etzioni maintains that the contemporary community is essentially an organizational one due to the fact that the contemporary man lives in organizations from birth to death. However, considering the importance and the role of structure on the effective performance of organizations, it is necessary to determine what a suitable structure is. There are many situational variables that affect the determination of effective structure so much so that it is almost impossible to investigate all of them simultanuosly. However, considering the great importance of the situational variable of the personnel in an organization, we have decided to focus on this variable in this investigation. In this article, after literature review, via survey research, both the existing organizational structure and the preference of Islamic Azad University ofNowshahr and Chaloos were analysed. The analysis is based on Burns and Stalkerʹs famous classification of organizational structure, that is, Mechanical and Organic structure from the employeesʹ point of view. It is concluded that the existing organizational structure of the university is a middle structure (that is, a state- between mechanical and organical structure) but the preferred organizational structure of University is a mechanical one. In other words, there is a discrepancy between the existing organizational structure and the preference in Islamic Azad University of Nowshahr and Chaloos.