Facilitate Organization Structure Design - Six Questions

Six Questions to ask to facilitate organization design-

a. Standardize span of control- how many people report to a manager?
b. Control and Command - how many layer we allow from the lowest to the highest?
c. Formalization - how do you formalized the info gaps? how do you drive the policies and documentation?
d. Centralization- do you centralized the reporting structure?
e. Departmentalization- Can you combine related department? what kind of department you are organizing them - product, geography, process, matrix, network?
f. Work specialization- do you cover all the work scope in your design?