Business structures of organization and management at the crossroads

In the system concept of the enterprise, organization and management and their structures are its functional, spatial integrating elements that create relations and links of corporate architecture. The paper focuses on organizational and management structures in the current market economy conditions of the Czech Republic. The theoretical basis of the issue is defined as the theory of organizing with organizational behaviour. It contains important definitions of the terms, including the basic configuration of organizational structures. Based on a large sample of mostly South Bohemian enterprises, the current level of organizational and management structures is analysed, basic comparisons according to the size categories of enterprises with sectoral differentiation is carried out. The outputs of the analysis revealed that there is a decline of classical management structures such as the divisional and combined structure at the expense of unit structures with the trend being the most intense in the largest enterprises. Such transformation provably relates to business orientation, and the industrial sector is more pronounced. In terms of the number of management levels, there was no causal relation to the focus of the enterprise, unlike its size. At the same time, the results revealed a significant lack of knowledge of organizational and managerial skills of business managers, particularly in micro and small enterprises. The overriding opinion of all the executives in the sample should be a requirement for the gradual reorganization of the existing organizational and management structures with an individual approach for each enterprise. The conclusion of the paper summarizes the results achieved and indicates the expected trend of the corporate architecture