Oveis Bagheri Geigal - Department of Financial Management, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

Purpose - The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between two types of organizational structure (organic or mechanical) and the organizational technology includes four classification; simple, engineering, art and complex technology.The First International Conference on Political Epic (with an Approach to Middle East Developments) & Economic Epic (with an Approach to Management and Accounting) Design/methodology/approach - We have considered Charls Perrow model due to standard questionnaires were used to evaluate organizational structure and types of technology (through formalization, centralization, complexity questionnaires for function structure and analyzing the problem for technology types) At the next step we have used independence test for main and secondary hypothesis in our research by using spss software based on chi-square statistic at 95% confidence level ( = 5%). Findings - The results of the statistical analysis indicate the significant relationship between mechanical organizational structure and simple & engineering technology. Also these results indicate the significant relationship between organic organizational structure and art & complex technology. According to these results, the main hypothesis of this research has been proven and we concluded that there is a significant relationship between the amount of benefits of organizational structure and benefits of organizational technology. Originality/value – This paper is the first research that has been done about the organizational structures in relevance companies in Iran, Also we have recommended the enhancing of organizational productivity and converting the mechanical structures (with low complexity and high centralization and formalization) to organic organizational structure (with high complexity and low formalization and centralization) for the first time in the globalization and joining of Iran to the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the extension field of international competition.

Mechanical Structure, Organic Structure, Charls Perrow Model, Simple Technology, Engineering Technology, Art Technology, Complex Technology