TRANSFORMATION OF THE ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE OF A TRANSPORT COMPANY MANAGEMENT AS A MEANS OF ADAPTATION TO CHANGES IN THE ENVIRONMENT
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Abstract (English):
The influence of changes of typical organizational management structures in transport companies on the effectiveness of its adaptation to the changing environment is analyzed. The impact is studied which affects the efficiency indicators of increasing the intensity of communication flows, including the formation of the position of a communication broker in the organization structure, an increase in the number of communication channels per agent, an increase in the intensity of interaction between individual agents when using modern means of communication, such as corporate messengers, online meetings, videoconferences. The research method is numerical modeling of the behavior of a transport industry company, presented as a set of interacting agents. The nature of the organization model construction reflects the prevailing organizational culture in it (the study considers models of two types of organizational culture – hierarchy and adhocracy). The novelty of the work is in quantifying the effectiveness of the transport organization in processing information about changes in the environment through modifications of the organizational structure. The results of the study show that the organizational effectiveness is determined by the static and dynamic characteristics of the organizational management structure. Static characteristics include the depth of hierarchy levels, the density of interaction between agents and departments in the organization; dynamic characteristics include the speed of information dissemination, indicators of the impact of agents on each other. Conclusions. A comprehensive analysis of the environment, the organizational structure of management and the level of training individual agents that make up the organization allows to select a modification of the communication environment that ensures an increase in the effectiveness of the adaptive abilities of the transport industry organization.

Keywords:
structure, management, culture, environment, company, flows, broker, agent
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