The organizational structure I am looking at is that of Sony Corporation.
Link: http://www.theofficialboard.com/org-chart/sony
Sony Corporation, being a huge company, has its structure organized in departments. While there is still a CEO, a chairman and a vice chairman, the rest of the executives organized in different aspects of the company's business, for example, Kenji Kimura is the executive of the intellectual property sector of the company. There is a clear bureaucracy within Sony as in who do what jobs, as everyone are divided into departments. This sort of structure is useful for such a huge company because responsibilities are very clear-cut. Moreover, this structure is somewhat centralized as executives are to make decisions for different aspects of the company. Centralized structure gives the executives huge authorities and accountabilities and this may lead to something like a dictatorship in the company, where employees have little freedom in their work.
Although it is not clear how staffs are organized under each of department, given that Sony is such as large corporation, a flat hierarchy will be in appropriate because if managers of the departments have a wide span of control over employees under them, they could not be able to handle so many staffs by themselves; therefore, it will be a safe guess that Sony Corporation has a tall hierarchy, that is, the managers are only responsible for a handful of staffs and there are many levels of hierarchy below them so that the responsibility won't be as huge on the executives of the departments. The line of commend, however, becomes really long. If the executives need to pass down commands all the way down to the labor workers, the commands would need to go through a number of levels before it reaches the workers, which is very inefficient as it would take a lot of time and communication problems may occurs.
