¶ … Organizational Structure Singapore Management University is one of the universities in Singapore whose development was overseen by the Higher Education Division as an autonomous university alongside three other universities namely National University of Singapore, the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore University of Technology and Design (Ministry of Education, Singapore, 2012). This university was officially incorporated in 2000 and was the first private university that was sponsored by the government. Just like the National University of Singapore.

The university hosts an average of 7,000 students in the six schools that are within the university offering the undergraduate, graduate and even the PhD levels of education and training. The main schools within the university are Accountancy school, Business Management school, Information Systems management school, Economics, social sciences and Law (Singapore Management University, 2012a). These are among other research centers as well as providing programs that are custom made for those who are working professionals. The university has a distinguishing factor from the other universities in the region in that it requires its students to undergo a minimum of 80 hours of community service and minimum of 10 weeks of internship, these an be done overseas or locally but have to be met before one graduates.

The next likely concern is then how such a massive university is governed and what would be the management system of the university and how these various schools coordinate their activities to ensure they fit into the ultimate goal of the SMU without much difficulty. This management is a taxing one bearing the seven thousand and above students who are hosted by the institution in the various schools as shown.

To increase efficiency in the delivery of knowledge and training, the external environment of the university is such that each school or institution under the university has been allocated a different physical location and sufficient buildings and infrastructure to enable them operates as though they are independent...

Each f these six schools is headed by their own deans. The dean has the responsibility of ensuring that the daily running of the school is smooth and the objectives of the school are met in line with the wider vision of the SMU. This he does with the assistance of several officials within his office like the associate deans, associate directors, assistant director, managers, assistant managers, administrative executives among others as may be required according to the needs in each office.
In each school, there is also a management structure that is efficiently structured to help in the running, decision making and growing of the schools. There is in place an Advisory Board in each school that is charged with the streamlining the curriculum of each of the schools, advice on the changes that may be required in the school, check and give feedback on the performance of the students, arrange for the internships of the students in the various schools, act as a liaison between the research by the schools and the real industry/market out there, these being some of the general responsibilities of the Advisory Boards in various schools (Singapore Management University, 2012b). There are however some other functions that are specific to the schools. The Advisory Board is headed by a chairperson with several other members, to the tune of eight, from highly respectable professions and positions being the members of the advisory board.

The idea of an advisory board is also used in the other significant institutions within the university and is not restricted to the schools alone. The Li Ka Shing Library also has an advisory board or commonly referred to as the Institutional Repository Advisory Board. It has almost the same purposes as the other school advisory boards' functions as it oversees the smooth running of the library and the facilitation of research work among the students and the teaching staff. It also has a chairperson, the members as well as the ex-officio who are the members of the Advisory Board.

At the apex of the SMU management structure is the Board of…