Palabras clave: Diseño organizativo, intensidad administrativa, tamaño de la organización, teoría de la organización. * Este artículo forma parte del proyecto código 001-AC-2012 financiado por el CDCHT-UCLA. ABSTRACT This research paper shows a work with a methodological and quantitative approach, had as main purpose to evaluate the relationship between the size of the organization measured by the number of workers and the organizational design variable: Administrative Intensity. Is taken as

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... dy case, a set of medium size enterprises in the Lara state (Venezuela), of which was obtained a set of data processed by descriptive and multivariate statistics such as correlation analysis and simple regression. It is concluded from the analysis and processing of data, the existence of a negative and statistically significant relationship between the size and administrative intensity, confirming on the one hand the established in the literature in this particular for large organizations and otherwise, reafirming the same trend for medium enterprises that generally expected that the directive, managerial and administrative staff keep higher proportions in relation to the operational staff, if comparisons between company size it is.