Thursday, August 9, 2018

Organizational Structure Part 5

  • Departmentalization by Business Function
    • Advantages
      • Ideally suited to a stable organizational environment
      • Requires less internal coordination
      • Facilitates the development of expertise
      • Not dependent on interpersonal and managerial skills
    • Disadvantages
      • Response time to issues can be slow
      • Bottlenecks occur due to sequential nature of the organizational decision making process
      • Innovation may suffer
      • Strong demand on senior managers to coordinate
      • Conflict emerges from prioritization issues
  • Departmentalization by Product
    • Advantages
      • Ideal for organizations experiencing fast change
      • Clearly Defined Roles & Responsibilities
      • Facilitates High Product Visibility
    • Disadvantages
      • Allocation of resources can become a political battle for priority
      • Coordination of activities can decline
      • Expertise may decline
  • Departmentalization - Matrix
    • Expertise can be realized across the organization to tackle organizational projects
    • Project Teams can be drawn from various Functional Units
    • Project Manager Appointed to Operate a Project
      • Solid lines indicate line of command
      • Dashed lines indicate shared authority between project manager and functional manager
    • Advantages
      • Allocates Expertise Across the Organization
      • Greater Flexibility in Tackling Organizational Issues
      • Realizes Top Management Expertise
      • Develops Employee Skills
    • Disadvantages
      • Encourages Power Struggles
      • Highly dependent on the interpersonal skills of staff
      • Project manager may assume to much authority
      • Project Manager may isolate other members
      • Costly to implement
    • Networks
      • Internal Network
      • Dynamic - Loosely Completed Network
      • Vertical Network
      • Virtual Network:   "The virtual organization is a temporary network of companies that come together quickly to exploit fast-changing opportunities"
      • Virtual
        • Technology
        • Opportunism
        • Trust
        • No Borders
        • Excellence
Until next time...






Sheryl Tuchman, SPHR, SHRM-SCP
http://tools2succeed.com/

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