WE ARE GOING TO BE DISCUSS…

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 Contemporary organizational designs.
 Team Based Structure
 What is organizational design?
 Matrix organization

 Project structure

 Learning organization

 Boundaryless organization

 Net work

 Virtual

 Modular
What is organizational design?
Developing or changing an organization’s
structure

 Work specialization
 Departmentalization
 Chain of command
 Span of control
 Centralization & Decentralization
 Formalization
 Organizational designs.

Traditional
Simple Contemporary
Functional Team
Matrix
Divisional
Project

Boundaryless
Learning
 Contemporary organizational
Designs.

Using creative ways to structure &

organize,
work and make more responsive to
customers
employees & other organizational
constituents
called contemporary organizational
designs.
 Why we are using these
organizational designs?
 To response marketplace demands
 To minimize wastage
 To flexible
 To be innovative
 To be success
 Team Based Structure

A structure in which the entire

organization is made up of work groups
or teams.

Eg: Air force, army,Mass holdings

Product development team
Advantages

•Employees are more involved and empowered.

•Reduced barriers among functional areas.

Disadvantages

•No clear chain of command.

•Pressure on teams to perform.
 Matrix organization

A structure that assigns specialists from

different
functional areas to work on projects but
who
return to their areas when the project is
completed.

Matrix structure workers have two

managers.
Advantages:
•Fluid and flexible design that can respond to
environmental changes.
•Faster decision making.

Disadvantages
•Complexity of assigning people to projects.
•Task and personality conflicts.
Matrix organization
 Project Structure
 An organizational structure in which
employees continuously work on
projects is a project structure
 Boundary Less Structure

A structure that is not defined by or

limited to artificial horizontal, vertical, or
external boundaries.
Eg :Uniliver, GE
 Advantages:

 Highly flexible and responsive.

 Draws on talent wherever it’s found.

Disadvantages
 Lack of control.
 Communication difficulties..
 Types of boundaryless structure

 Network organizations.
various functions are coordinated as much
by ,

 # Market mechanisms
 # Managers
 # Formal lines of authority
 Virtual Organizations

In a virtual organization an alliance of independent

companies Share skills, costs, and access to one
another’s markets. It consists of a network of
continually evolving independent companies.
 The Modular Organization

A modular organization is an organization that

performs a few core functions and outsources
noncore activities to specialists and suppliers.
 Learning organization

A learning organization -an

organization that
has developed the continuous capacity to
adapt
and change because all members take an
active
role in identifying and resolving work-
related
issues.
 Characteristics of the learning
organization
Organizational designs
o Boundaryless
o Team
o Empowerment

Organizational culture Information sharing

o Strong mutual o Open
relationship THE LEARNING o Timely
o Sense of community ORGANIZATION o Accurate
o Caring
o Trust

Leadership
o Shared vision
o Collaboration
Why learning organizations work?

• The people develop

- Greater motivation

- The work force is more flexible

- People are more creative

- Improved social interactions.

 Teams and groups work better
- knowledge sharing
- Interdependency
 The company benefits
- Break down of traditional communication
barriers.
- Customer relations.
- Information resources
- Innovation and creativity
Risk of the learning organizations

 Too much freedom and information can

create misunderstandings.
 The culture of the country may be a
disadvantage.
 Not all the employees want to learn and
resist the change
 The openness created endangers the
trust between employees.
 Summary
 Contemporary organizational designs.
 What is organizational design?
 Team Based Structure

 Matrix organization

 Project structure

 Learning organization

 Boundaryless organization

 Net work

 Virtual

 Modular