ESSAY QUESTION Please write more than 2 paragraphs Annie is

ESSAY QUESTION. Please write more than 2 paragraphs.

Annie is considering amending her current organizational structure. Using your reading try to advise her on what structure might work well to help solve her project problem.

Annie currently has four leadership team members that each head up one division: rifle design, rifle manufacture, rifle customer service, and sales. They each have final decision making authority within their departments. Annie says that she is thinking of creating an additional link in the decision train for the new project with one department head that like the others reports to the leadership team. Alternatively, should she feel the need to disband the project after the client sale is complete Annie would like to know what would happen if the fifth link were self-contained. Explain how you would allocate the resources of the company to make the new link in the train work on a daily basis? Be creative and practical think of the types of people you would need to accomplish the goal, money, resources of the business etc. Be sure to consider the various other departments and how they would interface with the project team. Alternatively, how would the link work if it were self- contained?

Solution

Organization structure, mostly viewed as static but in real life it turns out to be dynamic and as per my thinking should be fexible enough to adopt the changes happening outside and within the organization. What and how fast these changes are happening may guide the necessary changes to be made in the organization. This may result in deletion and or addition of departments and or redefine the relationships between departments. From the given text, it is not quite clear why Annie wants to have additional department.

At present there are four divisions, rifle design, rifle manufacture, rifle customer service, and sales. Final decision making authority lies within each department concerning that departments work, sounds good but it may be the case that depatment/division wise optimality (best decisions) may not be optimal for the organization as a whole one unit. Therefore to have additional department mainly for the project planning, monitoring and control may add value to the decision making. New department must have representation of each existing departments and their inputs for arriving at a decision from the organization\'s point of view and not restricted for individual department\'s best. If necessary, departments may revise their goal/targets to fall in line with the grand goal/target of the organization as defined by this new department at the apex level.

The qualifications, experiences, training and skills of the human resources for the new department must match with the leaders of the existing departments but also needs to match with much broader vision and mission of the organization.