Question

You are a member of the senior management staff at XYZ Corporation. You have historically been using a functional structure set up with five departments: finance, human resources, marketing, production, and engineering. Create a drawing of your simplified functional structure, identifying the five departments. Assume you have decided to move to a project structure. What might be some of the environmental pressures that would contribute to your belief that it is necessary to alter the structure? With the project structure, you have four projects currently ongoing: stereo equipment, instrumentation and testing equipment, optical scanners, and defense communications. Draw the new structure that creates these four projects as part of the organizational chart.

Answer 1

Answer and Explanation:

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Organizational structure can be depicted using the organizational chart showing how the different departments are arranged in such a manner as to suit the organization and be directed firmly towards its goals

B. Different organizational structure exists for different organizations depending on the type of business the company is into. A company would define it's organizational structure based on such things as market changes and competition to enable flexibility and actionable and quick responses to changes. This is done to enable quick and effective decision making for a constantly changing business environment