TMP 127 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Videotelephony
20 Jan 2019
School
Department
Course
Professor
TMP 127
Managing Tech Orgs
Winter 2018
• Divisional structure: org structure composed of separate
business units within which are functions that work together to
produce a specific product for a specific customer
• Product structure: each product line or business handled by a
self-contained division
• Advantages:
o Allows functional managers to specialize in one product
area
o Division managers become experts in their area
o Corporate managers do not need direct supervision of the
division
o Divisional management improves the use of resources
• Geographical structure: each region of a country or area of the
world is served by a self-contained division
• Global Geographic Structure: managers locate diff divisions in
each of world regions where org operates; used when managers
are pursuing a multidomestic strategy
• Global product structure: each product division, not country or
regional managers, is responsible for deciding where to
manufacture its products & how to market them in foreign
countries
• Market/Customer Structure: each kind of customer served by a
self-contained division
• Matrix Structure: org structure simultaneously groups people &
resources by function and product
• Product Team Structure: employees permanently assigned to a
cross-functional team & report only to product team manager or
to one of his direct subordinates
• Cross-Functional Team: group of managers brought together
from diff departments to perform org tasks
• Authority: power to hold people accountable for their actions &
make decisions concerning use of org resources
