GMS 200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Work Unit, Knowledge Sharing, Organizational Architecture
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Divisional structures: group together people who work on the same product or process, serve similar customers, or are located in the same area of geographical region, common in complex organizations with diverse operations. Advantages of divisional structures: more flexibility in responding to environmental changes. Improved coordination: clear points of responsibility, expertise focused on specific customers, products, and regions. Disadvantages of divisional structures: reduce economies of scale through duplication of resources and efforts across divisions, competitions and poor coordination across divisions, emphasis on divisional goals at expense of organizational goals. Team structures: team structure extensively use permanent and temporary teams to solve problems, complete special projects, and accomplish day-to-day tasks, often use cross-functional teams composed of members from different functional departments. Boundaryless structures: eliminate internal boundaries among subsystems and external boundaries with the external environment, a combination of team and network structures, with the addition of temporariness , key requirements, absence of hierarchy.