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What contemporary and team-based organizational structures are companies using?
What contemporary and team-based organizational structures are companies using? (IntroductionToBusiness OP 8D04gAa · 2026-10-07-36573 · Summary of Learning Out…
Ideas in this flowchart
- Organizations are expanding beyond traditional departmentalization.
- Matrix structures combine two traditional structures, such as geographic and functional structures.
- Matrix structures bring people from different functional areas together for special projects.
- Matrix organizations are more flexible.
- Employees report to two direct supervisors, which makes matrix structures difficult to manage.
- Committees are groups whose members meet regularly to improve operations and solve specific problems.
- Reengineering is the complete redesign of business structures and processes to improve operations.
- Self-managed teams operate without formal supervision and evaluate their own performance.
- Virtual organizations are networks of independent companies connected by information technology.
- Virtual organizations share skills, costs, and access to markets while responding quickly to changing opportunities.
- Work groups share resources and coordinate efforts to help members perform their individual jobs.
- Teams resemble work groups but pool knowledge, skills, abilities, and resources to achieve a common goal.
