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This 6 page paper is a PowerPoint presentation including speaker notes which looks at three different types of organizational structure; functional, divisional and matrix. Each type of structure discussed and a recommendation is made for the structure which may be most appropriate for Boeing, along with justification. The bibliography cites 3 sources.
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always looking for strategies that can be utilized to maximize their use of resources, both human and physical assets, especially when they are in business that are renowned for having
high overheads. Research has taken place to assess the potential of different approaches to managing business; however the structure of organization and the contribution this can make to performance and
the bottom line has become unfashionable. Despite this unfashionably, but despite this there is evidence to suggest that structure can have a significant impact on the way a company performs.
There are different organizational structures a company can adapt, but not all are equally effective. Slide 2 There are different strictures that organizations may adopt. The decision on how
to structure the company depends on many factors including the value and culture of the firm and the attitude of the senior management. The way that an organization is structured
may be broadly divided into three types; functional, divisional and matrix (Harris and Raviv, 2002). Slide 3 A functional structure is the traditional hierarchy, with top down management. This can
be seen as giving a high level of control to management, but can result in slow decision making and a lack of communications across departments (Thompson, 2005, Harris and Raviv,
2002). Slide 4 Research by Larson and Gobeli (1989) indicate that where companies had adopted functional structures were found to be statistically less likely to be successful than structures such
as a balanced matrix or project matrix. However the research also indicated it was not as simple as the structure, the culture, communications ad support systems also need to support
the matrix structure (Larson and Gobeli, 1989). Slide 5 The second type of structure is the divisional structure; this has been used successfully by many multinational and domestic firms. This
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