It’s a kind of structure that forms parallel lines of
authority, that takes into account both product and functional departmentalization. Virtual Organization: To compete, the small business organization outsources major parts of its process to other organizations. In structural terms, such structures are strictly centralized with very minimal departmentalization or zero departmentalization. Leaner Organization (Downsizing): The organization may bring more agility in their process by downsizing or selling the units that are of no value addition to the organization. To concentrate more into their core process the organization Issues: Boeing Dreamliner is a big organization with 100 offshore business unit, and several supply chain vendors to deal with that makes it a complex structure and non-clarity reporting, a higher span of control. The offshore employee’s difficulty in understanding the multilingual format and provision for options in the making airline parts for the vendors shows the lack of standardization of work i.e. mechanistic model. This is already evident from the delay that was frequent in their work and the mechanistic fault that was occurring frequently in the airline parts shows the lack of standardization of work. Organizational Structure & Managerial structure used: The structures that are used in the Boeing Dreamliner are a complex structure with a mix of organic, mechanistic and boundary-less structure. The complexity of the supply chain further complicates this structure. The currently wider span of control is used in the Boeing Dreamliner that makes it almost impossible to fix the accountability of the team and the management. It is for such reason that McNerney believes that the smaller span of control will fix the responsibility and accountability of the management concerning performance.