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Answer 2
Answer 2
Student's Name
Institutional Affiliation
Course
Professor
Date
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[service group manager]; [product group director]; [shared resources group director];
manager;
data analyst;
graphic designer;
developer;
Project Manager;
The new recommended structure of the organization seems to put less emphasis on hierarchy.
Instead, the focus is on collaboration to make it easy for everyone on your team to work with
Explanation of Changes
The fundamental motivation behind this shift is to allow for decentralization. Before
these arrangements, each director concentrated only on their respective responsibilities. This
included senior managers and designers directly below them in the power hierarchy. However,
the newly proposed system allows directors to work together to coordinate the progress of
projects across the organization without necessarily focusing on a single function (Holck 2018).
Thus, managers collaborate with designers, project managers, developers, and data analysts.
The organization will benefit from these changes in several ways. On the one hand, the
organization's project coordination becomes flexible. For example, data analysts in the service
and product groups can now work together, opening the door to innovations that benefit both
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departments. All market specialists now work in a horizontal rather than a hierarchical structure
(Jackson & Otaki, 2022). This creates a more cohesive design and allows everyone to work
communication from a manager does not necessarily reach everyone in the organization.
Communication between project managers may not be precise because there is no specific line of
communication between them. This can be dangerous, especially in sensitive projects where
managers and directors must monitor everything closely. Because everyone works from a
methodology, understanding the system can make it difficult to execute such a project rather than
being guided by an established organizational structure (Lyson et al., 2019). Everyone must be
aware of these flaws in team-based organizational structures and seek to rectify them before they
On the one hand, even though it can negatively impact organizational communication,
team-based structures have many advantages. They must wait for their manager's approval
before sharing it with their colleagues. Unlike situations where they have to consult their boss
before taking further action, this method makes it much easier for them to progress faster.
However, some communication can become problematic if you have a large team. This is most
likely to occur after team members change from a hierarchical structure accustomed to effective
References
Jackson, L., & Otaki, F. (2022). Using Team-Based Learning to optimize undergraduate Family
https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-1715847/latest.pdf
Lyson, H. C., Ackerman, S., Lyles, C., Schillinger, D., Williams, P., Gourley, G., ... & Sarkar, U.
(2019, March). Redesigning primary care in the safety net: a qualitative analysis of team-
Van Schaik, S. M., Chang, A., Fogh, S., Haehn, M., Lyndon, A., O'Brien, B., ... & Baron, R. B.