A formal organizational structure is important for an organization to function effectively and achieve its goals. The document assigns students to create a fictional organization with details like its name, product or service, mission statement, number of employees and annual sales. Students must design the organization's structure using functional, product, customer, geographic, process, and matrix designs and allocate employee numbers to each department. References must be included from any course materials used.
A formal organizational structure is important for an organization to function effectively and achieve its goals. The document assigns students to create a fictional organization with details like its name, product or service, mission statement, number of employees and annual sales. Students must design the organization's structure using functional, product, customer, geographic, process, and matrix designs and allocate employee numbers to each department. References must be included from any course materials used.
A formal organizational structure is important for an organization to function effectively and achieve its goals. The document assigns students to create a fictional organization with details like its name, product or service, mission statement, number of employees and annual sales. Students must design the organization's structure using functional, product, customer, geographic, process, and matrix designs and allocate employee numbers to each department. References must be included from any course materials used.
(A) Why is a formal structure and design important to an organization? (minimum 250 words)
(B) Create a fictitious organization (company) and assign:
(i) Name, Product or Service offered, Mission statement, Total number of employees, Annual sales ($) (ii) Functional department structural diagram complete with number of employees allocated (iii) Product department structural diagram complete with number of employees allocated (iv) Customer department structural diagram complete with number of employees allocated (v) Geographic department structural diagram complete with number of employees allocated (vi) Process department structural diagram complete with number of employees allocated (vii) Convert your organization to a Matrix design and create a Matrix structural diagram complete with number of employees allocated Note: This is a group assignment as per assigned groups. ************************************************************************* Ensure to reference any material taken from lecture slides, course material, textbooks and any other sources used to support this assignment.