Organizational Structure Collaborative Discussion
Buckleigh Brown
MGT/230
6/15/20105
Lastacy Whitman

As a whole the team watched the video and then when it came to the organizational structure of different companies it looks like we see that the functional organization style seems to be the most desired for large companies. You have the business broken down into different department and within those departments you have a department head that report directly to the chief executive officer or the owner and he decides the direction and policy that will be implemented within each department and then the department heads disseminate that information or policy back down through their respective department. The cons of this though would be a department to start thinking autonomously and now looking at how their department is part of the whole. We also saw how a divisional organizational style seems to be good for sales type companies. Instead of departments you have regions and within those regions you have areas with a single manager in each that reports up. You would have to have the managers to be knowledgeable about all aspects of the company do to the fact that they are responsible for the performance of the whole area or region. If you have strong leadership you can really tell as a chief executive officer or an owner what regions are doing better than the others and it forces managers to spotlight their leadership. The cons of this type of structure is if you have weak managers you will have a whole area or region fail instead of a department. The matrix organizational style seems to be the least popular within the team. To have to report to two separate managers seems like it would be redundant or if the managers were not on the same page then you would get into a he said she said type of business which would ultimately fail. The pros of this type of