Organisational Structure

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Organisational Structure
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ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE
Matrix organisational structure is an atypical structure that connects employees and
managers from diverse departments and promotes them to work in sync towards
accomplishments of goals (Lunenburg 2012). One of the core advantage of matrix organisation
structure is it encourages a democratic leadership style (Lunenburg 2012). This leadership style
incorporates a through input of team members before the managers finalize the decision. This
onus, which is imparted over the employees towards valuable decision making helps in the
development of employee confidence. This employee confidence promotes employee motivation
and simultaneous job satisfaction. This collaborative decision making is one of the main
advantages of the matrix organisational structure and this in turn help the leaders to keep their
team members informed and motivated towards the entire work process. However, matrix
organisational structure is often criticised for the generation of internal complexity (Lunenburg
2012). For example an employee may get directed via different command concerning the same
problem from different supervisors coming from different departments. This dual authority along
with communication problem cause a partition among the employees and the managers and the
onus of shared decision making may give rise of internal conflict or conflict of interest
(Lunenburg 2012).
Example: Cognizant uses a matric organisational structure as all employees are also
involved in the decision making process (Pearlson, Saunders and Galletta 2016).
Divisional organisational structure consists of parallel teams. Each of this team has
their spate product line-up or service (Cosh and Hughes 2012). The main advantage of the
structure is it allows a team to concentrate upon single product or service with a specific
leadership structure that works in favour of major strategic objectives. This common objective
helps in the development of common culture and this help in the promotion of higher morale and