INDIVIDUAL CASE STUDY ANALYSIS REPORT

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INDIVIDUALCASE STUDY ANALYSIS REPORT
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Summary:Summarise the main issues identified in the case study that is relevant to the topic.
Organization name: Boeing Dreamliner
Matrix structure: It’s a kind of structure that forms parallel lines of authority, that takes into account both
product and functional departmentalisation.
Virtual Organization: In order to compete, the small business organization outsources major parts of its
process to other organization. In structural terms, such structure are strictly centralised with very minimal
departmentalisation 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, higher span of control. The
offshore employee’s difficulty in understanding the multilingual format and provision for option 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 is a complex structure with a mix of organic, mechanistic and boundary less structure. The
complexity of supply chain further complicates this structure.
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 in regard to
performance.
Advantages: Describe the advantages and explains how they are relevant to the topic.
Matrix:
Functional: Functional departmentalization helps enable forming of the entire specialist in a group. It also
facilitates acquiring and sharing of specialist resource around the product, while minimizing the workforce
required.
Product: The benefit is just the other way round of functional one, with some disadvantages. It helps in
bringing improved coordination between specialist so as to complete the task on time and within the
constrained budget. The matrix takes the advantage of both functional and product departmentalisation
while minimizing their weaknesses (Fahad 2019).
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