Dr. Valerie Caines Case Study: Blue & Green Design Technology Analysis

This case study analysis examines the organizational structure of the Blue & Green Design Technology Company, which is facing challenges due to its small scale and lack of a hierarchical structure. The analysis, based on the provided case study and references, highlights the absence of specialization, undefined processes, and unclear responsibilities as key issues. The solution recommends developing a proper hierarchical structure with a clear chain of command, improved communication, and task specialization to foster growth and adaptability. The analysis emphasizes the importance of change management tools and provides recommendations to improve the company's management and productivity. This analysis draws upon the work of Bratton and Gold, and Guest to support the recommendations for improving the company's organizational structure.

3. Lack of Organization Structure
Analysis: Blue & Green operates at the small scale level as the company has 10 employees, due
to that there is no hierarchical structure. From the analysis of fishbone diagram it is known that
there is lack of specialization across the departments, flow of processes are not defined and
authority and responsibilities are not appropriately defined to employees. Bratton and Gold,2017,
stated that all this resultant in low productivity, high employee turnover and impact directly on
decision making ability. Due to all these issues or problems changes cannot be implemented in
the company.
Recommendation: It is recommended that Blue & Green Company should develop a proper
hierarchical structure this help in to adapt changes in the company easily. Further, chain of
command should be designed that includes who should report to whom this leads to coordination
between employees and departments, ensure accountability of actions performed by employees
and will benefit the company (Bratton and Gold,2017). According to Guest,2017, hierarchal
structure includes communication responsibilities to each employee with the information about
whom to report. Moreover in order to improve the structure tasks should be assigned to
employees as per expertize that leads to specialization in processes with that business can expand
and grow in near future (Guest, 2017). In a nutshell, the company can implement this when lack
of organization structure leads to poor management and low productivity as improving its
organization structure by developing hierarchy, strong communication channel and chain of
command help in to manage change in the organization.
References

Bratton, J. and Gold, J., 2017. Human resource management: theory and practice. Palgrave.
Guest, D.E., 2017. Human resource management and employee well‐being: Towards a new
analytic framework. Human Resource Management Journal, 27(1), pp.22-38.