Organizational Structure and Culture: A Team Management Analysis

This report provides an analysis of organizational structure, focusing on its impact on team management and effectiveness, using Arabian Consulting Engineering Centre Al Khafji as a case study. It discusses the functional organizational structure, its advantages in team management, resource allocation, and employee motivation. The report further explores the importance of organizational culture in shaping employee behavior, commitment, and adherence to organizational values, particularly in a diverse workforce. Recommendations are offered for improving organizational structure to foster better relationships between departments and enhance customer relationships. Similarly, recommendations are made to improve organizational culture for better employee motivation and productivity. The report concludes that organizational culture and structure should aim to bring skilled employees together within a culture that promotes retention and happiness, emphasizing team orientation and commitment.

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According to Ashkenas et al. (2015), organizational structure involves a well-
demarcated method that decides on the different departments and allocated tasks in order to
achieve proper co-ordination. An efficient organizational structure would facilitate for better
flow of information, decision making process as well as conflict resolution strategies.
Generally an organization tend to become complex in its operational processes and therefore
with the implementation of an organizational structure the organizational achieves
professional efficiency, well demarcated hierarchal level, coordination as well as proper
harmony amongst various departments (Alvesson and Sveningsson 2015). At its core level
organizational structure is the layout of the hierarchical level dealing with several units and
positions within the particular organization and therefore it helps in achieving performance
evaluation, flow of information and to some extent employee motivation.
Organizational Structure and Team Effective Management
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Workplace
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Surrounding
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Figure: Framework of Organizational Culture
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Arabian Consulting Engineering Centre Al Khafji is one of the well-organized and
successful engineering firm that has striven to align its organizational that has left a positive
influence on its product development and team management. Arabian Consulting follows the
Functional Structure that adheres to the process of grouping people with similar job related
skills and knowledge under one department and thereafter assigns managers to look over and
supervise these people (Brooks 2009). For instance in the firms, matters concerning finance
and administration are placed under one particular department that handles budgeting,
allocation of resources, looks over expenses and acquisition. One of the many advantages
bestowed by such a system on the engineering consultancy firms is that each and every
department is answerable to the higher authority and the functional managers assigned to
each department are infused with responsibility. Their responsibilities include looking after
overall productivity of the department, taking part in decision making process, acting as a
bridge between the senior management for the purpose of implementing strategies that would
transform the goals into plans to make business thrive. In the functional organizational
structure the members of each department are accountable to the manager (Northouse 2017).
In the case of a functional organizational structure, the team management takes place
in a smooth manner since the roles and responsibilities of every teams are fixed and there is
no confusion regarding the hierarchy level of the organization. The organizational structure
further paves the way for an extremely smooth functioning of departments since
communication within the various team members in a department is achieved in a
harmonious manner (Morris et al. 2006).

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The organizational structure of the engineering consultancy firm is structured in this
way since with each different project management model requires a different approach in the
organizational structure and decision making parameters. It helps in demonstrating the best
way in conducting major operations since members with similar skills are grouped together in
Arabian Consulting Engineering Centre Al Khafji it is fundamental on the part of the
engineering consultancy firms to create such an architecture within the organization so as to
maintain the flow of superior quality performance. In case the structure is getting misaligned
it can have a lead to a saturated growth and stifle efficiency and creativity. This would mean
for a huge disintegration the entire organization and incurring of huge loss (Brooks 2009).
In this type of an organizational structure the various project teams are fitted in a
systematic manner which enables in a smooth completion of rigorous tasks. This is possible
because in a functional structure of organization, there is sufficient room for allocating
project teams that highly specialize on one particular area and is therefore different in its
goals and approaches. In these cases the organizational structure helps the teams to operate
according to their specific goals, hierarchical structure with the help of innovation and
creativity. As there is no over-lapping between several teams, the members can therefore
work without conflicts (Morris et al 2006). In this type of organizational structure the various
project teams are assigned with a head which in turn provides the team with a formal
environment that would foster management and collaboration. Team based management has
also helped the firm to equip the various projects with talent and resources, devising
improved strategies and ensures that the members are solving complex problems in a flexible
manner.
Since famous engineering consultancy firms like Arabian Consulting Engineering
Centre Al Khafji tend to take a number of projects simultaneously it is imperative that the
departments have sufficient resources to provide in each of the projects. The functional

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structure in an organization provides for better allocation of resources, technology which
subtly hints that members from each team would be available during moments of crisis. It has
enhanced employee participation, sharing and cooperation that have accelerated information
sharing and decision-making processes of the organization. It is essential for an employee to
show a positive behavior while working and which can be prompted by an effective
organizational structure.

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In case of functional structure the project teams, the organization achieves
steady growth since the organization is more able to emphasize on each team, notice their
gaps and shortages. Every team is fitted in such a manner as to achieve maximum flexibility
and utilization of staff members since the structure allows for each expert to be assembled in
such a manner so as they can exchange opinions and knowledge relevant to the projects. The
departments also helps members to advance in a positive manner in their respective domains.
The functional structure that persists within the consultancy firm Arabian Consulting
Engineering Centre Al Khafji has ensured that the employees are remaining motivated
towards delivering their best and improve team reputation. As per data, it has been revealed
that with the help of this structure the individuals are able to keep pace with organization’s
objectives and goals since they are permitted to establish more uniform goals.
Functional
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Figure: structure of Functional Organization
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Recommendations for Organizational Structure:
1. In case of team management and structure functional structure of an organization ca
in one way or other hinder the free relationship between the different departments. In
many cases companies with this type of organizational structure only allows the top-
most authority to possess a whole picture of the different departments and their
working. With Arabian Consulting Engineering Centre Al Khafji this should be taking
adequate care of in order to avoid unnecessary growth of conflicts or distrusts
amongst the team members. One of the many reasons to avoid certain scenarios is that
it could lead to loss of potential employees thereby hampering productivity.
2. In an engineering consultancy firm customer relationship is one of the important
sectors. The strictness of the above stated structure should be avoided as this may lead
to a lack of transparency in between the departments relating customer complaints and
transaction. Organizational structure is needed to manifest unique image of the
organization within the minds of its employees

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Organizational Culture and Team Management
A successful organization like Arabian Consulting Engineering Centre Al
Khafji is responsible to provide adequate care to the culture it is harboring since it is the
most important construct to have an influence on individual performance, employee
commitment and their adherence to the values and objectives of the organization Arabian
Consulting Engineering Centre Al Khafji has employees belonging from different ethnic
and cultural background and therefore it is essential for an organization to enumerate single
set of norms and values that every individual will abide by in a combined manner. Moreover
with the help of organizational culture every new employee would need to ingratiate within
themselves the core beliefs and principles of the organization (Northouse 2017).
Arabian Consulting Engineering Centre Al Khafji has the organizational
culture of hierarchy in which case the different corporate levels and structures are well-
demarcated within the organization. There are number of advantages attached with hierarchy
culture such as employees have a clear notion about the different level of hierarchies within
the organization since the responsibilities of every individual and authorities are clear. In
Arabian Consulting Engineering Centre Al Khafji due to the organizational culture, the
employees are easily motivated to perform in an outstanding manner for the evolution of their
respective departments (O'Neill, Beauvais and Scholl 2016). Being an engineering
consultancy firm Arabian Consulting Engineering Centre Al Khafji it needs a strict
command on the various departments closely intertwined with the firm to ensure that they are
completing maximum number of projects. The hierarchical culture allows ample opportunity
for specialization to achieve maximum efficiency within the organization.
Organizational culture of Arabian Consulting Engineering Centre Al Khafji and its
effect on employees

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For the growth of a positive behavior from the employees it is fundamental for them
to possess motivation, opportunity and abilities in order to participate across several groups
and departments (O'Neill, Beauvais and Scholl 2016). The opportunity to share knowledge
and experience has brought the employees closer and helped in generating a climate for
sharing knowledge and information (Project Management Institute 2017).
Organizational culture prohibits the rampant occurring of misconduct within the
organization which allows an employee to perform better maintaining a consistency. It is
evident that an employee’s satisfaction level plays a huge role in the organization so the
culture should be aligned in such a manner as to assure that the employees are happy and
focused on delivering the best(Brooks 2009).
Recommendation for organizational culture
1. Effective organizational culture also impacts on employee behavior which consists of
what people are doing and how they are doing in an organization. Organizational
culture in should always be maintained in a way so as it plays a key role in
maintaining employee motivation and productivity since the behavior of one
employee is simultaneously affecting other employees as well.
2. Arabian Consulting Engineering Centre Al Khafji should check whether its culture is
influencing in decision making, performance and management and personality of an
employee. There are also other ways by which organizational culture affects
employee performance. The firm should therefore recommend the best culture to
achieve employee encouragement. The employees will strive to achieve better with
the help of aligning the company’s goals and objectives with their own (Northouse
2017).

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Therefore it becomes clearly evident that organizational culture as well as structure
should aim to bring the potential employees with relevant skills together within a culture that
would also help in employee retention and happiness. Organizational culture should
furthermore also remain focused on team orientation which means the commitment that the
culture has towards a team.

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