organization familiar present items relate organization: • Describe organizational structure selected organization. Compare contrast structure organizational structures. • Evaluate organizational functions ( marketing, finance, human resources, operations) influence determine organizational structure selected organization.
My company choice is Microsoft, mainly because it best reflects one of the newest and most used organizational approaches in the 20th and 21st century. There are several interesting considerations worth pointing out in the case of Microsoft.
Microsoft uses a team-based organization, often combined or embedded on a project-based approach. The idea of a team-based organizational structure is to synergize individual skills and competencies into a larger, more overarching framework (Thareja, 2007). In the case of Microsoft and, in fact, of many other software producers, the team-based organizational structure is also determine by the necessities that arrive in software development and the particularities of the different phases in this process that require employees with particular skills at each phase of development.
As such, each project would include different phases, such as architectural design, specifications (technical and user), actual development, testing, plus a project manager (or more) to coordinate all these actions into a unitary effort. Each individual is involved at the different stages of the project development, but, at the same, coordination needs to be ensured at all stages, both horizontally (between each team members) and vertically (with other branches of the company, so that a particular project can be coordinated with the development of others. No use launching a new version of Microsoft Project, unless this is coordinated...
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