Fundamentals of Management, 11/e

What Contemporary Organizational Designs Can Managers Use?

Lean. Flexible. Innovative.

Managers are finding that the traditional designs often aren’t appropriate for today’s increasingly dynamic and complex environment. Instead, organizations need to be lean, flexible, and innovative—that is, more organic. So managers are finding creative ways to structure and organize work by using designs such as team-based structures, matrix and project structures, and boundaryless structures.30 (See Exhibit 8–10 for a summary of these designs.)

Exhibit 8–10

Contemporary Organization Designs

Source: Robbins, Stephen P., Coulter, Mary, Management, 13th Ed., ...