What Are Today’s Organizational Design Challenges?

  1. 8-4 Discuss the design challenges faced by today’s organizations.

As managers look for organizational designs that will best support and facilitate employees doing their work efficiently and effectively, there are certain challenges they must contend with. These include keeping employees connected, managing global structural issues, building a learning organization, and designing flexible work arrangements.

How Do You Keep Employees Connected?

Many organizational design concepts were developed during the twentieth century when work tasks were fairly predictable and constant, most jobs were full-time and continued indefinitely, and work was done at an employer’s place ...

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