Certain organizational structures may work well in some situations and yet be completely ineffective under a different set of circumstances. Consider the following very different organizational architectures for a firm: (a) A strictly hierarchical top down organizational structure where all decisions are made at the top and are then carried out by those on the lower rungs of the organizational chart. (b) A decentralized structure where different kinds of decisions are made by separate teams working independently of one another.
Write a short essay providing examples of situations where each of these structures is likely to be effective as well as situations where that same structure is likely to be ineffective in achieving the organizational goals of the firms in question.
Note that this essay assignment will be reviewed for originality using Turnitin. While you do not have to conform to the full writing guidelines that were posted for the term paper, note that the same general strictures on originality apply:
ORIGINALITY:
The assignment must be your own original work and it must be written specifically for this class. The assignment will be checked for originality using turnitin.com. Any citation omissions will affect your assignment grade, but significantly plagiarized assignments will receive a grade of zero, with no exceptions and with no do-overs.
CITATIONS & CITATION STYLE:
You must cite all your sources.
PROPER QUOTATIONS & QUOTATION MARKS:
You must use quotation marks, or else use indented blocks, to identify all quotations. It is OK to paraphrase and not use direct quotes only when your language is completely different from the original, but you must still give proper credit to your sources. It is not OK to just insert a few words of your own into another writers text and then appropriate it without using quotation marks.
TEXT BOOK:
Brickley, Smith and Zimmerman, Managerial Economics and Organizational Architecture: 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th or 7th edition. (New York: McGraw Hill).
