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3. Types of organizational structures (Connect, Perform)

Use your knowledge of organizational structure to select the term that best completes each sentence.

If you have two bosses, one your functional manager, and one your project team leader, you are working in a matrix organizational structure.

Use your knowledge of organizational structure to select the term that best fits each scenario or description.

If you are working in a consulting company and need to form short-term cross-functional and cross-level project teams to serve client needs, what type of organizational structure should you use?

A lattice structure

A bureaucratic structure

A team-based structure

Read the following brief case study and answer the question that follows.

You have recently been assigned responsibility for restructuring your organization. Your company has grown considerably over the past five years, and company leaders recognize that change is needed. The company was founded ten years ago and this is the first time any attention has been paid to how employees are grouped. You understand the importance of the decisions that you are about to make and sit down at your desk to reflect on what the company needs going forward.

You decide to group employees based on the products that they work on. What basis for grouping employees will you use?

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