Today the application of basic structures depends the organisations situation to adopt different structures and outlines the symptoms of structural misalignment. Further new approaches to organizing and managing people have become crucial for companies to attain durable competitive advantages in the 21st century. Whereas some organisations will prefer vertical structure based on their situation, others will deplore horizontal structure. Now having had knowledge on these basic structures, attempt all the following questions: a. Explain why firms managers implementing horizontal structure accept that the benefits associated with the structure are having culture of transparency, shared responsibility, and employee enablement. (6 MARKS) b. What do suggest is the managers role in a horizontally enabled firm? (4 MARKS) c. With regards to organisations situation, Burns & Stalker have suggested that organisations can be categorize along a continuum ranging from mechanistic design to an organic design. With your knowledge on this continuum, different between mechanistic and organic organisations.