The Matrix
A matrix design superimposes product groups onto these departments.
What are Functional Departments?
Within this design, people float from project to project.
What is as necessitated by skills/demands?
A virtual organization has little or no formal structure and exists in response to these.
What are Unique Situations (or Needs)?
This organization works to facilitate lifelong personal development for whom?
What are All Employees?
The stage of the life cycle characterized by resource expansion.
What is Youth?
This structure type means a person reports to multiple managers.
What is a Multiple-Command Structure?
Team organizations have little or no underlying hierarchy of this type.
What is Functional Hierarchy?
Managers in virtual firms bring these in to meet unique demands.
What are Temporary Workers (or leased facilities)?
Learning organizations continually transform to respond to this.
What are Changing Demands and Needs?
Gradual growth evolving into stability defines this life cycle stage.
What is Midlife?
The matrix design is often used when there is pressure to share these.
What are Shared Resources?
At Cypress Semiconductor, units are split if they become this.
What is Too Large?
These organizations typically have only a handful of these employees.
What are Permanent Employees?
This is the focus of a learning organization for its employees.
What is Lifelong Learning (and Personal Development)?
Maturity is a period of stability that may evolve into this.
What is Decline?
Matrix designs automatically create these types of relationships.
What are Lateral Relationships?
The team organization approach enables changes in this.
What is Direction?
A virtual organization might consist of an in-house project staff and this type of network.
What is an Online Network (of industry professionals)?
Royal Dutch Shell focuses on immersing people in these experiences.
What are Shared Experiences?
Birth, Youth, Midlife, and Maturity make up this many stages.
What is Four?
Team members in a matrix are often highly committed for this reason.
What is Decision-Making (they assume a major role)?
This is the primary reason to use the team approach for projects.
What is to utilize the right people with the right skill sets?
Virtual organizations are often characterized by this type of headquarters facility.
What is a Small/Administrative Facility?
Learning organizations promote this design populated by common knowledge.
What is an Organic Design?
Janelle's firm, experiencing international growth and gradual stability, is in this stage.
What is Midlife?