Unit 5 - Individual Project Assignment OverviewType: Individual ProjectUnit:  Review Due Date:  Wed,5/26/19 Grading Type: NumericPoints Possible:  200 Points Earned:  Deliverable Length:  1,8

Unit 5 - Individual Project 

Assignment Overview

Type: Individual Project

Unit:  Review 

Due Date:  Wed,5/26/19 

Grading Type: Numeric

Points Possible:  200 

Points Earned:  

Deliverable Length:  1,800 Words 

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Assignment Description 

In the Individual Project, you will study the following organizational design problem. Your task is to assess the problem and recommend an organizational design structure for the company described. You will also provide a recommendation for how the design will be sustained. To assist you in the analysis and recommendation, you will answer the questions below in your group discussions.

Problem

A 60-year-old engineer and his 45-year-old wife founded a software company, ABC Software Corporation, four years ago and are its sole owners and managers. Because of their use of a unique software design, the corporation quickly obtained a highly profitable market niche. The wife's charm and diplomacy helped build a customer loyalty that is seldom found in the industry, causing the company to grow to $80 plus million in sales and 300 employees. The company has one major multinational customer. ABC Software Corporation is located in the United States in a large metropolitan area. It grew organically, and its informal structure is a haphazard maze of interlocking personal relationships based on friendships and loyalty to the company's two owners. The employees are all very bright, self-taught, and technically savvy. Only one employee besides the engineer and the accountant has a college degree.

The two owners have hired your team to help them determine what kind of organizational design they need to put in place and what kind of training their employees need to function in the new design.

The first thing you will do is work with your team to discuss and answer the following four groups of questions.

Preliminary Questions for the Design Team

Answer the following preliminary questions with your team before proceeding further:

• What do      you need to know before beginning the redesign process? 
• How will      you go about determining the needs of the individuals in the organization?      
• What are      the critical needs that the new organization must address? 
• What do      you see as the major problems facing your task as organizational      designers? 
• What are      the organizational problems that the redesign must address and solve? 
• How should      your team organize for accomplishing this task? 
• How will      your team work together to accomplish the redesign? 

What have you learned by answering these questions?

Diagnostic Questions for the Design Team

Answer the following diagnostic questions with your team before proceeding further:

• What do      you believe is the general business environment that the ABC Corporation      is operating in? 
• What is      the company’s task environment? 
• What do      you believe the company’s strategy is (if it has one), and what do you      believe the strategy might be? 
• If you      cannot determine or articulate a company strategy, then what do you      believe the strategy should be? 
• Given what      you know about the situation, what are the ABC Corporation's technology,      structure, measurement, and human resource systems? 
• From what      you know, what is the organizational culture likely to be? 

What have you learned by answering these questions?

Design Questions for the Team

Answer the following design questions with your team before proceeding further:

• What are      the critical design principles that need to be addressed? 
• What are      the advantages, disadvantages, and contingencies that any design being      considered must address? 
• Which of      the formal designs (e.g., functional, divisional, network, matrix,      process, or customer-centric) would obviously be inappropriate and why? 
• How would      the current informal design affect any design the team proposes? 

What have you learned by answering these questions?

Redesign Questions for the Team

Answer the following redesign questions with your team before proceeding further:

• What is      the most appropriate design? 
• Why did      you select this as the most appropriate design? 
• What are      the advantages, disadvantages, and contingencies of the redesign selected?      
• What      organizational problems or issues will the design supposedly solve? 
• What      unintended consequences might occur because of the new design? 

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