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Organizational structures

Organizational structures

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Organizational structures

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- Great businesses depend on creative people with innovative ideas to help them remain competitive. Having a platform to communicate those ideas and the support to implement them starts with understanding the organization's structure and knowing who can help make things happen. Let's explore some of the options for organizational structures. Traditional structures are functional, divisional, matrix, and hybrid. A functional structure separates the organization into different departments. In this type of organization, you may hear employees say Contact the Accounting Department to process that invoice or I believe we need to get Research and Development involved before we launch the Marketing Campaign. In other words, the reporting structure is delineated by department, where a Sales Manager may report to a Sales Director who then reports to the Vice President of Sales. A divisional structure divides the organization by product lines or geographic regions. In this type of company, you…

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