An organizational structure organizes a company’s activities. Explore four types of organizational structures: functional, divisional, flatarchy, and matrix.

Organizational structure is one of the keys to maximizing efficiency and productivity at your workplace, and it can have tangential benefits such as boosting employee motivation. Unlike a traditional ...

In contrast to traditional organization structures that group employees under fairly rigid reporting relationships, a matrix management organizational system groups employees together by work group or ...

Every organization, no matter its size, has an abundance of moving pieces. Ensuring that all those pieces move in perfect synchrony starts by devising an organizational structure that represents the ...

I am not a command-and-control leader. Though the hierarchical pyramid works for some, I prefer a framework that invites collaboration, flexibility and balance. This structure radiates decision-making ...

Matrix management came about as organizations recognized that, in an increasingly complex business world, they needed to provide balance between the key drivers of their business and find a more ...

An organizational structure defines the scope of acceptable behavior within an organization, its lines of authority and accountability, and to some extent the organization’s relationship with its ...

My first rather unsettling introduction to the now widely prevalent matrix structure in organizations was in the late 1990s. I worked for a large global engineering firm then and headed its supply ...

In his decades-long career in tech journalism, Dennis has written about nearly every type of hardware and software. He was a founding editor of Ziff Davis’ Computer Select in the 1990s, senior ...