You have recently been hired as a new manager for a failing division in a company. The product line is outdated and losing market share, interdepartmental communication is adversarial, and competition for corporate funding is fierce. As a new manager, how are you going to turn things around?
Your first task as the new manager is to write a 2-3 page plan for changing the organizational structure of the failing division, incorporating the following elements:
* Explain how you would address each of the 3 main problems in the organization: outdated product lines, adversarial communication, and competition for internal resources. Thinking about organizational structures reviewed in the text, which one (or ones) do you think would be most suited to this organization, and why?
* What steps would you suggest to manage the transition from the old organizational structure to the new?
* How would you assess the external environment and integrate this into the turn-around plan?