Assignment:
Question 1. Select a company that you are familiar with and evaluate its current structure based on the traditional and emerging characteristics. Describe the areas in which the company has room for improvement and outline how those improvements could be achieved.
Question 2. Make a prediction as to how the organizational characteristics that were listed in the attached document will evolve and change over the next 50 years. Create another element to the organizational characteristics and discuss its significance to the evolution and change process.
EMERGING ORGANIZATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE 21ST CENTURY CORPORATION
TRADITIONAL CHARACTERISTICS EMERGING CHARACTERISTICS
1. Goal-directed
2. Price-focused
3. Product quality mindset
4. Product driven
5. Shareholder focused
6. Finance oriented
7. Efficient
8. Hierarchical
9. Functional
10. Rigid
11. Domestic
12. Vertically integrated 1. Vision-directed
2. Value-focused
3. Total quality mindset
4. Customer driven
5. Stakeholder focused
6. Speed oriented
7. Innovative
8. Flat
9. Cross-functional
10. Flexible
11. Global
12. Networked