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This Key Concept Exercise requires you to reflect on the degree to which your own organization, or an alternative organization with which you are familiar, has adopted a structure that meets the requirements of the philosophy expressed in the above proposition. To what extent does the organization’s current structure support a future in which continuous and iterative change is a dominant feature?

In the introduction to this Key Concept Exercise, you have considered the need for organizations to continuously manage a sustainable growth and development cycle. This Key Concept Exercise requires you to critically analyses the extent to which your own employing organization, or another organization with which you are familiar, is successfully meeting the management challenges this growth and development cycle implies. Your analysis should be based on answers to these questions:

What organizational structure has been adopted in order to assign levels of authority and to establish reporting lines? What are the advantages and disadvantages of this structure compared with alternative structures that might have been chosen?

How is this organizational structure reflected in the decision-making processes that apply to the design and implementation of significant organizational change?

What impacts do the decision-making processes in this organization have on the way that the key functional activities of the organization are performed?

What impacts do the decision-making processes in this organization have on the organization’s relationships with its external stakeholders?

In your analysis, address the extent to which the organization’s structure and decision-making processes are effective, and identify any specific actions that would improve its ability to meet growth and development cycle challenges.