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You are a top manager of your company. Your company has been experiencing increased competition in the market. You have been charged with preparing a plan to change the company's structure to allow you to compete better, and you have decided on two main changes.

First, you plan to reengineer the company and move from a multidivisional structure to one in which cross-functional product teams become responsible for developing new products that will be sold by all the divisions.

Second, you have decided to implement a total quality management program to raise quality and decentralize decision making authority to the teams and make them responsible for achieving higher quality and lower costs. Thus the changes will disrupt role relationships at both the divisional and functional levels.

Questions:

1) Discuss what difficulties you foresee at the organizational and individual level that you will encounter in implementing this new changed structure. Which do you think will be the most important obstacles to overcome?

2) Discuss some ways you can overcome obstacles to change, to help your organization move to its desired future state.