The most common organizational structure in business is a hierarchy of functional departments and units through which work flows in order to achieve maximum performance. Its alignment enables ...

Small businesses often grow large enough that the owner needs to appoint or hire staff members to oversee other employees. For many decades, the easiest way to organize a small business was to follow ...

Most organizational redesigns are intended to change how people work to improve business performance, but new research from ...

Flat organizations reduce management layers to boost communication, agility and morale, but they may struggle with role clarity and career advancement.

This is going to be a five part post that explores various types of organizational structures that either already exist in today's business landscape or are starting to emerge as viable options for ...

Picture the most successful companies in the world; they have one thing in common — an effective organizational structure. But what exactly does that entail and how can it make or break a business? If ...

Back in 1980 when Bill Drayton founded Ashoka – the nonprofit organization that helped establish the idea and the practice of social entrepreneurship – he was motivated by a core insight: that ...

Continued from “From Digital Dysfunction to Success.” This is part two of a three-part series. So what’s the best way to manage digital at your organization? While no two organizations look the same, ...

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 ...