An organizational structure organizes a company’s activities. Explore four types of organizational structures: functional, divisional, flatarchy, and matrix.

Who Are They & What Do They Do? The Organizational Effective (OE) team works across IT to help support HBS IT’s operational and strategic priorities with specific functional oversight of IT ...

This approach to organizational effectiveness continues to be embraced by companies in nearly every industry. It’s reliable, repeatable, and results oriented — but also not without limitations, ...

A company can start out by using one of several organizational structures. However, companies can sometimes increase their effectiveness using multiple organizational structures. Other companies may ...

Show me an employer with a distrustful workforce, and I’ll show you a ship headed for rough waters if it’s not sinking already. When employees distrust leadership to a substantial degree, it affects ...

How effective is your company, division or department? I’m not merely referring to the efficient use of resources such as money, technology and materials. Organizational effectiveness is broader than ...

The American Public Human Services Association, or APHSA, defines organizational effectiveness as "a systematic and systemic approach to continuously improving an organization's performance, ...

The Organizational Effectiveness group within Boston College’s Office of Employee Development (OED) consults with individual employees, teams, and divisions to optimize performance and align people, ...

Westerman, George, F. Warren McFarlan, and Marco Iansiti. "Organization Design and Effectiveness over the Innovation Life Cycle." Organization Science 17, no. 2 (March–April 2006): 230–238.

There is a lot of discussion in IT circles about creating effective organizations. But what does that really mean and how do you go about creating one? According to Charles Araujo, president and ...