rue or False Specialization is a positive accomplishment and never has any negative consequences. Most smaller and newer organizations departmentalize by function. Delegation is necessary for the completion of a manager's work because a manager will usually not be able to do everything. In a centralized organization, management consciously attempts to spread authority widely across various organization

A New Kind of Structure Admit it. Sometimes the projects you’re working on (school, work, or both) can get pretty boring and monotonous. Wouldn’t it be great to have a magic button you could push to get someone else to do that boring, time-consuming stuff? At Pfizer, that “magic button” is a reality for a large number of employees. As a global pharmaceutical company, Pfizer is continually looking for ways to help employees be more efficient and effective. The company’s senior director of organizational effectiveness found that the highly educated MBAs it hired to “develop strategies and innovate were instead Googling and making PowerPoints.”79 Indeed, internal studies conducted to find out just how much time its valuable talent was spending on menial tasks was startling. The average Pfizer employee was spending 20 percent to 40 percent of his or her time on support work (creating documents, typing notes, doing research, manipulating data, scheduling meetings) and only 60 percent to 80…

If a company wants to move to a matrix organization that will retain the efficiencies of the functional organization but also groups employees by product teams. How can the organization manage the emotions of employees or in what ways do you think they should manage these emotions to get the desired outcome?

As a boss of your own company, What will be your span of control? Is it centralized or decentralized authority?  or formal or informal? How will you not become a bureaucracy?