You have decided to create a consulting business to address increasing market needs for sustainability and innovation in the community.
Task 1: Organizational Structure
Scenario
- Be a mission-driven, for-profit organization that will create partnerships that result in sustainable changes for the community.
- Achieve a level of success so your consulting firm can raise your city’s ranking in the “Most Sustainable and Innovative Communities” list from the top 20% of all U.S. communities to the top 10%.
- Assess the sustainability and innovation needs of 30 businesses in the local community in the first year. You will then share the results of those assessments with all business stakeholders to generate feedback that will be used to develop and implement proposals for consulting.
- Hire three university students as part-time interns to help you develop an organizational structure.
Before you design a business venture plan that includes its organizational design, you will identify how the business will generate revenue. You are interested in seeking investors in the business community who want to take a leadership role in the business and its decision-making.
You are excited about this opportunity and begin considering the organizational structure for your consulting business.
Note: Additional employees may be hired in the future.
A. Describe the organizational structure you would choose for the consulting business in the scenario by doing the following:
- Describe the main features of one of the following organizational structures and how this structure applies to the scenario:
- functional
- divisional
- matrix
- teams
2. Using the chosen organizational structure described in part A1, explain how each of the following four factors works within the chosen organizational structure for the consulting business in the scenario:
- functions or departments
- chain of command
- centralized or decentralized structure
- level of formality
B. Describe one of the following organizational theories, including how it can be used to support the organizational structure described in part A1:
- scientific management
- bureaucratic
- administrative
- neoclassical
- modern
- contingency/situational
C. Explain how organizational structure can impact business effectiveness by doing the following:
- Identify one of the goals from the scenario for the consulting business.
- Explain how the chosen organizational structure from part A1 can impact the consulting business’s ability to meet the goal identified in part C1.
D. Acknowledge sources, using in-text citations and references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or summarized.
E. Demonstrate professional communication in the content and presentation of your submission.
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