Readings
Use your Designing Organizations text to complete the following:
Read Chapter 3, “Single-Business Strategy and Functional Organization,” pages 57–88.
Read Chapter 4, “Designing the Lateral Organization,” pages 89–106.
Remember, your e-books are available for reading via VitalSource Bookshelf. You can access Bookshelf from the left Course Tools menu or
via the optional downloaded application.
Library Guide
You will be required to search the Capella University Library for completing some of the assignments in this course. Review the following
library guide, which has been created to assist you with using the Capella library for research:
Organizational Structure, Learning, and Performance Library Guide. http://capellauniversity.libguides.com/BUS4013
To successfully complete this learning unit, you will be expected to:
Distinguish a functional organization structure from other organization structural types.
Explain the significance and application of lateral coordination processes within organizations.
Apply common modern organizational structures, including functional, matrix, network, and virtual structures.
Structural Design Paper
Resources
Website icon Structural Design Paper Scoring Guide.
Website icon APA Style and Format.
Website icon Organizational Structure, Learning, and Performance Library Guide.
Overview
Modern organizations can take on many different types of design. The days of the traditional functional organization are rapidly giving
way to project-based matrix, networked, and even virtual designs. This assignment asks you to explore four types of organizational
structure. You will delve deeper into one of them by explaining how it can be used in an organization to attain high performance.
Completing this paper will help you see how structure is determined by strategy in the quest for high performance.
Instructions
To prepare for this assessment, use the Capella library to research each of the following designs:
Functional organization.
Matrix organization.
Networked organization.
Virtual organization.
You will find that the Capella library contains a vast number of articles on each of these organization designs. Use the Organizational
Structure, Learning, and Performance Library Guide (given in the resources) for doing the library research.
In a 2–3-page paper:
Define each of the four designs listed above and then identify a real-world organization example for each.
Choose one of the organizational designs from the four and describe how you would use that design to create an organizational structure
that would lead to high performance.
Submission Requirements
Your paper should meet the following requirements:
Written communication: Written communication should be free of errors that detract from the overall message.
APA format: Resources and citations should be in current APA format. Be sure to include title and reference pages.
Length: 2–3 typed, double-spaced pages, not including the title and reference pages.
Font and font size: arial, 11 point.
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