New Consulting Business Task 1

A1: For my new consulting business, I have decided to go with the teams organizational structure. Using the teams organizational structure, I can hire employees who have similar skillsets that also fall in line with the mission of my business. The mission of my business is to “facilitate sustainable social, economic, and environmental development opportunities for the good of businesses in the community.” This structure is going to enable my employees work together towards the overall common goal of the business while also having the flexibility to change over time if necessary. This structure is important for our company in order to enable communication and collaboration among our employees. A2: For the functions or departments, my consulting company is divided into three teams. Social, economic, and environmental, and each of these three teams consist of employees who have specific skillsets in these functional areas. This ensures that each team consists of highly knowledgeable employees who can perform at a high level of productivity. In relation to chain of command, centralized/decentralized and level of formality my company is going to follow the hierarchical structure. In this structure the employees in each department will report to its respective department manager who will then report up to the CEO. In keeping with a traditional hierarchical structure all employees will know who they report to and in so communication will be more effective. Although we are following a hierarchical chain of command, we will function more decentralized to keep decisions more collaborative. This allows managers and employees to work together on the day to day and for upper management to worry more on the big picture. We plan to be more relaxed in the way of formalities at our company. No need to call people by their titles, but instead they can all refer to each other by first names. This allows everyone to feel equal. B: My company will utilize the scientific management theory. The focus of this theory is to improve efÏciency, especially labor productivity. With having a teams structure within my company, we are hiring individuals who have specific skillsets in specific areas. This makes our company much more efÏcient when it comes to labor productivity since our employees are specialized in these areas, rather than having employees who have varying skillsets that differ from each other. C1: Our overarching goal is to raise our city’s ranking in the “Most Sustainable and Innovative Communities” list from the top 20% of all U.S. communities to the top 10%. With using the teams organizational structure, we can keep each of our three teams on track by setting specific goals for them. This allows all employees and teams a clear idea of what is required of them daily. These department goals will all funnel down to the company’s main objective. C2: A different structure that our company could have also decided to follow instead of teams would be the matrix structure. With the matrix structure, two or more departments from complimentary areas come together to work together on a project. The disadvantage of this structure is that by having teams of different areas come together it can sometimes be hard for these teams to communicate efÏciently to come up with o a resolution. You may get to the point where team A thinks their idea is better than team B and vice versa which then leads to multiple disagreements. With having teams of people who have similar skillsets you also have the ability for better collaboration which is why we went with teams instead of a matrix structure