The development trend of enterprise organizational structure and new organizational structure form

From the point of view of the actual situation in the United States to study, the development of enterprise organizational structure presents a new trend, which is characterized by: 1, the center of gravity bipolar; 2, the shape of the flattening; 3, the operation of the flexibilized; 4, the structure of the dynamic. Team organizations, dynamic alliances, virtual enterprises and other new forms of organizational structure emerged one after another, specifically, with these characteristics of the new organizational structure form:

First, horizontal type of organization. Horizontal type of organizational structure, weakening the vertical hierarchy, breaking stereotypical departmental boundaries, focusing on horizontal cooperation and coordination. Its characteristics are: (1) the organizational structure is built around the workflow rather than around the departmental functions, the traditional departmental boundaries are broken; (2) reduce the vertical organizational hierarchy, so that the organizational structure is flat; (3) managers are more empowered to the lower level of employees, the emphasis on the use of self-management of the team form; (4) reflecting the customer and market-oriented, around the needs of customers and the market, the organization of the workflow, the establishment of the appropriate The horizontal connection.

Second, the borderless organization. This organizational structure seeks to cut the chain of command, members of the hierarchical order down to r the lowest point, with unlimited span of control, the abolition of a variety of functional departments, replaced by authorized work teams. The concept of borderlessness refers to breaking down the internal and external boundaries of the enterprise: breaking down the internal boundaries of the enterprise, mainly in the formation of multi-functional teams within the enterprise, instead of the traditionally cut-off functional departments; breaking down the external boundaries of the enterprise, is to cooperate strategically with external suppliers, customers, including competitors, and to establish cooperative alliances.

Third, the organization of the network and virtualization. Borderless organizations and virtual organizations are specific forms of organizational networking and virtualization, and the virtualization of organizations can be both virtual operations and virtual office space.