Decisions on a Company Networking Basis

Some companies opt to use a different approach in their organizational structure. It's an approach that doesn't rely on just straight forward management and the chain of command. Although it does not always benefit and work out for companies to operate this way, it sometimes allows them to perform even better financially. This type of organizational structure is a networking type feel. It takes all employees big or small, old and new into consideration when making decisions at the moment. Of course there's a penalty to poor decision making by a bad employee, but sometimes it does more good than bad. For instance it would work on a checks and balances type set up where a organization would collaborate like ideas to perform the best decision making. Each important decision would rely on a set of employees which in turn would collaborate with other employees throughout the company specialized in different fields. Their expertise in their respective fields would cover all aspects in any given decision opportunity.

Functional Structure Design Example

Let's say there's a decision whether to cut spending in the call center department of company XYZ. This would require employees from different areas such as a manager in the customer service department, an actual call center employee, an accounting representative, and a decision support specialist in company growth. On a much larger scale these individuals would collaborate to implement the best approach in the spending depletion. Whether it is the financial spending that needs to be in a certain range, or not cut at all, this would allow them to make the best possible decision. It would then typically be confirmed through another set of managers or vice presidents before put into place.