Joan is a manufacturing engineer who works on a new product development team along with members from design, engineering, production, purchasing, finance, marketing, and quality assurance. joan still has responsibilities to the manager of manufacturing engineering, but simultaneously reports to the new product development team leader. what type of organizational design does this describe?

The organization design that the scenario above describes is the matrix structure. This organization structure involves of having to construct relationships in which there is a presence of product and functional manager that is needed in the organizational structure as it is essential and is traditional.

This is an organic type of organizational design.  Joan works in manufacturing firm composed of many teams (design, production, purchasing, finance, marketing, and quality insurance) handling one task – new product development. Joan reports to the manager and her team leader, too. These are two characteristics distinct to an organic organization.  

its simple as this, microeconomics is the study of economics at an individual, group or company level, macroeconomics on the other hand, is the study of a national economy as a whole.

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