Leadership and Business Management Discussion
Turning a failing organization around is one of the most
interesting activities in management. When organizations see themselves in that
downward spiral, their managers may feel that they are unable to stop the pace
of negative change. That worry and that downward momentum can be very powerful.
At the same time, it sometimes takes only a key impetus to deflect that
movement and turn things around.
Picture yourself as a new manager hired into a failing
division in a company. The product line is outdated and losing market share,
inter-departmental communication is adversarial, and competition for corporate
funding is fierce. How are you, a new person, going to turn things around?
Consider the following example, Symphonic Cooperation, from another
“industry” below. The following article is an example of how one
person, working in a very different type of workplace, turned around a company
by making changes in its structure. Some of what was done may be food for thought
in your very different work environment. As your first job as the new manager
at the outdated, adversarial company, write a plan for changing its
organizational structure, incorporating the following elements:
Your vision of the new organizational structure for your
division including how you would realign individuals, tasks, processes and
functions
Steps to manage the transition from the old organizational
structure to the new
New policies that you would implement that should begin
right away to facilitate the change to the new organizational structure
