An organization's structure determines the way employees and jobs are arranged to meet its needs and objectives. In a functional structure, employees are departmentalized by task similarity, and ...

The "Functional-Hierarchic" organization is commonly called the "Matrix" organization. While often over-theorized, the Matrix is an attempt to introduce flexibility into rigid and bureaucratic ...

Conventional wisdom suggests that companies need to have professional managers, who are mainly tasked with managing the people who do the actual ...

In his decades-long career in tech journalism, Dennis has written about nearly every type of hardware and software. He was a founding editor of Ziff Davis’ Computer Select in the 1990s, senior ...

When he returned to Apple, Steve Jobs dismantled its typical corporate structure and radically changed how the entire business was managed. The benefits of that rethinking about corporate structure ...