The organizational structure of a business affects critical elements such as decision making, employee behavior, performance and rewards, individual accountability and managed information. It's ...

A global electronics manufacturer seemed to live in a perpetual state of reorganization. A new line of communication devices for the Asian market required reorienting its sales, marketing and support ...

As your small business grows, you'll most likely need to add supervisors, managers, departments, policies and procedures. That means you need to create some sort of organizational structure. Don't ...

Leaders can sense when their organization is not working well or if the environment they operate in has changed, rendering the operating strategy and structure obsolete. The current Covid-19 pandemic ...

Anyone who’s celebrated a significant work anniversary knows just how a company can change over the years—who has a seat at the table, what customers expect, the most coveted skills. But there’s just ...

Organizations today are facing increasingly complex challenges, and the ability to plan three years down the road is becoming fuzzier given the rapid changes in technology and social dynamics. Leaders ...

The study of organizational behavior is an academic discipline concerned with describing, understanding, predicting, and controlling human behavior in an organizational environment. Organizational ...

A version of this article appeared in the Autumn 2016 issue of strategy+business. Most companies have leaders with the strong operational skills needed to maintain the status quo. But they face a ...