SuperTech Solutions, a mid-sized technology company, is facing significant challenges related to its organizational structure. The existing structure is a traditional hierarchical model, which has led to several issues within the organization, including decreased employee motivation. This decline has led to the departure of many highly skilled employees, exacerbating the problem of employee turnover.
Challenges with SuperTech Solutions’ current organizational structure include the following:
The traditional top-down hierarchy is inflexible and slow to adapt to changing market trends and customer needs. Most decision-making power is concentrated at the executive level, causing bottlenecks and hindering innovation.
The organization operates with separate departments that often work independently. This isolation limits collaboration between different parts of the company, leading to inefficiencies, duplicated efforts, and a lack of shared knowledge.
Communication primarily flows from the top down, with few opportunities for employees to provide feedback, share new ideas, or be part of decision making. This has resulted in disengaged employees and missed chances for improvement.
In the complex hierarchical structure, employees frequently struggle to understand their roles and responsibilities. This lack of role clarity hampers individual accountability and creates tensions between teams.
Supporting Materials
The following resources support your work on this assignment:
Resource: SuperTech Solutions Organizational Structure Chart
This resource will provide you with a reference for the organization’s existing structure.
Tutorial: Create a Flow Chart With SmartArt – Microsoft Support
This resource will assist you with creating your proposed organizational structure chart within your Microsoft Word document.
Directions
Review the company’s current organizational chart found in the Supporting Materials section and create a restructured organizational model that addresses the organization’s challenges with their current structure. Support your proposed organizational structure chart by explaining how it addresses the company’s challenges and leads to improved morale, productivity, and overall performance. Your recommendations should involve a shift from the traditional hierarchical structure to a more modern, flexible, and collaborative structure. Support your ideas with scholarly sources.
Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:
Organizational Structure Chart: Provide a visual chart representing your proposed organizational structure.
Solution: Explain how the proposed organizational structure serves as a solution to the organization’s challenges.
Describe how the proposed organizational structure addresses flexibility to handle change.
Describe how the proposed organizational structure addresses collaboration between different parts of the organization.
Describe how the proposed organizational structure addresses communication to engage employees.
Describe how the proposed organizational structure addresses employees understanding their roles.
Employee Impact: Explain how employees within the organization will experience an increase in motivation, morale, and productivity with the proposed organizational structure.
What to Submit
Submit your assignment, including your proposed organizational chart, as a 3- to 5-page Microsoft Word document with double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, and one-inch margins. Sources should be cited according to APA style.