Organizational Change Management: A study on the need for a re-structured organization within a functional configuration
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Date
2009-08
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The British University in Dubai (BUiD)
Abstract
The objective of this study was to qualitatively examine the current organizational
structure and systematically investigate and review proposed changes at an Oil Refining
Organization. In this study a critical investigation will be conducted to mainly identify
and recommend relevant dimensions of a new organizational structure and offer some
tentative recommendations to the optimal approach in a project organizational selection
context in order to help the current organization overcome cuncurrent organizational
difficulties pertaining to managing projects.
First, a look at the three major organizational forms commonly used namely, functional,
matrix and projectized organizational forms will be conducted, and how each is
currently fitted into the current organization. Each of these forms will be investigated in
terms of its pros and cons and expected effect on the parent organization. In addition,
advantages and disadvantages of the proposed changes and the overall strategic
leadership necessary to successfully implement the assigned projects within the
framework of the newly discussed organizational structure will be looked into. Then,
critical factors that might lead to choosing one form of structure over the others will be
discussed by deciding about how to tie projects to the parent organization and how to
organize the project teams. In a latter part of this paper a discussion on how a project
management team can be organized and then consider some combination of the
fundamental forms and examine the implications of using different forms of
organizational structures.
Finally, a conclusion will be drawn on factors influencing the choice of the optimum
organizational structure and the difficulties pertaining to deciding it should be
explained. Moreover, some of the critical success factors that might lead to choosing
one from of organization over the others and some details of the project team, and
describing the various roles of the project staff will be examined. The details of
organizing the project team as part of the new organization structure will be
investigated as to describe the roles of the project staff in their constituent sections
under the newly proposed organization, which will be looked into in details. It will also
be concluded that in a functional organization, the introduction of projectized structure
for the newly introduced organization may significantly increase the probability of
successful outcome from projects.
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organizational change, functional configuration, organizational structure, project management, strategic leadership