In the era of industrial economy, the early manual workshops adopted a highly centralized linear organizational structure due to the small scale of the enterprises.
With the continuous expansion of the scale of the enterprise, this centralized organizational structure is difficult to meet the needs of the development of the enterprise, so there is a linear functional organizational structure, a divisional email list organizational structure and so on.
Due to the limitation of the management range (the possible number of subordinates who can directly and effectively lead), a pyramid-like hierarchical organization is formed, which is a vertically integrated management model. As a result, it is more likely to create a disconnect where the above does not understand the following, and the company decision-making has to take a long time, while the operating costs of the enterprise continue to increase, the organization is bloated, the work is delayed, and the bureaucracy is formed.
However, with the development of computer technology, the number of people that managers can manage has increased, the hierarchical structure can be reduced, the flow of information has become faster, and the decision-making method has gradually changed from the top to the bottom. Keep information and make decisions, that is, let those who hear the fire have more decision-making power. All these factors make it necessary for enterprises to have faster decision-making and a more flexible organizational structure.
development trend
Judging from the trend in recent years, the network-based structure will increase, and the matrix structure formed by people from different departments within the enterprise will also increase.
In the past, there were more outsourced or temporary unions for blue-collar labor. Now knowledge-based labor outsourcing and temporary workers will also increase for two reasons:
One is because of the increase in supply;
The second is that in order to reduce costs and adapt to the flexible and changing project needs, the company will temporarily hire a consultant team and special personnel to complete the task, and will be disbanded after the task is completed.
The increase in the matrix structure within the enterprise is also due to the fact that in order to cope with the drastic market changes, the number of people who are aggregated and dispersed for different task reasons to complete specific tasks and projects will also increase.