Boundryless Organization
Boundaryless Organization
Angela Guzman
University of Redlands
Professor Heinz
May 21, 2012
Boundaryless Organization
Newskool Grooves is a cutting edge multinational organization that has lead the music software development industry for many years. If Newskool Grooves wants to keep its competitive edge and reputation, changes to the organizational structure and management are in order for. This report is designed to provide Newskool Grooves’ executive committee with tools and suggestions to overcome some of the challenges that the company is experiencing so that Newskool Grooves can keeps its competitive edge.
Problems
The current organization of Newskool Grooves has many advantages: employees are strategically placed throughout the world in areas best suited for their role in the company, employees are empowered to think creatively within their role in the organization, and the hierarchy within the company is flattened. This allows all employees to be involved in the decision making process within the organization, and allows the company to hire highly experienced programmers in a country where compensation rates are low. While all of these are benefits for the company there are some implications that go along with this organizational structure: the distance and time gaps between functional areas within the company preclude different disciplines to interact with each other, cultural differences require employees from different areas to be managed differently, and executive management lacks the oversight and leadership required to fully implement the organizations mission, vision, and goals.
Cultural Issues and Conflicts Because Newskool Grooves is a multi-national and multi-cultural organization, there are inherent challenges that will accompany this. According to Robbins and Judge (2011), managers of global companies need to modify their management practices so that they reflect the values of the different countries that the organization
Angela Guzman
University of Redlands
Professor Heinz
May 21, 2012
Boundaryless Organization
Newskool Grooves is a cutting edge multinational organization that has lead the music software development industry for many years. If Newskool Grooves wants to keep its competitive edge and reputation, changes to the organizational structure and management are in order for. This report is designed to provide Newskool Grooves’ executive committee with tools and suggestions to overcome some of the challenges that the company is experiencing so that Newskool Grooves can keeps its competitive edge.
Problems
The current organization of Newskool Grooves has many advantages: employees are strategically placed throughout the world in areas best suited for their role in the company, employees are empowered to think creatively within their role in the organization, and the hierarchy within the company is flattened. This allows all employees to be involved in the decision making process within the organization, and allows the company to hire highly experienced programmers in a country where compensation rates are low. While all of these are benefits for the company there are some implications that go along with this organizational structure: the distance and time gaps between functional areas within the company preclude different disciplines to interact with each other, cultural differences require employees from different areas to be managed differently, and executive management lacks the oversight and leadership required to fully implement the organizations mission, vision, and goals.
Cultural Issues and Conflicts Because Newskool Grooves is a multi-national and multi-cultural organization, there are inherent challenges that will accompany this. According to Robbins and Judge (2011), managers of global companies need to modify their management practices so that they reflect the values of the different countries that the organization