Tham khảo tài liệu 'essentials of strategic management planning_5', khoa học xã hội, kinh tế chính trị phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Even with its evolution into strategic business units SBUs during the 1970s and 1980s the divisional form is not the last word in organization structure. The use of SBUs may result in a crisis in which the corporation has grown too large and complex to be managed through formal programs and rigid systems and procedures take precedence over problem solving. The matrix and the network are two possible candidates for a fourth stage in corporate development a stage that not only emphasizes horizontal over vertical connections between people and groups but also organizes work around temporary projects in which sophisticated information systems support collaborative activities. According to Greiner it is likely that this stage of development will have its own crisis as well. He predicts that employees in these collaborative organizations will eventually grow emotionally and physically exhausted from the intensity of teamwork and the heavy pressure for innovative WHAT ARE THE BLOCKS TO CHANGING STAGES Corporations often experience difficulty because they are blocked from moving into the next logical stage of development. Blocks to development may be internal such as lack of resources lack of ability or a refusal of top management to delegate decision making to others or they may be external such as economic conditions labor shortages and lack of market growth. For example Chandler noted in his study that the successful founder CEO in one stage was rarely the person who created the new structure to fit the new strategy and that as a result the transition from one stage to another was often painful. This was true of General Motors Corporation under the management of William Durant Ford Motor Company under Henry Ford I Polaroid Corporation under Edwin Land Apple Computer under Steve Jobs and Sun Microsystems under Scott McNealy. Is there an Organizational Life Cycle Instead of considering stages of development in terms of structure the organizational life cycle .
