OTD L3 Integrative organizational structure

Question 1

What does the organizational structure define?

Answer 1

• How tasks are allocated
• Areas of responsibility and accountability
• Reporting relationships and authority
• Formal coordinating mechanisms and interaction patterns between organizational members

Question 2

What are the steps for interdepartmental conflict?

Answer 2

Context –> Local conditions –> Observable indices

Question 3

What are the sources for interdepartmental conflict?

Answer 3

Context: environment
Local conditions:
goal incompatibility,
rewards and performance criteria

Question 4

What is a team?

Answer 4

• collection of individuals
• interdependent regarding a task
• share responsibility for outcomes
• autonomous entity in an organization

Question 5

Self-managed team

Answer 5

• task is defined outside the team
• self-managed and planned
• each task by one team member
• the leader is a coach (not decision-maker) and link to rest of organization
• informal coordination internally
• individual coordination externally

Question 6

Self-managed, autonomous team

Answer 6

• self managed
• simulating start-up
• project-related goal
• temporary
• cross-functional

Question 7

Holacracy

Answer 7

Holacracy is a method of decentralized management and organizational governance, in which authority and decision-making are distributed throughout a holarchy of self-organizing teams rather than being vested in a management hierarchy.

Question 8

Holarchy

Answer 8

• you have a role not a job description

Ted talk

Question 9

circle ‘holon’

Answer 9

• the circle ‘holon’ is a self-organizing entity
• has its own goals
• applies management functions to themselves: leading, doing, measuring
• can be part of a bigger department

Question 10

Holarchy: Double Linking

Answer 10

• Team Lead (manager): connection to broader circle; top-down alignment
• Representative Link (Rep Link); bottom-up alignment

Question 11

Holarchy: Governance

Answer 11

• ensure integrative decision-making
• encourage impersonal decision-making
• integrative decision-making = finding a workable solution
• Holarchy means continuous development (i.e. new roles)

Question 12

Are there many meetings in holarchy?

Answer 12

Yes, roles are updated constantly

Question 13

agile organization

Answer 13

squad, chapter, tribe

Question 14

1. What is a squad doing ?

Answer 14

• includes no more than 9 people
• is dismantled after achieving goal (necessary: common sense of success)
• product owner responsible for coordinating squad activities

Question 15

2. What type of team is a squad?

Answer 15

• autonomous
• has end-to-end responsibility
• cross-functional

Question 16

3. What is a chapter and chapter lead?

Answer 16

• personal/professional development
• functional ‘department’

when you see the squads vertically then the chapters are horizontal between the squads and are all people of for example data analytics

Question 17

3. What is a tribe and what is a tribe leader doing?

Answer 17

• includes squads with interconnected mission (i.e. securities)
• tribe lead establishes priorities, allocates budget and interface with other tribes

Question 18

When the organizational structure is revisited what are people controlled by?

Answer 18

control by market target and feedback

Question 19

When the organizational structure is revisited what is programmed coordination replaced by?

Answer 19

By mutual adjustment/individual coordination