Barbour Brown

MANAGING PEOPLE AND ORGANISATIONS TEST 4 At the moment Barbour Brown would be described as a flat organisational structure which means that the organizational structure has few levels of management. We can see this as it is a small company with only two managers which is David and Neil. Like any type of structure it has advantages and the advantages of a flat structure is that this structure allows better communication between employers and employees, also easier decision making and reduced costs to the company because they do not have many managers who have higher pay than employees also the workers will be more involved in decision making than being closely supervised by management.
In my opinion a structure that would be more applicable to the company would be a matrix structure which can allow scope for more time to be spent with the customer. Below is a diagram which identifies the Matrix structure. {draw:a} In a company like Barbour Brown there will be groups or teams of workers assigned to a particular project, for instance Neil could overview the marketing department, David could overview the main offices day to day activities and John could be onsite management. The new structure will allow Barbour Brown to benefit in all these ways: The adjustment and continual redefinition of
The merge with Johns Company would make it easier to decide who is in charge of what task for example David being in charge of administration also the task will allow growth and increase geographical spread in different services within the company and also the company could offer a close working partnership and major