Advantages And Disadvantages Of Team-Based Structures

Team-Based Structures In the modern business competition，traditional management structure is not enough effective for the increasingly fierce market competition. Therefore, some new structures of management had been created such as team-based structures. Team-based structure is task force organizational structure. It is can be quickly respond to fast-changing environment. Expertise by different teams according to needs of the organization; it can link in a short period to complete the task and with the combination of different demand elasticity team. This is an organized in loose, decentralized way of managing. In the team-based structure has a special existence call matrix structure. This is a structure which for some of the working across functions or department which in large structural organization. They are using this structure because they want breakthrough insufficient horizontal coordination of bureaucratic structure in response to environmental challenges in order to achieve the purpose. There are some

At the firs, if group leaders are without explicit request, the team lack of clarity. Although team members understand the common task, they may not very clear the task for themselves. And may interested in others work than ignoring their own work. For this problem, the good team should require has a group leader who has clear direction and good communication ability with others. There is less management in the team-base structure, so the quality for the leader should be higher than traditional structure. The second disadvantaged is the team-based structure’s stability is not good, also the economic efficiency is poor. The team-based structure has ability to make decisions quickly, teams undergo constant change. However, the decisions cannot be a perfect decision. Third, using the team-based structure, the team must constantly pay attention to management, because it lacks management structure by