The "Functional-Hierarchic" organization is commonly called the "Matrix" organization. While often over-theorized, the Matrix is an attempt to introduce flexibility into rigid and bureaucratic ...

Studying a company's bureaucracy reveals important aspects of how a company functions. Comparing functional and team organizational charts reveals a vertical aspect to the functional structure ...

The U.S. announced this week that it is formally withdrawing from the World Health Organization, citing undue Chinese influence. CBC News explains how the United Nations organization really works.

No organizational structure has evoked more heated debate than the bureaucracy. On one hand, many consider the bureaucratic organization to be the embodiment of rationality in the modern world ...

Perhaps the worst management decision the federal government ever made regarding the RCMP was to bring the national police force into Ottawa’s ordinary bureaucratic organizational structure in ...

In his new book The Ministry of Common Sense, How to Eliminate Bureaucratic Red Tape, Bad Excuses, and Corporate BS, Lindstrom looks critically at the six most frequent roadblocks to common sense ...

The effective implementation of these two sets of policy tasks that differ in the extent, nature and intractability of collective action problems confronting the coordination process hinges on the ...