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Organizational Structure: Developing the Organizational Structure to Reinforce Innovation
An organization’s structure can either promote innovative values and allow them to permeate throughout or create impasses for innovation to take hold in a culture. Organizational structures define the relationships between people and positions at an airport. They also determine the formal system for tasks and reporting relationships that control, coordinate, and motivate employees so that they collaborate to achieve an airport’s goals.
Understanding how their organizational structures can impact a culture of innovation will assist a leader in understanding how to reorganize or augment a structure to reinforce the innovation they are seeking. Considering the organizational structure and potential changes is a tangible action for leaders to demonstrate to their colleagues and team members that a culture supporting innovation is both valued and desired. Additionally, staff members can play key roles in supporting the organization’s journey toward creating a culture of innovation by learning how to collaborate with other business functions and identify key changes to promote the new culture of innovation.
Overall, having the entire organization aligned with a clear focus on the purpose and outcomes of an innovative culture will position the team to provide holistic financial support to this pursuit.
Check Out Plays 16-20
- Play 16: Aligning Organizational Structure to Support Innovation
- Play 17: Effectively Roll Out Structural Changes
- Play 18: Develop Strategies by Business Function to Overcome Resistance to Change
- Play 19: Create a Collaborative Work Environment
- Play 20: Emphasizing Organizational Budgets to Support Innovation