Joan is a manufacturing engineer who works on a new product development team along with members from design, engineering, production, purchasing, finance, marketing, and quality assurance. joan still has responsibilities to the manager of manufacturing engineering, but simultaneously reports to the new product development team leader. what type of organizational design does this describe?

The organization design that the scenario above describes is the matrix structure. This organization structure involves of having to construct relationships in which there is a presence of product and functional manager that is needed in the organizational structure as it is essential and is traditional.

This is an organic type of organizational design.  Joan works in manufacturing firm composed of many teams (design, production, purchasing, finance, marketing, and quality insurance) handling one task – new product development. Joan reports to the manager and her team leader, too. These are two characteristics distinct to an organic organization.  

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a manufacturer of printed circuit boards uses exponential smoothing with trend to forecast monthly demand of its product. at the end of december, the company wishes to forecast sales for january. the estimate of trend through november has been 200 additional boards sold per month. average sales have been around 1000 units per month. the demand for december was 1100 units. the company uses α = 0.20 and β = 0.10. make a forecast including trend for the month of january.