1.

Identify some of the problems likely to occur in a boundaryless organization like Newskool
Grooves. What are the Advantages of boundaryless organizations? Some issues that have occurred
at the Kiev offices, managers there said that their computer programmers find working with little
structure is uncomfortable. They are used to the idea of a strong leadership structure and well-defined
work processes.

Trying to reach co-workers in other offices who practice boundaryless organization has become an
issue for some managers. They said that when they call the office they say to wait until their meeting
day which is an issue because they have an immediate issue and cannot always wait until they
decide to get together.

Developers working on hardware in different locations had a communication breakdown which

required many hours of discussion to resolve which could have been avoided if they were all on the
same track. The developers seldom met face to face and all made progress but all of them moved in
different directions with the product development.

An advantage of boundaryless organizations:

Boundaryless organizations communicate mainly through email, phone and other virtual methods
rather than more traditional face-to-face communication. The freedom to telecommute with
international employees removes geographical barriers to productivity and allows for schedule
flexibility. By organizing expert employees in groups and giving them decision-making authority, these
companies can change quickly to meet needs and function efficiently in an ill-defined hierarchy.

Employees no longer work in isolation but work as part of a team on broad, company-wide projects,
quality management, just-in-time methods, lean production, and supply-chain management,” reports
US Legal. To be successful, you should feel comfortable in a chaotic free-form workplace and have
an ease of working with people to orchestrate the incredible amount of networking required. When
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2) Consider some of the cultural issues that will affect a company operating in such
different parts of the world and whose employees may not be representative of
the national cultures of each country. Are the conflicts you observe a function of
the different types of work people have to perform?

In this boundaryless company, headquarter in Berlin, Germany, structure outsourcing

company in Kiev, Ukraine, marketing in Los Angeles, so many different employees with
different cultures are all collaborate working together to achieve organizational goals.
Employees are also very diverse in values, personality, and work preferences which are deep-
level diversity.

Some cultural issues that are sensitive will rise in the workplace and create unpleasant
things among employees. Employees might not be working together well as they will have
fighting in the decision making. A good research in understanding various biological
characteristics like gender, race, ethnicity, age, or disability, will better the surface-level
diversity. Almost all employees are creative and like to accept challenges. Therefore, in this
similar personality and work preferences, they should be emphasized in working with others
as a team. Training for team building with different cultures people will be quite important.

Looking at the conflicts in Newskool, like the difficulties in decision-making and

employees fighting to do what they perceive is better compare to the others. It takes time for
the company to come with one decision as all of the employees can participate in decision
making. People that are so diverse will suggest different solutions, reflecting their different
cultures. Maybe it will be good to have a proper discussion in decision making, and only few
managers can have the power in making decision in the discussion. It is not a function of
different types of work people have to perform. As people from different areas or departments
can contribute their opinions and ideas in the same work that require one decision.

Another conflict will be inefficiency. Yes, different people must perform different tasks
in their organization, but Newskool is boundaryless. When Gerd, the founder and the CEO
does not satisfy, he asks his employees to redo the work tasks. It will cause a waste in
resources as Gerd perceive something differently from his diverse employees. Sometimes, it
is good to have hierarchy as people can know who to refer, which department to function and
so on.
This conflict is a function of different types of work people have to perform. The
employees that are sometimes so dominant and think their works are correct, refuse to listen
to Gerd and do things according to their own way.

3) Based on what you know about motivation and personality, what types of
people are likely to be satisfied in each area of the company? Use concepts from
job characteristics theory and the emerging social relationship perspective on
work to describe what might need to change to increase employee satisfaction in
all areas.

Types of people are likely to be satisfied are competent, anxious, empowered and
open people. This based on self efficacy theory; this theory refers to an individual’s belief that
he or she is capable of performing task. People who posses self efficiency believe that they
are capable in behaving in a way that produce that outcome they want.

In Newskool Groovers, their employees are participates in decision making and

innovation, creative and competent people. Because technology plays a major role as a
communication medium in the boundaryless organization, much work is done from a distance
via e-mail, phone, and fax. Less work is done in traditional face-to-face settings. Virtual
collaboration makes it easier to use the expertise of a broader range of individuals. With
telecommuting, international employees are more easily made a part of all business processes.
Employees often like the freedom that boundaryless work offers them, particularly with virtual
teams and more flexible work plans, arrangements, and schedules. Due to that, employee in
company satisfied with the area of the company. Characteristic employees in company are
likely competent and strong team skills.

Concept job characteristics theory a model that proposes that any job can be described
in terms of five core dimension: skill variety, task identity, task significance, autonomy and
feedback. Based on this theory, to ensure employee satisfaction in all area in Newskool
Groovers are by creating and maintaining a common task and group climate to focus groups
and teams on the tasks at hand and on overall strategies, focus is on how to move ideas,
information, talent, and decisions where they are most necessary, increase individual skill to
do a task, hence he or she is encouraged to do it, regardless of title or position, jobs are
rewarded on the basis of doing the jobs, not for accomplishing the necessary work. Thus,
personal accountability for the work is discouraged at the expense of accountability for the
job.