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Workshop #2 Today's trend towards greater project-based complexity makes organizational culture and designs the central theme behind the ultimate success and failure of any given project. With the emergence of global markets, projects now take on a wide distribution of project teams scattered across multiple organizations in a particular supply chain. If a particular organization is not trained to take on these new complexities, the selection of a project is thus limited towards smaller and menial tasks. Most organizations fall under two specific forms- organic and mechanistic (Olson & Branch, 2002). Organic companies have a culture in place that deals more with rapidly changing markets and technologies. Mechanistic companies are more effective in stable markets that usually do not require a quick turnover of new projects (Olson & Branch, 2002). Depending on how the organizational design and the employees who drive these decisions are defined, the culture is often times the...

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