Organisational Structure of iRobot : Founded in 1990 and incorporated in Delaware in 2000, the iRobot Corporation designs robots such as an autonomous home vacuum cleaner (Roomba), the Scooba that scrubs and cleans hard floors, and military and police robots, such as the PackBot. iRobot is a public corporation (NASDAQ: IRBT), based in Bedford, Massachusetts.


CEO

Colin Angle
Director

George McNamee

Director

Peter Meekin

Director

Paul Kern
Director

Andrea Geisser

Director

Jacques Gansler
Director

Rodney Brooks
Director

Helen Greiner

Director

Ronald Chwang

Director

Paul Sagan

CFO

John Leahy
COO

Joseph Dyer
CTO

TW

Media Relations

Nancy Smith
Home Robots Division

JB
Healthcare Business Unit

TL

Government & Industrial Robo...

Robert Moses

Sales

Tom Thomas
Finance & Accounting

AD
Legal & Secretary

GW
Human Resources

PO
CIO

JL


The structural needs of expansion and growth are satisfied by the functional structure but only up to a limit. There comes a time in the life of organizations when growth and increasing complexity in term of geographic expansion, market segmentation and diversification make the functional structure in adequate. Second most common type of structure can be organized by:

- Geographic area

- Product or service

- Customer

- Process

o Advantages

- Clear accountability

- Higher employee morale

- Creates career development opportunities for managers

- Allows local control of situations

- Leads to a competitive climate within an organization

- Allows new businesses and products to be added easily

o Disadvantages

- Can be costly to set up

- Each division requires functional specialists

- Duplication of staff services, facilities, and personnel

- Managers must be well qualified

- Requires an elaborate, headquarters-driven control system

- Competition between divisions may become so intense that it is dysfunctional

When there is structure in marriage, the question of how to make marriage work is clearly answered, because this structure, featuring role specifics based on unselfish principled love, unifies marriage to last a lifetime.

To illustrate, let's draw a business organizational chart to explain this structure. The first box, like any well-run function, positions a leader (a CEO or president). Next boxes indicate support staff. Each employee is designated a specific role in which to contribute to the company and grow to his or her full potential.

This support staff are employees the CEO surround himself whom he recognizes are competent people who are just as capable, often more capable than himself in specific areas. These are people he respects and who will perform at a high level of proficiency in their field of expertise.

And very importantly, these are trustworthy people he can consult for vital input in making major decisions. The CEOs, job then, is always working with these team members for the betterment of the company.
 
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An organizational structure defines how activities such as task allocation, coordination and supervision are directed towards the achievement of organizational aims. It can also be considered as the viewing glass or perspective through which individuals see their organization and its environment.They enhance coordination and the working environment is just impeccable and finical.
 
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