Question: In an approximately 500-word response, address the following issues/questions:

In the introduction to this Key Concept Exercise, you have considered the need for organisations to continuously manage a sustainable growth and development cycle. This Key Concept Exercise requires you to critically analyse the extent to which your own employing organisation, or another organisation with which you are familiar, is successfully meeting the management challenges this growth and development cycle implies. Your analysis should be based on answers to these questions:

• What organisational structure has been adopted in order to assign levels of authority and to establish reporting lines? What are the advantages and disadvantages of this structure compared with alternative structures that might have been chosen?

• How is this organisational structure reflected in the decision-making processes that apply to the design and implementation of significant organisational change?

• What impacts do the decision-making processes in this organisation have on the way that the key functional activities of the organisation are performed?

• What impacts do the decision-making processes in this organisation have on the organisation's relationships with its external stakeholders?