BUS 475 Week 3 Learning Team Assignment Functional Area

Functional Area Interrelationships

Select one organization of the Virtual Organizations from the student website.

Write a 1,200- to 1800-word paper in which you complete the following:

State the primary reasons for the organizations existence from an analysis of the mission, vision, values, and goals.

Analyze the reason for the type of organizational structure employed by the organization, and identify the key positions that support that organizational structure.

Identify and explain the steps of the collaboration process among the functional areas that must be employed to achieve organizational goals, and prepare an action plan to implement the collaboration process.

Identify and provide an example of the use of lateral collaboration and vertical collaboration within the organization, and prepare an action plan to use lateral and vertical collaboration.

Identify the key stakeholders and their roles needed to achieve the organizational goals, and recommend the collaborative interactions among the key stakeholders to facilitate the organizations success.