{"id":92145,"date":"2023-02-15T14:17:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T18:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=92145"},"modified":"2023-02-17T16:41:43","modified_gmt":"2023-02-17T20:41:43","slug":"organizational-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/organizational-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"The Top 2 Organizational Problems &#038; How to Overcome Them"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>How do <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/organizational-problems-2\/\">organizational problems<\/a> happen? Why are traditional organizational structures failing?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aaron Dignan&#8217;s book <em><em>Brave New Work<\/em><\/em> guides leaders through effective changes in organizations. He says that these changes are necessary because of certain organizational problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Keep reading to learn how to move past these problems and make your organization thrive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-why-old-organizational-structures-are-failing\"><strong>Why Old Organizational Structures Are Failing<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019ll explain why traditional organizations (which Dignan calls \u201cLegacy Organizations\u201d) are ineffective in the modern world. Dignan defines traditional organizations loosely as those having a rigid hierarchical structure. They tend to have managers at the top who make decisions and monitor other peoples\u2019 work, and other employees who carry out their instructions and have little or no authority.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dignan identifies two traditional organizational problems today: Organizations are hindered by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/organizational-debt\/\">organizational debt<\/a> (obsolete processes and structures that hinder an organization),&nbsp; and they undermine employees\u2019 engagement at work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Organizational Debt Creates Inefficiency<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Organizational debt comes from processes that may have provided an important function at some point but no longer serve the organization<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For example, if an employee once spearheaded a project without permission, and it didn\u2019t go well, a manager might have established a lengthy review process for approving new projects. This rule might have been intended to prevent a negative outcome in the future, but it ultimately discourages people from taking initiative, and it slows the organization\u2019s progress toward its overall goal. Dignan also notes that organizational debt is in part a holdover from early 20th-century <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/kinds-of-managers\/\">management styles<\/a> that emphasized rigid and detailed rules to streamline manufacturing processes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>A Different Take on Organizational Debt<\/strong><br><br>The term <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pulse\/its-time-start-tackling-organizational-debt-b%C3%BClent-duagi#:~:text=Steve%20Blank%20coined%20the%20%E2%80%9Dorganizational,a%20digital%20product%20over%20time.\">\u201corganizational debt\u201d was originally used by the entrepreneur Steve Blank<\/a>, who defined it as the collection of changes that <em>should<\/em> have been made by an organization, but weren\u2019t. The phrase was a twist on the term \u201ctechnical debt\u201d which describes the accumulated cost of taking shortcuts when developing a technology or digital product. In both cases, the debt comes from <a href=\"https:\/\/insights.sei.cmu.edu\/blog\/are-we-creating-organizational-debt\/\">making a choice with a short-term gain and a long-term compounding cost<\/a>, just like taking on financial debt.<br><br>Based on this definition, organizational debt is even broader than Dignan describes and is often more like a shortcut. Most of Dignan\u2019s examples include burdensome bureaucratic processes, but eliminating or failing to introduce a process for expediency also becomes organizational debt if it has a long-term negative impact on the organization.&nbsp;<br><br>For example, if you fail to implement a thorough onboarding process for employees, you might save money and time in the short term by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/how-to-spend-less-money\/\">spending less<\/a> time <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/new-employee-training\/\">training employees<\/a>, but in the long term they will take longer to get up to speed and become productive members of the team.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Research confirms that workplaces with conventional management and structures (and thus organizational debt) are inefficient. Studies show that half of all manager roles are unnecessary, suggesting that organizations could increase productivity significantly by eliminating these roles altogether and finding new ways for workers to self-manage.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to one study, workers in the US spend 16% of their working time on internal bureaucratic processes (things like paperwork and getting approval from higher-ups). (Shortform note: In addition to spending a significant proportion of their time dealing with red tape at work, Americans also spend enormous amounts of time <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2021\/07\/how-government-learned-waste-your-time-tax\/619568\/\">navigating the bureaucracy of government social programs<\/a> such as Medicaid, food stamps, and unemployment benefits. As a result, vulnerable individuals have to invest more time in lengthy application processes and often fail to get the benefits they are eligible for.)&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dignan argues that minimizing these requirements is an opportunity for organizations to reduce costs and boost profitability. He suggests that this strategy is more effective at increasing profitability than other common strategies such as laying off general staff, eliminating key functions of the organization, and acquisitions and mergers that most often fail to produce the intended boost in revenue for all companies involved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>People Are Less Engaged at Work<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to being inefficient and less productive, traditional organizations are also failing workers today because <strong>people are unhappy when they lack control over the best way to get their work done<\/strong>. Micromanaging leads to a lack of trust and makes people want to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/avoiding-work\/\">avoid work<\/a> because they\u2019re frustrated with having someone constantly monitoring them. On the other hand, Dignan believes that when companies give people the tools and freedom to pursue their goals, they\u2019re intrinsically motivated to do so. This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/what-are-the-types-of-freedom\/\">type of freedom<\/a> leads to more efficient work and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/how-to-be-a-happier-person\/\">happier people<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do organizational problems happen? Why are traditional organizational structures failing? Aaron Dignan&#8217;s book Brave New Work guides leaders through effective changes in organizations. He says that these changes are necessary because of certain organizational problems. 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