ABSTRACT
Good architects nurture the psychological, mental, and spiritual needs of the people who will inhabit their structures. The blueprints for dynamic new forms of organization will require tremendous design skills because executives will have to move away from tight structure and control. The Gaines Food Plant located in Topeka, Kansas, once owned by General Foods, is now operated by Anderson Clayton, and may soon be sold to Quaker Oats. All the apparent interest and disinterest in this food plant has come about partly as a result of its surprising organization form. To regain lost efficiency, executives broke their unwieldy functional organizations into product divisions, each responsible for a different product or group of products, and each with its own set of functional departments, such as marketing, sales, finance, and purchasing. Numerous types of organizational structures have arisen to cope with the increasingly complex nature of the business world.
