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"Organizational design involves making difficult choices about how to control" (textbook, p95), coordinate, and motivate internal and external resources to maximize an organization's capacity to create value. Having a well-developed design and structure is a key ingredient to ensure survival, prosperity, and effectiveness in a dynamic and evolving business environment that continually cultivates new impediments and problems without caution. Pine Mountain State University has found itself in a situation where its organizational design and structure has fallen out of line with its general and specific environments hindering its ability to successfully respond to contingencies that have arisen. The organization has recently undergone a restructuring in order to respond to environmental pressures; however, the reorganization has been ineffective in responding to and initiating action to minimize current threats. The key issues that require immediate resolution include the following:
1. The organization has been ineffective in its management of inputs and operations to maximize the value created
2. The organization has failed in its ability to converge and satisfy the needs of inside and outside stakeholders
3. The state has been severely affected by a recession which has impeded the ability of the organization to receive adequate real dollar funding
4. There has been increased political pressure calling for accountability and financial responsibility
5. The organization must determine the level of differentiation and integration it would like to sustain with its sister university in the urban ...