Organizational Structure

The Boeing Organizational Structure

Cindy Camargo

MGT/300

March 21, 2010

Daniel Margrave

The Boeing Organizational Structure

The Boeing Company was found in 1916 in the Puget Sound region of Washington State and became a leading producer of military and commercial aircraft. It undertook a series of strategic mergers and acquisitions to become the world’s largest, most diversified aerospace company (Eastar Technologies Inc., 2007). Today they design, assemble, and support commercial jetliners. Commercial Aviation Services (CAS) offers broad range of services to passenger and freight carriers. They also design, assemble and support defense systems, commercial satellites, and launch vehicles; largest NASA contractor. The Boeing Co. is the world’s largest designer and manufacturer of military satellites, transports, tankers, fighters, and helicopters (Eastar Technologies Inc., 2007). This globally known company begins and ends with business development and strategy. From the top to bottom, the corporate functions that govern this corporate machine are, Business Development and Strategy, Communications, Engineering, Operations and Technology, Finance/Shared Services Group/Boeing Capital Corp., Human Resources/Administration, International, Law, Office of Internal Governance, and Public Policy (Spindler, 2005-2010). Human Resources and Technology are organizational resources that can justify if the organization has optimized them for effectiveness and efficiency to the organizational function of management at Boeing Company.

Organizing is establishing the internal organizational structure of the organization (Human Resources, Organizational Behaviour, 2009). The focus is the control of the flow of information and the distribution of authority to employees. An organization needs to be flexible and adaptive, mainly in response to customer’s needs. Boeing uses the matrix structure. The matrix form originated in the aerospace industry back...