1. You work as an organisation design consultant in a global consulting firm. Your clients come from private, public and nonprofit sectors as well as from different types of business. This week, your managing director has sent you the following client list and asked you to select one and write up an organisation design proposal. You need to decide which structure, i.e. organic or mechanistic, is fit for the client. In the proposal, you should explain to the managing director your design rationales.

? a Biotech start-up

? the air traffic control center of a new airport

? a newly formed policy think tank composed of a team of multidisciplinary experts

? HIV/AIDS NGO