I currently work in a functional organization where as @aaq2 mentions, the functional head has a lot of power and make the decisions. As mentioned in lecture one of the main disadvantages is that we are one of many silos which can be detrimental to sharing information and culture. I work in the licensing group, but then you have contracts legal group, regulatory group, clinical group etc. My employer is very big and has over 10,000 employees so there are changes within the leadership and the addition/expansion of different groups. It’s hard to keep up with sometimes. I agree that there are advantages to the functional organization type in that only one person is making the decisions, and there is a clear path for advancement but I wish there was more interaction with other departments/groups. I think it would be interesting to work in a project-based organization where there is more collaboration among groups and no silos of departmental information. I’m not sure if I’d like it better since it might be competitive among the project groups and that could be detrimental to the culture, but I’d be interested to see what it would be like to work on a specific project and collaborate with different team members.