This clip is from an article on the influence of Generation Y on organizational structure. As this structure becomes common, training and learning departments will have a clear business requirement for social and informal learning.

Of course there is some controversy about who these Gen Y's really are as a group and where they will be in ten years. When boomers became managers they didn't exactly turn the workplace into a commune.

Amplify’d from www.management-issues.com

A New Kind of Organizational Design Today's organizational designs will likely be deemed obsolete. Millennials will demand a shift away from "command and control" reporting lines to more cooperative-based leadership models that provide greater autonomy and freedom of choice in the way work is performed. Such a shift will stress and flex the organization in new and challenging ways. Looser, team-based organizational designs will need to be adopted. Gone are the days of multi-layered designs characterized by managers managing managers. Rather, temporary, purpose-based worker groupings emerge and flatter reporting structures are the upshot. The pyramid management structure that we all grew up in will slowly be replaced with a more fluid and responsive network design. A networked organizational design is the next evolutionary step for today's "matrixed" organization. Read more at www.management-issues.com