The purpose of this report is to create a fictitious company that will start and deliver a sustainable development project in my country Pakistan. The objective of this report is to analyze two companies that will carry out sustainable development projects, and compare their organizational structures. This report has been requested by Middlesex University, Hendon as a part of my International Foundation Program. The intention of this report is to understand how to construct an organizational structure. The limitations faced as a student in this report could are the restriction of 1,500 words.
2) Literature review
2.1 Organizational structure
( GIVE AUTHORS NAME Business Studies for A level, pp212) explains an organizational structure as the hierarchy of the company and the way power and authority is shared in a company. It depicts the reporting lines within each department and within the organization itself. There are two types of organizational structure tall and flat. Or centralized and decentralized. Both organizational structures have advantages and disadvantages. One of the disadvantages of a tall structure it is costly to run, communication is limited. On the other hand the manager has clear control of the employees, and there are more possibilities of promotion.
2.2 Business ownership: means having total control over a business, and having the authority to function operations in a particular way. Business ownership can be acquired in 3 different ways; setting up your own business, franchising, and purchasing a company. There are five types of business ownership namely; Search 5 types of legal structures
(http://finance.mapsofworld.com/ownership/ )
2.3 Sustainability: Sustainability can b...
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...70% around 40% is related to beef production. McDonalds is working with other companies involved in beef production and the broader beef industry to address this topic and find greener ways of beef production to reduce its carbon footprint.
Works Cited
http://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en/our_story/our_history/the_ray_kroc_story.html
Ian Marcouse, Malcolm Surridge, Andrew Gillespie, 2011, “Business Studies for A Level”, pg no, London: Hodder Education Publication, Fourth Edition.
http://www.worldofcoca-cola.com/coca-cola-facts/coca-cola-history/
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sustainable
http://finance.mapsofworld.com/ownership/
http://businesscasestudies.co.uk/coca-cola-great-britain/creating-an-effective-organisational-structure/a-global-and-local-strategy.html#axzz2sES2anDQ
http://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en/full_menu_explorer.html
The Organisation structure of a company addresses the fact that every organisation has specific units that are responsible for different roles and actions in the organisation and that no department within the organisation stands alone, they are intertwined. The organisational chart or structure should be designed to divide up the work load, responsibilities and roles to be done
1. Hitt, Ireland and Hoskisson (2005), Strategic Management : Competitiveness and Globalisation, 6th Edition, Thompson & South-Western.
An organization is structured in a certain way based on some factors. Size is a factor because the bigger the organization, the more complex its structure. If the company is small, the design is generally simple. A small company does not have to undergo a formal structure. Larger organizations depend more on authority delegation and formal work responsibility, because a bigger company is harder to manage. Another factor is the lifecycle of the organization. An organization undergoes the...
“Structure is the pattern of relationships among positions in the organisations and among members of the organisation. Structure makes possible the application of the process of management and creates a framework of order and command through which the activities of the organisation can be planned, organised, directed and controlled.” (Mullins)
Sloman, J. and Sutcliffe, M. (2001). Economics for business, 2nd edition. Harlow: Pearson Education Limited.
Bagley, C., Dean, A., Stubbs, L. & Gardiner, M. (2011) BTEC National Business - Student Textbook.
The three perspectives can be compare and contrasted by using the organization structure which is the social and physical structure. Social structure is defined as connection and interaction between employees each department in an organization whereas physical structure is the actual layout of organization (Lecture slides, week 4, 2014, structure, culture and design). The social structure concept is developed by Max Webber for the purpose of looking through the division of labor, hierarchy of authority and corporate rules and procedures (Hatch and Cunliffe, 2009, p.103). Therefore, from a modernist perspective, it is clear that, structure differentiates through characteristic such as a flat or tall organization structure. Tall organization structures are those with divisions of labor through having many vertical hierarchy levels from top to bottom with only a few departments. Tall organizations on the other hand are those structures with a big number of divisions while having less hierarchical levels (Lecture slides, week 4, 2014, structure, culture and design). Modernists believe ...
First of all, organizational structure determines the hierarchy, the levels of communication, and how job tasks are formally divided, grouped and coordinated within an organization (Langton, Robbins, & Judge, 2013). There are six key elements that managers need to address when they design their organization’s structure: work specialization, departmentalization, chain of command, span of control, centralization and decentralization, and formalization (Langton et al., 2013). The way in which an organizational structure is constructed and implemented can affect company productivity.
A structure gives the organization an identity and provides continuity. It’s also concerned with the most appropriate way to group activities in the organization to achieve desired objectives. It’s includes also the arrangements by which various activities are divided by members of the organization and the way efforts are co-ordinated. Business structure can come in different types of structure.
Organizational structure is one of the three key organizational assets that could contribute to the effectiveness of operations of any organization (Zheng, Yan and Mclean 2009) It is joined together by different flows of information, decision processes, hierarchy of authority, specialization and working materials. (Enz 2009; Mintzberg 1980) Furthermore, it also determines the operating workflow, control of information, decision-making in the organization and the line authority (Mintzberg 1980). The facets of the organizational structure, the relationships that exist within it, and how the business processes (Bititci et al 2011) are controlled, determine the managerial style that should be utilized in addition to the strategies the organization could implement. Going further, a company’s organizational design and the parts that constitute it are seen as a contributing factor to superior performance, which ultimately provide an organization with competitive advantage over its competitors. (Enz 2009; Zheng, Yang, and Mclean 2009)
Chapman, S, Devenish, N 2011, Business Studies in Action, 3rd ed, John Wiley & Sons Australia, Milton, Qld.
In order for one to evaluate and identify with the diverse business structures, he/she must be aware of the meaning and standards that makes that structure. Various businesses functions in different ways as the world is full of technology and new structures, company cultures and new ways in which companies are run. In order to fully grasp the concepts of Organizational structure and culture in the movies, I will use the Movie Up in the Air and The Devil Wear Prada movies to analyze a business scenario from them.
Organizational structure within an organization is a critical component of the day to day operations of a business. An organization benefits from organizational structure as a result of all it encompasses. It is used to define how tasks are divided, grouped and coordinated. Six elements should be addressed during the design of the organization’s structure: work specialization, departmentalization, chain of command, spans of control, centralization and decentralization. These components are a direct reflection of the organization’s culture, power and politics.
18. Rugman, Alan M. and Collinson, Simon. International Business 4th Edition. Essex : Pearson Education Limited, 2006.
Organizational structure is the way that an organization arranges people and jobs so that work can be performed and goals can be achieved. Good organizational design helps communications, productivity, and innovation. Many organization structures have been created based on organizational strategy, size, technology, and environment. Robbins and Judge (2011, p. 504) listed three common structures: simple, bureaucracy, and matrix. In this post the author will describe the matrix structure, and discuss its advantages and disadvantages.