Discovery Clothing is a clothing retailer in Chicago. The store is more commonly referred to as Discovery, as displayed by the moniker outside of the store. The discovery provides a huge selection of fashionable merchandise – from clothing and shoes to jewelry and purses – for the typically junior-sized woman. There are over 25 locations of Discovery Clothing Company mainly in the Chicago. I work at the location in Berwyn, along with 27 other employees. On the day of orientation, all new employees are introduced to Discovery’s standards of behavior, as listed in the official employee handbook.
The structure of employees at the company forms a simple organizational framework. The organization is led by a manager in charge of all the employees. Under his is the Store Cashier who handles financing and payments from the customers. Cashiers must be knowledgeable in the prices of the different products as well as the price and works with the Assistant Store Manager. The last level is the level of sales Associate who provide outstanding customer service for the company along with teams of merchandisers.
Reference Group
Identification of my work group as the reference group is what I have learnt from the workgroup at the company. When I started working at the company, I identified with a work group composed of very hard working people, who are famously referred to as “the masters.” The term does not reflect our group’s educational levels but our general culture and way of doing things at the firm. The excellence and unity of our team members define us and sets us as a unique clique at the company.
Thesis
The discussion and description of my work group in this paper will demonstrate the importance of standards of behavior and relativi...
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...strates the importance of standards of behavior and relativity to socialization in a work group. This is what makes a work group a reference group to employees at the workplace. The first standard at the group is the dress code that identified the group as a unique clique at the company. The second standard is the promotion of quality customer service and sales attendance to sales, attendance to sales of the company happy and loyal. The third standard is working together as a team and maintaining an organized working environment at the sales floor thereby helping all the members. The fourth standard cements the other standards by enabling workers in the group to get along with others well. Through these standards, I have leaned to merge my learned is and expectations with other workers skills in workers to create synergy and promote social ties with my working group.
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J. Crew, also known as J. Crew Group Inc., is a private label company known for its preppy fashions that are fashionable yet costly. Essentially, the company was owned by the Cinader family for most of its history. Mitchell Cinader and Saul Charles founded the company in 1947. It was originally known as Popular Merchandise Inc. doing business as the Popular Club Plan, in which Mitchell’s son Arthur was the overseer. The company sold women’s clothing through in-home demonstrations. In the early 1980’s, Cinader and Charles observed catalog retailers such as Land’s End, Talbots and L.L. Bean reporting rising sales in revenue. With intentions to increase sales and duplicate success of these well known companies, Popular Club Plan began its own catalog (http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/j-crew-group-inc-history/).
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
Lululemon, a premium yoga-focused retail chain, serves two market segments. One segment consists of consumers who are characterized as “trendy urban” and the other segment consists of “wealthy” consumers. The “trendy urban” segment, in summary, is fashion oriented or active women who live in metropolitan areas. The “wealthy” market segment is affluent women who live in either urban or suburban areas. As discussed below, these two market segments are defined by differences in demographics, geography as well as behavioral and psychographic characteristics.
Organisational Structure, Culture, and Management Style of a Business C2 An Analysis of How the Organisational Structure, Culture And Management Style of the Business Affects its Performance and Operation and Help It to Meet Its Objectives The organisation structure of Wednesbury IKEA The organisation structure in the ‘Appendix section’ belongs to the Wednesbury branch of IKEA. Wednesbury IKEA is a large formal organisation and it is best suited to a hierarchical organisational structure. This is because; there are more employees as it goes downwards from each level.
The first chapter of “Working in Groups” focuses on group communication, the first aspect being the key elements of group communication (Engleberg and
In almost every aspect of our daily lives, Social and cultural norms are present. We usually take for granted even the most basic function of cultural and social norms. The broader definition states that norms ‘are the agreed-upon expectations and rules by which a culture/population guides/shapes the behaviour of its members in a given situation.’ This means that in a context where everybody, or nearly everybody, follows the practice of OD, the expectations are that the same individual behavior is performed by many others, thus making the practice acceptable and ‘normal’ Along with these influences, comes peer-pressure. The lack of a clear understanding of the role and mechanisms of behavior change has been responsible for many development failures. However, developing strict behavior change strategies might also be not enough to promote change. That’s the purpose of Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. It determines if a new hire will jive with their colleagues. Social norms provide a key to understanding social influence in general and conformity in particular. Social norms are the accepted standards of behavior of social groups. Social groups changes what we think. Norms serve a basic human social function, helping us distinguish who is in the group and who is an outsider. Behaving in ways the group considers appropriate is a way of demonstrating
In any workplace, it is important to have a team that works together effectively and efficiently, and for that to happen there are different significant components that are involved. With every member’s that are involved, it takes the cooperation and effective communication between them. This essay will aim to go over what went on with the interactions between the members of the group at West Coast Transit Case (WCT), in which will be reviewed to resolve the order of the group. The reviewing of this essay is going to include what makes an effective team, Tuckman’s five stages of group formation, behavioral roles, what makes an effective communication, conflicts, the maintenance/dysfunctional activities, and the motivation issues and theories.
The bottom layer would follow the guideline so they can achieve the company objectives. The group structure is Chairman Board of Directors Group of Executives Board of Management Group of General Management The main departments within the group are: Administration Division Business Division Customer Support Division Network Development Division Production Services Division R&D Department Finance Department Human Resources Each division has managers for supervision. The staff in each division needs to follow the managersÂ’ decision. Every member of staff clearly understands their role and responsibility under the hierarchical structure. It is because each layer gets different responsibilities.
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.
There are three members that unite to produce “Group J”. Of the three members, each can identify with leadership skills which are vital to a successful work environment. Leadership is the ability to take charge of a situation and direct others for a desired outcome. Despite leadership being such a commendable trait to have, it can allow for negative outcomes. Negative outcomes include being carried away with directing others and obsessing over one’s desires in the work place. Leadership can easily altercate one’s mind to have them believe they are more important than their actual position is. Following leadership, each member can identify with motivation. Motivation it was fuels the mind set and executes goals set. A weakness that coincides with motivation is failure to see the smaller details that combine to make the “bigger picture”. Being motivated can narrow your vision on your other duties that you must perform to achieve the success you
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.
The employees work under the expertise supervision which helps them in achieving the organisation business’s goals. The functional manger is responsible and answerable to the head of the organisation. The following are a few advantages and disadvantages of the functional organisation structure:-
When a company has a diverse product line, each product will have unique demands, a functional structure is appearing. Functional structures are also more effective in stable environments that are slower to change. Many firms use a functional structure successfully because the functional structure provides for a high level of centralization that helps to ensure integration and control over the related product-market activities or multiple primary activities in the value chain (G.Dess, 2003). For example, in 3M Company that has marketing department, finance department, research and development department, and production department. All of the employees that are distributing to the different group to accomplish those missions or task that department handle. In these structures, each person has be a specialized role to accomplish those goals. For example, marketing’s employee may serve as an planner, planning events for all the products that in the company. Finance department is to manage all the finance in the company makes sure the company is in profit
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