Essays on Hierarchical Structure

For Scenario 1, I would use project-based organizational structure where an independent team would be created to handle the northwest United States horn market. The reason for picking this structure is the focus on a single project where the selected team will just deal with this project thereby increasing chances of project success. The potential problem with this structure is the weakening of the integration between the parent organization and the project team. In addition, there is potential for duplication of efforts in case the organization has such project teams for many other projects. For Scenario 2, I would ...

Critical Analysis for Management

Introduction Organizations are entities that comprise of people and/or systems. Organizations are neither a completely harmonious setting nor or they battlefields where conflicts define their structure. Instead, organizations can be stated as something which political negotiations define. Essentially, the very survival within an organization is an act that is heavily influenced by politics. Human and material resources together form an organization. Out of these two most important resources, it is the human resources of the organization who work in transforming the material resources into an end- product or service. For transforming the material resources into finished goods or services, ...

National Bank of Canada

National Bank of Canada is among the largest commercial banks in Canada, with its headquarters located in Montreal, Canada. The bank’s history dates back in 1859 when francophone businesspersons founded it (Cheffins, 1998). The bank has approximately 452 branches located in most of the Canadian provinces and approximately 2.4 million clients. The bank also has partnerships, subsidiaries and representative offices in other countries through which it serves both Canadian and non-Canadian customers. The bank has a public company ownership structure and its shares trade in Toronto stock market. This paper discusses in details the organizational structure, managerial practices, ...

Introduction

The modern world is increasingly facing the development and advancement of the social media, which has become an essential part of the contemporary society. Most of the common platforms of social media include gaming sites, video sites such as YouTube, blogs, and Web sites such as Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, Instagram, and LinkedIn among others. These channels have provided different and convenient ways of communication and hence changing and revaluing the ties that bind people together. These ties involve the emotional interconnection between different individuals in the society regardless the adverse or positive aspect of this interconnection. Through verbal and ...

(a) A hierarchical structure and organization by functional specialty as enunciated by Weber’s principles of modern bureaucracy are two important facets of a government organization because they both serve as control tools in the efficient delivery of basic services to the public. Hierarchy represents the classic command-and-control relationship that is a defining feature in many organizational settings, including governments. A hierarchical structure permits those in the higher rung of the hierarchy to review the conduct of activities by those in the lower rung. It serves as a control tool that assures democratic accountability or to put it bluntly, ...

For my market cultural report I have selected the country that shows one of the most rapid developing economics in the world, and that is China. I have always been fascinated by this country and not only by their success in economic growth, but also by the country’s beauty. The nature of China is unique and magnificent as for me, there are nowhere on Earth such places as in this country. Moreover, authentic culture and customs of these people are also very attractive to me. There is the highest mountain on Earth, Everest, there and unique place called ...