Essays on Organizational Structure

Management Practices at Web media

Management Practices at Web media
Planning, leading, organizing, staffing and controlling are widely accepted functions of management; effective implementation of these management practices helps managers in better decision making and problem solving. In fact, principles of management have, at times, been, synonymized with P-O-L-C framework that includes planning, organizing, leading and controlling.
This paper exemplifies the application of these management practices at Web media, a website design and development organization. It will provide a holistic understanding to readers about the implementation of management practices at workplace.

As Web media is a startup, managers have planned to create brand awareness Continue reading...

Introduction

Customer loyalty is crucial for every business. In case of a business losing customer loyalty, it faces several problems in the form of loss of market share and revenue. Repetitive sales from the consumer helps create better and improved market position. In case of retail industry, customer loyalty is extremely important and essential for long term success (Payne and Frow, 2005). In present times where in E commerce has taken over, a firm like TESCO would require ensuring customer loyalty in order to survive the competition. Moreover they are also expanding their businesses and customer loyalty can help them Continue reading...

INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

An organization structure explains in which the activities in an organization are allocated, supervised, and coordinated in order to achieve the goals of the organization. The structure of an organization depends on the type and the market structure of the organization. It is usually developed depending on the firm's objectives as it helps in determining the ways in which the operations in the business will be operated and performed. The structures allow the business management in determining the ways of allocating responsibilities to the various functions that are available and the different entities in the business such as the Continue reading...

Abstract

Organizational structure influences the service delivery of the organization. Different organizational structures are used in healthcare organizations. These include bureaucratic structure, matrix, flat structure and hybrid organizational structure. Common in most health organizations is the bureaucratic structure that uses a top-down approach of management. However, due to certain challenges, organizations are using a hybrid organizational structure, as it eliminates the problems of using a single organizational structure.

Bureaucratic Organizations

A bureaucratic organizational structure consists of four basic characteristics. According to Finkelman and Kenner (2013), division of labor is a distinguishing characteristic of bureaucratic organization. Division of labor involves the specialization of Continue reading...

Introduction

Disney World is an entertainment complex that is located in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. The resort attracts millions of enthusiastic visitors all year round. Disney World was opened in the year 1971 and on average; it receives about 52.5 million attendants per annum. The resort is an extension of the Walt Disney Company, and it covers approximately 16, 997 ha (42000 acres). The Disney World houses 24 resorts, 2 water parks, 4 theme parks among many other entertainment and recreational venues. The original theme park of the complex is Magic Kingdom. Most of the theme parks were opened throughout Continue reading...

The Reduction of Forces in the US Army

Killo Gibson
Excelsior College
- Introduction
The case study of organization behavior that attracted me to investigate on is the “Reduction of Forces in the US Army”. The problem statement I want to specify is that the financial cost of US army has upsurged. The managerial issues are primarily being identified as the cause of this situation. While we want to cut off the military budget, we cannot ignore that the army is a cornerstone of one country that cannot be bargained. Therefore, it comes to strategically analyze the organizational problems in its leadership style, culture, communication and organizational Continue reading...

Virgin America

Abstract
This paper is on the topic of Virgin America and its organizational analysis. The first section of this paper will discuss the overview of Virgin America with its brief history. In addition, this section will cover organizational life cycle, products and services and Virgin America’s geographical market. The second section of this paper will discuss the external environment of Virgin America and the level of environmental uncertainty the organization faces. The following section will cover the organizational structure of Virgin America and the implications of their structure. The next section will discuss the organizational culture of the Continue reading...

Introduction/ Background

Internal auditing plays a crucial role in businesses and the processes of financial reporting of public sectors. The internal auditors serve a vital role in monitoring the risk profile of the company and identifying the areas on which to improve the risk management. The objective of internal auditing is essentially to improve the organizational effectiveness and efficiency through constructive criticism. Of late, internal auditing has turned into an essential control mechanism in both private and public sectors. However, there have been few academic studies that have been conducted on the internal auditing effectiveness in the governance of the public Continue reading...

Warehousing is a process that involves the storage of wares or merchandise in large scale, in an orderly and systematic manner, for the sole purpose of making them suitably available when they are needed. Ideally, it involves a preservation process of goods in bulk from the moment of purchase or manufacture up to the time when their need arises. Warehousing is one crucial component of trade that demands great mastery and dedication if trade is to be successful (Nelson, 2000). This is because it creates utility of time by providing an over pass between manufacture and final use of Continue reading...

Communication in Nursing

The basic communication elements are (1) the sender, (2) the channel, (3) the receiver, and (4) the message. All of those elements need to be unambiguous to achieve effective communication, which means that the sender must send a clear message to the receiver through an appropriate channel. Effective communication is critical in healthcare because it affects patient safety, treatment outcomes, conflict resolution, and job satisfaction. However, various factors other than the basic communication elements affect the quality of communication in healthcare. Those factors include the organisational structure, leadership and management styles, organisational culture, staff motivation, and the organisational goals.

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Problem Outline

Cox’s Container Company (CCC) is a medium size manufacturing company that produces both large and small containers. In the last few years, the company’s profitability has gone down due to increased competition from similar companies that have reduced CCC profit margins.
CCC needs to change its culture and structure if it is to remain profitable and therein lays the problem. The employees are not willing to implement the new changes and thus they are not cooperating. The new management team has not introduced the changes well since it has not consulted any of the employees. There has Continue reading...

In this discussion about organizational structure, there will be two different articles discussing separate approaches to and implications of organizational structure: the first, written by Ramachandran et al. (2011) is entitled, “Organisational culture: An exploratory study comparing faculties' perspectives within public and private universities in Malaysia.” The second, written by Macintosh and Doherty (2007), is entitled “Extending the scope of organisational culture: The external perception of an internal phenomenon.” Each approaches the issue of organizational structure differently, and each presents important implications regarding the structure of different organizational groups.
[Main findings] Ramachandran et al. (2011) are primarily concerned with Continue reading...

Mercedes Bens is a global automobile company dealing in different types of automobiles ranging from bicycles, motor bicycles, personal vehicles, and organizational vehicles to sports cars. Mercedes Benz operates in many countries and it mainly sells through business demand policies. The organizational beliefs in the company essentially place the company in the global business scenario because of their universal nature. However, most of the organizational beliefs rest with the people dealing with marketing and sales. The company deals in production and sales of automobiles to various people and organizations worldwide. The organizational structure of the company mainly relies on Continue reading...

INTERNAL MANAGEMENT

Human Resource Management (HRM) went through the process of transformation over the past decades, which transformed it from supportive administrative function into a strategic element of the companies. This process was majorly determined by the changing and increasingly complex external business landscape, where the competitive advantage of the companies, based on price and product availability could no longer sustain and guarantee long-term profitability and effectiveness (Boxhall and Purcell, 2011; Pravin, 2010). With that in mind, more and more organizations started to realize the role of human capital as a core strategic asset and resource of the organizations. This realization Continue reading...

Executive Summary

This report shows the purported business plan of Nerd Patrol, a partnership business formed by three friends- John, Mary and Nabil. The business will be on hardware and software services, debugging, networking and franchise sales. The strategy to be adopted by the company would be using innovativeness in creating top quality for clients. Financial discipline would be adhered to. The long term goal of the business is to grow and start manufacturing innovative hardware components and software programming. Each role of active and passive managers is spelt out in this report. Employees would constitute of four units – computer engineers, Continue reading...

Management Accounting for Business Decisions

Executive Summary
This report is very important from the management’s point of view because of the reason that it thoroughly focused on all the major organizational structure, system and the policies of the business. In this report, full analysis of the repair segment, conversion segment, administration department, existing services and inventory management procedures has been made. Moreover, weak areas have been identified, and full recommendations have been made at the ending part of this report in order to convert the weak sections into the stronger section. Overall, this report will provide a clear cut guideline regarding what is Continue reading...

Introduction

The movie Apollo 13 is based on the true account of the unfortunate Apollo mission of NASA. The movie opens with Astronaut Jim Lovell (Tom Hanks) who is enjoying a party to celebrate the success of Apollo 11 lunar mission. The story subsequently revolves to tell the tale of the third mission of landing in the moon which would be led by Astronaut Jim Lovell, Fred Haise (Bill Paxton) lunar module driver and Kevin Bacon as Jack Swivert, who is the command module pilot. The mission is smooth until the crew is threatened due to the explosion of an Continue reading...

Interviews form a great avenue through which one can gain first hand information from a person who is directly involved in the field. Due to the involvement of such people in a practical world, they are able to offer the plausible responses which can act as an eye opener to the interviewer. The questions below were used to as guiding questions while interviewing three managers from reputable companies seeking to know how they have been successful in managing general organizational relationships and employees amidst the growing trend of employee and labor unions in the federal state. The first respondent, Continue reading...

Business Proposal – Induction Program Implementation

Executive Summary
Crude BTL requires an induction program for answering the challenges of remaining competitive and increasing its performances in the light of its resent extension into new emerging markets. The induction program is meant to assure a unitary working process across Crude BTL’s subsidiary, enhancing the employees’ feeling of belonging, their motivation and professional results, which contribute to the overall increased clients’ satisfaction and organizational performances.
The guidance of the induction program should be assigned to the Internal Communications Specialists, making sure to convey to newcomers the company’s history, policies, values, organizational structure and the main Continue reading...

Zappos, an online retailer in Las Vegas that sells shoes, handbags, watches and other accessories online is challenged to be online service leader. Sustainability in the global market is one of the biggest challenges for Zappos. The call center employees need to have a lot of imagination skills, and the HR in Zappos recruits people who can convince the customer to buy different products. Human resource systems develop organizational competencies, such as managerial, input-based, and transformational, which yield sustained competitive advantage for a firm (Lado, Wilson 1994). In my opinion, the HR practices can meet these challenges by recruiting Continue reading...

Introduction

Nurses play a crucial role in the health care sector. In the recent years, there have been a shortage of nurses, and this has resulted in many researches to identify some of the factors that may be causing the low numbers of students opting to take nursing courses. Most of the nurses in service are old, and will soon retire. It is therefore, crucial to identify some of the factors that cause this profession to experience such a high shortage of nurses. The article by Laschinger explores how graduate nurses view their jobs. It focuses on job dissatisfaction, and Continue reading...

The Mission and Value of Google Company

The corporate culture and mission of Google Company reflects a philosophy of creating money without doing wickedness or evil. Moreover, work must be challenging and fun. At Google, these beliefs dictate life. The Google’s Inc certified mission statement is arranging or organizing information of the world and making it globally useful and accessible (Corporate Information 3). It has a value of no retaliation. Google Company forbids retaliation against any employee within the firm who participates in or reports an investigation enquiry of a likely violation of their code (Google’s Corporate Information 10).

History of the Google Company

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Abstract

Ethics is an integral part of a corporation’s effort to ensure all its services are accomplished with an act of good faith and acceptable to all the parties. In as much as ethics can be described as an individual’s personal judgment on the right course of action when presented with a specific situation, it is important that we evaluate the effect of every activity we do on others. The convergence of different forms of technological inventions has transformed the world. Sikorsky Aviation Company is evaluated with respect to the effect of their operations and strategies to the Continue reading...

Introduction

Leadership entails the ability to influence individuals or groups towards the achievement of the organizational goals. It helps in shaping the goals of a group or organization and motivates behavior towards the achievement of these goals. This is accompanied by the assistance of defining the group or organizational culture with the main aim of influencing. Leaders appointed to a certain position in the organization carry the mandate of recognizing that a functional and constructive organizational culture plays an important role in ensuring that their organizations perform to their potential (Daft, 2011). Over the years, this is an issue that Continue reading...

Introduction

Southwest Airlines is a passenger airline that provides air transport services in the United States of America. The airline has been a role model for not only other domestic airlines but also other businesses from different industries. The company has witnessed massive growth and development throughout the years and part of this growth has been attributed to the company’s overall organizational structure and design. The fact that the company belongs to the “low cost” market segment has also been a contributing factor to its success. This paper seeks to conduct a comprehensive analysis of Southwest Airline organization structure Continue reading...

IMAGES OF ORGANIZATION

Overview:
Gareth Morgan’s Images of an Organization was published in January 1997. At that time, it truly revolutionized the way people thought about business structures and corporate cultures. It is published by Sage Publications and categorized as a book on Management, Organizational Behavior and Business Ethics. The new Second Edition includes volume updates while retaining its original framework. Part I begins with and overview and introduces the concept that a business organization can be viewed as a machine, organism, brain, culture, political system, psychic prison, flux and transformation, and instrument of domination. . It then goes on to provide Continue reading...

Introduction

Organizing is a managerial function that comes after the planning function. Organizing is focused on incorporating three vital resources which are; human, financial and physical resources so as to achieve the organizational goals and objectives. Thus, organizing as a function seeks to point out the job roles, the related positions and the synchronization between responsibility and authority. The majority of organizations strive to ensure a comprehensive organizing function which would be beneficial in quite a number of ways. To begin with, organizing is important in promoting specialization of employment by enabling the division of labor into departments and units. Continue reading...

Introduction

Leadership encompasses a collective and collaborative process focused on relationships and network (Kezar , Carducci, & McGavin, 2011). This paper is presents a detailed exploration of leadership in organizations drawing inferences from Virgin Atlantic’s president’s leadership skills. The subsequent part presents an evaluation of the leadership style adopted by Sir. Richard Branson-the president of Virgin Atlantic Airlines. Later, the organizational structure and cultural framework of Virgin Atlantic is also presented. In due course, a discussion on the leadership skills practiced by Sir. Richard Branson is presented followed by discussions on additional leadership skills. The paper concludes with a presentation Continue reading...

Companies are undergoing theatrical changes, which have noteworthy implications for how their human resources should be managed and for how human resource function is best managed and organized. Thus, the forces driving forces for change comprise rapid deployment of information technology, the globalization of the economy as well as the increasingly competitive dynamic business settings, which companies face. In addition, there is growing the consensus that efficient human capital is vital to organization’s success and that the HR functions’ focus should be more strategic. The demands on human resources function have never been greater. Since 1970, the global Continue reading...

Alcan has no centralized IT management framework. As a matter of fact responsibility of IT is shared among various business groups. Every business entity functions independently with its own strategic IT plan, infrastructure needs, IT applications and services. The needs of the specific business group determine the IT objectives pursued by the organization. This culture of autonomy has been reinforced by mergers and acquisitions in its lifetime.
Autonomy in the management of IT services can be beneficial as well as detrimental. A decentralized management of IT services gives the organization absolute fief to design and tailor its IT services Continue reading...

This chapter also gives an analysis concerning the transformation of a floor cleaner chemical to be used as a mouth wash. This took place through the influence of advertisements on market demand. This, therefore, shows the way the false information can be manipulated through the power of advertisements. The issue of bad breath was portrayed as a very big problem in order to promote the sales of the floor clearer for mouth washing. The truth can, therefore, be manipulated in order to make money or profits in the economy. The impact of the advertisement on the demand for commodities Continue reading...

Principles of Effective Time Management Violated by Chet

Chet is not managing his time effectively because he is violating two key principles of effective time management: (1) spending some of his time on important tasks and (2) failure to comfortably say NO (Whetten and Cameron 121). From the case study, Chet is violating the first principle because he is spending all his time on urgent tasks. He also violating principle two because he is seen trying to solve everything that is presented to him.

Rules of Efficient Time Management for Managers Violated by Chet

Firstly, Chet is violating the principle of delegation (Whetten and Cameron 127). From the case study, he seems to be in control of Continue reading...

Background

The Healthcare One health care systems is a non-profit, independent health care organization. We are known for the highest quality of patient care. Our dedication to excellence, compassion and innovation is rooted in our corporate culture. Also, our devotion to art and science of healing will guide us towards creation of our mission and vision. By creating a clear mission and vision statements, we intend to powerfully communicate our intentions, and also to motive our team to realize its goals.

Mission and Vision

Mission
Our mission statement defines our purpose and our primary objectives. It is for internal reflection – to define key Continue reading...

Introduction

In the past decade business conditions, increasing pressure of international economic and social environment as well as internal complexity of the companies determined greater focus on Human Resource Management (HRM) agendas and strategies. Human capital and internal expertise developed by organizations help companies not only to offer a competitive edge but to invest in sustainable organizational growth with a high level of core and unique capabilities. Latest developments in the HRM field demonstrate that effective planning, recruitment and training and development programs can make a significant contribution to the cost-focused strategies and increase operational and commercial productivity of the Continue reading...

Management Accounting Literature Review

The business environment in Malaysia has experienced several changes over the recent years. These changes have been brought about by globalization that has introduced new technologies in the country. The technologies have opened the business environment in Malaysia to new challenges and competitive forces. The central Government economic policy has helped business people to mitigate challenges associated with management accounting. The policy is in line with the country’s vision 2020, which aims at reforming the management of its resources, and it has contributed greatly to the manufacturing industry in the country. The manufacturing industry is a key contributor Continue reading...

Walt Disney is an international leading family entertainment company that has five segments of business (Slide, 1998). The segments are media networks, interactive media, parks and resorts, consumer products and studio entertainments (Booker, 2011). In 2011, it was estimated to be over $40 billion in worth. Lucas film, on the other hand, is a fully integrated family entertainment, which is privately owned by George Lucas. The company’s activities are television production, motion picture, industrial light and magic, and Skywalker sound. Walt Disney Company agreed to acquire Lucas Film Company in stock and cash basis.
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Health Care System: A Comparison

There are distinct operational characteristics between the American health care systems with that of other countries. Virtually, the health sector is an important department covered by each state a protection plan for its citizens. How the government accomplishes this is divergent from a systematic point of view. Some countries develop a compact healthcare system which is used all over the country while others establish a blend of numerous systems that could have been adopted or formulated. The American Healthcare system is unique in its own way given that it composes of formulated systems to advantage its population in the Continue reading...

The concept of enterprise architecture plainly refers to the extensive use of data management systems in the organization of businesses. A single corporation may feel the need to harmonize different types of data from its constituents for the purposes of decision-making. Enterprise architecture proves to be the best solution from Polizzi’s perspective. Through this, he argues that the company will be able to integrate the different aspects of its stretching potential into a single managerial core. As a result of its increased business transactions, it is unable to organize its sales and product variability and seeks to solve Continue reading...

Organization structure

Introduction
Marriott Hotels and Resorts is an international flagship brand boasting full-service resorts and hotels. This brand is constantly expanding in order to conquer new territories. The new division in the Marriott Hotels and Resorts is inspired by a gap in the hotel industry. With increasing demand for tourist resorts around the world, the international flagship company is inspired to start a new division to cater to the gap. In this respect, Marriott Hospitality and Leisure will add to the growing list of properties under the Marriott Hotels and Resorts portfolio. Additionally, the division will autonomously carry out its Continue reading...

Organizational Structure and Culture

Introduction
The shared norms and values of an organization not only affect how the organization is perceived externally but also its performance and innovativeness. Organizational culture galvanizes everyone in the organization through common assumptions, shared norm and values. Different tasks are shared accordingly using different criteria. The organizational structure entails the task allocation, supervision and coordination, all which are aimed towards the realization of organizational goals. Organizational culture and structure are two concepts that intimate how the employees are organized around tasks in line with the norms of an organization to achieve excellence.

Organizational cultures

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