1.1 Describe the structure and culture of the company and evaluate the inter-relationships between the different process and functions.
Answer:
Understanding the Structure
In a small business, employees learn whether the organizational structure provides a stable culture for everyone. For example, if a business owner sets up the wrong kind of structure, the results can be ineffective communication and slow work processes. A business owner can improve the company culture by changing which employee is responsible for a specific duty. For example, one employee who does payroll is not efficient at his duty. The owner can give the payroll job to another worker, outsource payroll or change the way the current employee does payroll, such as by investing in new payroll software and sending the employee to training to learn it. One of these choices might ensure that payroll is done more efficiently, but it might also change how duties are divided in the company.
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Organization structure
The structure of a business organization is determined by: * Its mission * What it does * Its size * Where it operates * Who it deals * Its culture * Technology * The complexity of its operations * Its history and future expectations
Definition
Culture: is the commonly held and relatively stable beliefs, attitudes and values that exist within the organization.
Culture in an organization is the sum total of the beliefs, knowledge, attitudes of mind and customs to which people are exposed. Mintzberg refers to organisations as having an ideology. Ideology is a stronger word than culture: it means a set of beliefs, which are used to justify the position and activities of a ruling group.
Culture is both internal to an organization and external to it. There are certain patterns of behavior, assumptions and beliefs which members of the organization