Tucker Company

Semester 1, 2013. Assessment Task 1: Case study (Worth 20%).
Tucker Company case study, Samson & Daft (2012), pp.395-396.
|Assessment Criteria |HD |D |C |P |MF |F |
|Q1. Organisational structure and rationale. | | | | | | |
|Tucker organisation chart (3 marks). | | | | | | |
|Discussion of possible reasons why the laboratory was to be located in the military jet engine | | | | | | |
|division (3 marks). | | | | | | |
| Q2. Personalities, roles and structure. | | | | | | |
|Analysis of conflict between Hodge and Franklin: personalities, job roles or organisational | | | | | | |
|structure? (4 marks). | | | | | | |
|Q3. Resolving the problem. | | | | | | |
|New organisation chart showing laboratory providing equal service to all divisions and the | | | | | | |
|placement of Hodge and Franklin on the chart (3 marks) | | | | | | |
|Discussion of advantages and disadvantages of the student’s proposed structure versus the | | | | | | |
|previous structure (4 marks). | | | | | | |