Unit 1 P3 P4
Unit 1 – The Business Environment
Assignment: 2 (P3) (P4)
Both businesses BP and the BBC have organisational structures. The reason of an organisational is to put in order the workforce to make sure that the organisation is capable to complete vital tasks and goals. Creating a structure with clear roles, functions and levels of authority and systems help make sure employees are working together as a team to accomplish everything the business must do. The term span of control is the number of people that one manger on the hierarchy looks after. The more people under the control of one manager the wider the span of control. Less people mean a narrower span of control. For example a BP the board of directors have a large span of control as they look after the chief executive and he/she controls executive committee. Whereas the manager of refining and marketing only has to look after the employees in that department meaning the manager has a narrow span of control.
The term span of control is the number of people that one manger on the hierarchy looks after. The more people under the control of one manager the wider the span of control. Less people mean a narrower span of control. For example a BP the board of directors have a large span of control as they look after the chief executive and he/she controls executive committee. Whereas the manager of refining and marketing only has to look after the employees in that department meaning the manager has a narrow span of control.
Within an organisational structure there are levels of hierarchy. Levels of hierarchy show which levels of management and employees report to whom. For example at BP employee will have to report to their department manager, who will then report to managers and executives, who then have to report to the Chief Executive Officer, who then has to report to the Board of Directors. At the BBC the employees in each department; Operations, BBC North, Finance, Vision,
Assignment: 2 (P3) (P4)
Both businesses BP and the BBC have organisational structures. The reason of an organisational is to put in order the workforce to make sure that the organisation is capable to complete vital tasks and goals. Creating a structure with clear roles, functions and levels of authority and systems help make sure employees are working together as a team to accomplish everything the business must do. The term span of control is the number of people that one manger on the hierarchy looks after. The more people under the control of one manager the wider the span of control. Less people mean a narrower span of control. For example a BP the board of directors have a large span of control as they look after the chief executive and he/she controls executive committee. Whereas the manager of refining and marketing only has to look after the employees in that department meaning the manager has a narrow span of control.
The term span of control is the number of people that one manger on the hierarchy looks after. The more people under the control of one manager the wider the span of control. Less people mean a narrower span of control. For example a BP the board of directors have a large span of control as they look after the chief executive and he/she controls executive committee. Whereas the manager of refining and marketing only has to look after the employees in that department meaning the manager has a narrow span of control.
Within an organisational structure there are levels of hierarchy. Levels of hierarchy show which levels of management and employees report to whom. For example at BP employee will have to report to their department manager, who will then report to managers and executives, who then have to report to the Chief Executive Officer, who then has to report to the Board of Directors. At the BBC the employees in each department; Operations, BBC North, Finance, Vision,