Reading Summary Basic Challenges of Organizational Design Basic Challenges of Organizational Design Differentiation:- It is the process by which organization allocates people and resources to organizational task and establishes the task and authority relationships that allow the organization to achieve its goals. Organizational Roles An organizational role is a set of task-related behavior required of a person by his or her position in an organization. Organizational structure is based on a system of
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Factors Affecting Organizational Design Although many things can affect the choice of an appropriate structure for an organization‚ the following five factors are the most common: size‚ life cycle‚ strategy‚ environment‚ and technology. Organizational size The larger an organization becomes‚ the more complicated its structure. When an organization is small — such as a single retail store‚ a two-person consulting firm‚ or a restaurant — its structure can be simple. In reality‚ if the organization
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Organizational design and structure allow a company to organize itself into different divisions that make work and labor occur more efficiently. Departmentalization is a method of subdividing work into separate organizational units that perform particular tasks. Pfizer uses product departmentalization in order to organize the company into separate units that produce particular products or services. Pfizer manages its operations through five divisions: Primary Care‚ Specialty Care and Oncology‚ Established
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Comcast Business Analysis Patricia Baskerville MGMT/521 January 30‚ 2012 Professor Samuel Cunningham Comcast Business Analysis Comcast is one of the largest video‚ broadband Internet‚ telephone‚ and cable service providers in the United States. The company is a member of the fortune 500 company as the largest and profitable companies. Comcast ranking number is 66 in the fortune 500 company and is in third
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Integrating Values - The Legality‚ Morality‚ and Social Responsibility of Comcast-NBC Universal Merger NOVA Southeastern University H. Wayne Huizenga School of Business and Entrepreneurship Abstract For the over past decade cable television industry has experienced restructuring through a large number of creative innovation‚ mergers and acquisitions. For the purpose of understanding both legal and ethical issues in regards to such a merger in the US cable television industry
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Comcast Corporation is the nation’s leading provider of cable‚ entertainment and communications products and services‚ with 24.1 million cable customers‚ 12.4 million high-speed Internet customers and 3.5 million voice customers. Comcast is principally involved in the development‚ management and operation of broadband cable networks and in the delivery of programming content. Comcast provides a wide variety of consumer products and services: Video - Comcast is the nation’s largest video provider
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Comcast is a large cable and satellite television provider in the United States. The company has been plagued with internal weaknesses and external threats in recent years and is in desperate need of turning around its customer service department as quickly as possible. There are three factors in Comcast’s microenvironment that critically affect the company and their day to day operations. One of the most important factors is their people‚ the ones working and providing customers with information
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This memo is aimed to evaluate the overall television industry today and to provide a brief overview of one of the industry leading players - Comcast Corporation’s current business situation‚ specifically‚ to examine its internal strengths and weaknesses as well as opportunities and threats in the external environment. More importantly‚ the key challenges that the company is currently facing and the potential solutions to theses problem will be discussed. The current U.S. broadcast and cable television
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Strategy Comcast has been making significant investments to enhance their products while improving the service and support being delivered to consumers. Comcast’s strategy focuses on providing consumers with the best and most content across all platforms. Their vision is to give customers exponentially more content choices – all available to consumers at the click of the remote without having to buy any additional equipment. Comcast’s strategy includes the implementation of the XFINITY brand
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Chapter 10 Basic Organizational Design Once managers are done planning‚ then what? This is when managers need to begin to “work the plan.” And the first step in doing that involves designing an appropriate organizational structure. This chapter covers the decisions involved with designing this structure. Focus on the following learning outcomes as you read and study this chapter. LEARNING OUTCOMES 10.1 Describe six key elements in organizational design. 10.2 Contrast mechanistic and
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