MANAGEMENT 230 WEEK 6 ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE An organizational structure refers to the way that an organization arranges people and jobs so that its work can be performed and its goals can be met. When a work group is very small and face-to-face communication is frequent‚ formal structure may be unnecessary‚ but in a larger organization such as Barnes and Noble‚ decisions have to be made about the delegation of various tasks. Thus‚ procedures are established that assign responsibilities
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The Ford Pinto Project The Ford Motor Company has been the leading car company for many decades. In the late 1960’s early 1970’s the company was losing the battle with Japanese with the small efficient cars. Lee Iacocca‚ Chief Executive Officer the Ford Motor Company wanted a car that will be competitive to these Japanese compact cars. With this intention in mind‚ the company wanted to manufacture a sub-compact vehicle that weighs less than 2‚000 pounds and costs under $2‚000. The result is
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Examining gender as a social structure and applying gender roles poses many challenges when explaining the phenomenon of social stratification. Barbara J. Riseman explores many expanses of gender and theories’ arguing the issues and importances a social structure has on gender outcomes. Riseman discusses the four distinct social scientific theoretical traditions that explain gender: individual sex‚ whether it be social or biological; social structure creates gendered behavior; social interaction
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In my understanding of term "structure violence" is what Farmer has described through the Kidder book to explain how people living in other parts of the world (Haiti) with different social structure or political and economic system that essentially harm people by preventing them from getting their basic needs such as medical care and disease prevention. Typically word of structure means in a sense of some systematic physical forms‚ but in the Kidders book‚ it means also social arrangements that is
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on the structural perspective of the BA‟s company in these recent years. Depending on the three different CEOs in BA‚ they are the Robert Ayling‚ Rod Eddington and Willie Walsh respectively‚ this paper divided into three periods of analyzing the structures of BA. Thus‚ this
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Organizational Design and Organizational Structure 1. Organizational Design - management decisions and actions that result in a specific organization structure. Four Design Decisions 1. Division of Labor – process of dividing work into relatively specialized jobs to achieve advantages of specialization. Division of labor in organization can occur in three different ways: a. Work can be divided into different personal specialties. b. Work can be divided into different activities necessitated
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Ford Motor Company is one of the greatest automobile manufacturers of all time. They started under Henry Ford in Detroit‚ Michigan. Ford had a skill for craftsmanship when he built an experimental car in 1896. It was a twin cylinder engine with potential of 20 mph. In 1899 he left his job in order to organize the Detroit Automobile Company. Ford’s first production was in 1903‚ the Model A‚ with an under the floor engine selling for $850. In the first season it sold 1‚708 cars. After World War
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Dominance in the Automobile Market: The Early Years of Ford and General Motors Richard S. Tedlow Harvard University This paper contrasts the businessstrategics of Henry Ford and Alfred P. Sloan‚ in the automobile Jr. marketof the 1920s. The thesis that HenryFord 1 is epitomized the method of competition most familiar to ncoclassical economics. That is to say‚ his key competitive weapon was price. Alfred P. Sloan‚ Jr. beat Ford because hc understood that the nature of the market
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Estiala‚ Jessa Catherine S. MGT142 1. How would you characterize Gore’s organizational structure using terms that you have learned? For example‚ is it mechanistic or organic? How might this influence Gore’s strategy? Gore’s organizational structure is more likely a flat organization where almost everyone is equal and there’s a low power distance. Gore wants a decentralized organization where everyone can make decisions by themselves. The formalization used by Gore is the organic model. This influences
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A Centralized Structure Transforms Home Depot 1. In what ways can (a) decentralizing and (b) centralizing authority help an organization like Home Depot to improve its performance? From 2000 to 2007‚ Robert Nardelli‚ a former senior executive at GE (General Electric)‚ served as CEO of Home Depot. Almost immediately‚ he transformed Home Depot’s logistics and leadership structure from decentralized to centralized. It was one way to respond to the pressures of competition from the Internet
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