An organizational structure is the outline of a company’s framework and guidelines for managing business operations. Organizations are usually responsible for creating their companies’ organizational structure‚ which is usually an extension of the owner’s or board’s personality‚ management style and characteristics. Two types of organizational structures are found in the business environment: centralized and decentralized. Each structure offers advantages and disadvantages for organizations.
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Why did Unilever’s decentralized organizational structure make sense from the 1950’s through the 1970’s? Why did this structure start to create problems for the company in the 1980’s? Ans: Because then there was almost no competition in the markets Unilever was targeting‚ they mostly maintained the largest market share and there was probably not so much international influence from other multinationals. 1. The structure began to create problems for the company because influencing other multinationals
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believe Mr. Edmondson’s apology to the board for the bad performance of the company can be considered as an ethical behavior because he did not try to cover up his fault. What RadioShack could have done to prevent this kind of incident is to apply stricter rules
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such authority to be dispersed by extension and delegation throughout all levels of management. There are advantages as well as disadvantages of both types of structures. A pure form of centralization is not practical except in small companies and pure form of decentralization almost never exists. However‚ the type of organizational structure would determine the degree of centralization or the degree of decentralization. As the organizations grow bigger by expansion‚ mergers or acquisitions‚ decentralization
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3.2 DECENTRALISED PLANNING India is rightly regarded as the land of villages. In a country where 72.22% of the population (2001 Census) lives in 5‚80‚781 villages‚ the importance of rural local government popularly known as Panchayati Raj in India‚ is self-evident. Indeed‚ the idea of rural local government is part of a larger concern for social & economic amelioration of the people‚ a task to which the country is irrevocably committed. The Panchayats have been among the oldest political institutions
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name a few‚ deemed it necessary construct and instill a government that would protect the individual rights of American citizens while avoiding a tyrannical government from taking charge of the nation. The first attempt of government‚ lead to a decentralized government brought in place by the Articles of Confederation. The Articles of Confederation called for states being sovereign and independent because of the fear of a central government. The issue the opposition
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were experienced under the Article of Confederation. A decentralized government means that the states holds the power of governing the people as opposed to a centralized government‚ where the national government will rule all the states. The tension between decentralized and centralized power still exists. Some problems of decentralized power that existed under the Article of Confederation were tax‚ leadership‚ and law. Being a decentralized power did not give the national government direct authority
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of unsuccessful businesses often fail to make changes that ultimately lead to failure. RadioShack is a failing organization whose leadership did not make changes to prevent the impending failure. Analysis of successful organization’s leadership‚ behavior‚ structure‚ and culture could be used as a reference to changing of failed businesses. The following paper will analyze reasons for success and failure
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What is Sectoral Planning and Spatial Planning? When planning is done with a vision and mission to develop a particular sector only then the plan becomes a Setoral Plan. In Setoral Planning excessive concentration is given in economic activities of the metropolitan regions. In India it has benefitted the growth and development of Metro regions but failed to develop the rural and backward regions. In India 70% of the people live in rural area. To develop India the plan should be made to develop the
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Aric Donnelly‚ Director of Human Resources Date: 01/25/2012 Subject: New Layoff Recommendation E-Layoff PR issue RadioShack Corp. took a PR hit with the layoff notices being delivered by e-mail. The media decided to leave out all of the important details and portrayed RadioShack as heartless and “dehumanizing”. This bad PR leads to a bad image and lowered sales. RadioShack is already struggling to compete with big names like Best Buy and retail stores with large electronics departments. Since
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