founding as one-person, dorm-room operation in 1984. As the company has grown, Dell’s structure, control systems, and culture has changed to keep the firm on track to reaching its strategic goals. Michael Dell hired managers with computer industry experience from firms such as IBM and Compaq. Together, they formed a functional structure with a taller hierarchy, in which Michael Dell delegated authority to his functional managers. Dell’s organizational culture emphasized hard work and customer service
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Functional Organization Structure Functional organizations are structured around job functions. This type of business structure is suitable for small to medium-sized businesses that do not have a wide range of products or production requirements. Product Organization Structure Product organization structures lend well to organizations such as department stores and supermarkets. When these organizations operate in multiple regions, a hybrid between geographical and product organization structures
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organizational structure their organization. Next, it discusses three components of organizational design: job design, grouping jobs into functions and divisions, and the coordination of functions and divisions. The chapter closes with a discussion of integrating mechanisms and the growing popularity of global strategic alliances and business-to-business network structures. LEARNING OBJECTIVES 1. Identify the factors that influence managers’ choice of an organizational structure. (LO1) 2
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1. The structure of a simple organization • A. limits the owner's(s') control • B. correct maximizes the owner's(s') control • C. minimizes the owner's(s') control • D. slightly increases the owner's(s') control Correct : Since simple organizations tend to be made up of one or a few owners and just a few employees, the owner’s(s’) level of control is extremely high. Materials • Simple Organizational Structure 2. This structure is one in which a set of relatively autonomous
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Organizational Structure Paper Kristin Arzaga MGT/230 August 28, 2013 Organizational Structure Paper Daimler Truck is widely regarded as the world’s highest quality truck producer. The customer base of the Daimler truck company includes nearly every country in the world. The parent company, Daimler AG distributes a total of more than 100 individual vehicle designs, including cars, vans, trucks, and buses in about 200 countries throughout the world. The models represented by Daimler incorporate
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Globalization is the process of closer integration and exchange between different countries and people worldwide, made possible by falling trade and investment barriers, tremendous advances in telecommunications and drastic reductions in transportation costs. Integration-Responsiveness Framework, strategy framework that juxtaposes the pressures an MNE faces for cost reductions and local responsiveness to derive four different strategies to gain and sustain competing advantage when competing globally:
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Organizational Structure The following paragraphs will describe the organizational structure of Summerlin Hospital and Medical Center that is part of Universal Health Services. “Universal Health Services, Inc. (UHS) is one of the nation's largest healthcare management companies, operating through its subsidiaries acute care hospitals, behavioral health facilities and ambulatory centers nationwide, in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Founded in 1978 by Alan B. Miller, Chairman and
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| | |Managing Conflict | | |Matching Structure with Strategy | | |Restructuring, Reengineering, and E-Engineering | |
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Chapter 1: business organisation Organisation: * Social arrangements: have structure which enables people to work together towards the common goals. Larger organisation have formal structure, small organisations divide up the responsibilities between the concerned people. * Controlled performance: have systems and procedures to ensure that goals are achieved. * Collective goals: school main goal is to educate pupils while company goal is to make profits. “Organisations are social arrangements
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