Multimedia Industry Report
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Industrial Tech Report
Question:
A company within your focus area is looking at expanding. Discuss the structural, technical, personnel, OHS and environmental factors that they need to consider prior to expanding their business. Business expansion is part of the growth process of a business, but before executing the expansion process the business needs to consider various factors such as structural, technical, personnel, OHS and environmental in order to achieve a successful expansion.
Structural
When a business expands, the business has to consider and evaluate the possible affects upon the structural organization, management and restructure if necessary to meet productivity and efficiency. As the business expands, the size of business will increase along with the number of employees. It is important for a business to deliver its messages and orders clearly and efficiently throughout the business. If not, the business will waste time on solving disputes and lose profit due to low productivity from the efficient delivery of messages and poor communication. To solve this problem, the business will have to come up with the most suitable organization structure have efficient management which leads to productivity and efficiency.
The first structure is the hierarchical structure. This structure specializes in accountability, authority, a rigid lines of communication, and specialization of labour. This structure will group people according to the specialised functions they perform and even within each function areas there are further sub-divided into specialised jobs. This allows for greater productivity through specialization of labour, as each worker is good at what they do, so they can do it faster and better.
This also allows for chains of command, a system that determines responsibility, supervision and accountability of members of the organization. A example of this structure is Ford, with it’s assembly line of
Industrial Tech Report
Question:
A company within your focus area is looking at expanding. Discuss the structural, technical, personnel, OHS and environmental factors that they need to consider prior to expanding their business. Business expansion is part of the growth process of a business, but before executing the expansion process the business needs to consider various factors such as structural, technical, personnel, OHS and environmental in order to achieve a successful expansion.
Structural
When a business expands, the business has to consider and evaluate the possible affects upon the structural organization, management and restructure if necessary to meet productivity and efficiency. As the business expands, the size of business will increase along with the number of employees. It is important for a business to deliver its messages and orders clearly and efficiently throughout the business. If not, the business will waste time on solving disputes and lose profit due to low productivity from the efficient delivery of messages and poor communication. To solve this problem, the business will have to come up with the most suitable organization structure have efficient management which leads to productivity and efficiency.
The first structure is the hierarchical structure. This structure specializes in accountability, authority, a rigid lines of communication, and specialization of labour. This structure will group people according to the specialised functions they perform and even within each function areas there are further sub-divided into specialised jobs. This allows for greater productivity through specialization of labour, as each worker is good at what they do, so they can do it faster and better.
This also allows for chains of command, a system that determines responsibility, supervision and accountability of members of the organization. A example of this structure is Ford, with it’s assembly line of