Xacc/280 Week 3 Paper

Week 3 DQ

Organization is a social unit of people that is structured and managed to meet a need or to pursue collective goals. (Businessdictionary.com)

Organization as a structure distributes responsibilities among the members of the company (child 2005, p.6). By allocating people and recourses to the necessary tasks and designating responsibilities, the organization contributes to the successful implementations of its goals.

While organization as a process focus more closely on behaviors, clarify to people what is expected from them. There are 3 key factors to organizing a process: 1- integration, 2- control, 3- reward. (child2005, p.8)

By these definitions we can simplify the difference by saying that structure can be the “frame” of the organization while process is the collaboration between the divisions in the frame. One works in Hierarchy while the other delegates amongst a flat panel.
As one of the largest companies in food industries, it has found limitations to the hierarchical pyramid. So in 2002 it implemented a program called “Nestle on the move” which consists of two subdivision programs:” Leadership program” & “Develop people initiative program”. With this program the company moved from hierarchical structure to a flat structure where managers have more direct reports, who then must act independently. Nestle has found 7 limitations to the pyramidal model: vertical career path – command communication – company experience – internal competition – silo thinking – obedience orientation & delegation of task rather than