The case learning objective which relates to Chapter 8 and the case of IKEA’s Swedish Ways is pressures for cost reductions and local responsiveness. The main strategic issue at IKEA was the fact that they largely ignored the rule that they needed to tailor the product line. They did this to stick to their founder’s vision of "typically Swedish" products wherever in the world they were going to sell. This strategy proved to work in all other countries except when they entered North America‚ particularly
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Systems in Organizational Design and Applied Systems Thinking CATALOG DESCRIPTION Focus on foundations of Information Systems Management covering the essential concepts in Information Technology Management like planning‚ organizing‚ leading and controlling with strong practical orientation. A systemic approach to organizational structures considering information hierarchy around modern day constraints. Analysis and design of information systems as meshed with organizational design. Basic information
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Reading Summary Basic Challenges of Organizational Design Basic Challenges of Organizational Design Differentiation:- It is the process by which organization allocates people and resources to organizational task and establishes the task and authority relationships that allow the organization to achieve its goals. Organizational Roles An organizational role is a set of task-related behavior required of a person by his or her position in an organization. Organizational structure is based on a system of
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Organizational Behavior and the Failure of Enron Germaine Washington LDR/531 February 13‚ 2012 James Kaczynski Organizational Design and the Failure of Enron This is an analysis of how the application of specific organizational-behavior theories could have predicted the failure of Enron. Although there are many types of core topics of organizational behavior‚ the focus of this study will be on how leader behavior and power‚ and motivation contributed to the bankruptcy of Enron. In addition
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Ref. http://www.thetimes100.co.uk/case-study--swot-analysis-sustainable-business-planning--110-368-2.php IKEA’s goals of sustainability and environmental design are central to its business strategy. It has launched a new sustainability plan to take the company through to 2015. This will combine social‚ environmental and economic issues. IKEA uses SWOT analysis to help it reach its objectives. This is a strategic planning tool. It helps the business to focus on key issues. SWOT is the first
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Factors Affecting Organizational Design Although many things can affect the choice of an appropriate structure for an organization‚ the following five factors are the most common: size‚ life cycle‚ strategy‚ environment‚ and technology. Organizational size The larger an organization becomes‚ the more complicated its structure. When an organization is small — such as a single retail store‚ a two-person consulting firm‚ or a restaurant — its structure can be simple. In reality‚ if the organization
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Job design: Job design is simply the designing of job and this is the process that is next to job analysis. Job design involves step-by-step or systematic attempts to organize tasks‚ duties and responsibilities into a unit of work to achieve certain objectives. Job design makes the job highly specialized and well designed jobs are important in attracting and retaining a motivated work force. Elements of Job Design Job Design is affected by 3 categories of factors/elements: • Organizational elements
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Organizational design and structure allow a company to organize itself into different divisions that make work and labor occur more efficiently. Departmentalization is a method of subdividing work into separate organizational units that perform particular tasks. Pfizer uses product departmentalization in order to organize the company into separate units that produce particular products or services. Pfizer manages its operations through five divisions: Primary Care‚ Specialty Care and Oncology‚ Established
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Bibliography: Asian info n.d. Summary of Japan’s economy. Cited from (01.05.2009) http://www.asianinfo.org/asianinfo/japan/pro-economy.htm Bjorkman‚ I Capell‚ K. (26.04.2006). Ikea’s New plan for Japan. Cited from (01.05.2009) http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/apr2006/gb20060426_821825.htm Dahlvig‚ A.‚ Kling‚ K De Mooij‚ M. (1998). Global marketing and advertising: Understanding Cultural Paradoxes. California: SAGE
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1. Discuss IKEA’s country-specific advantages and its firm-specific advantages. IKEA experiences many country-specific advantages. First‚ IKEA’s location in Europe made it relatively painless for the company to spread throughout the rest of Europe. Along similar lines‚ IKEA has been able to send employees who know the local language of foreign locations to set up stores‚ bringing the IKEA philosophy and standard practices along with them. IKEA also embraced its advantage of its heritage‚ focusing
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