| Creates a more uniform organization. More efficient operations and customer-driven business processes. Firmwide information for imporved decision making.…
A structure depends on the organization 's objectives and strategy. In a centralized structure, the top layer of management has most of the decision making power and has tight control over departments and divisions. In a decentralized structure, the decision making power is distributed and the departments and divisions may have different degrees of independence.…
Tesco has a hierarchical structure. Large, complex organisations often require a taller hierarchy. The adavantages of this structure is :…
The delegation of authority within this company can be defined as decentralization as many of the employees who are closest to the problem which has been raised are given the authorization to make the decisions necessary to solve the problem. Through this approach NSC has encouraged the development of the capabilities of its employees in all departments, which in turn has lead to much faster decision making as well as customers being highly…
Firstly, companies that are geographically dispersed are made more manageable with good networks. Secondly, they help trim down middle management for top-heavy companies and lastly, they help break down the barriers between divisions within a company.…
Decentralization in business can be very advantageous to the corporation because it can let those who are closer to the problem identify a way to solve it. In the past leaders of business dictated everything the business did and as the business grew, those leaders became more and more out of touch with many things, including competition, customer issues, and technological changes. When the leadership was out of touch with these areas, smaller, more efficient companies became able to capture some of the…
1). The qualitative aspects could be affected as well. The choice for the overall organizational structure can determine the tone within the organization and can positively or negatively affect its productivity. The leaders or owners, which ever may be the case, need to take a careful look at the organization and its mission, vision, and goals to determine which structure best fits.…
* It makes an organization sluggish in responding to changing conditions because of the time it takes for the review/approval process to run up all the layers of the management bureaucracy.…
Combinations of decentralized and centralized decision making within an organization related to its primary line of operations functions can be utilized. Important decisions should be reserved to department heads and the expertise of front line staff. Policy and operational decisions are reserved for city/county managers because of the need for accountability to elected officials and the community. Decentralization offers better coordination and conformity when decisions come from one point of the organization, with avoidance of contradictory decisions from different parts of the organization, more expertise and specialization by staff, specific supervisor and manager knowledge and perspective (Emerson, Menkus, and Van Ness, p. 39,…
Identify, in 200 to 300 words, the advantages and disadvantages of each of the following organizational structures:…
Decentralisation is the process of redistributing or dispersing functions, powers, people or things away from a central location or authority. Central Business Districts are facing a decline in retail and services as counter-urbanisation and sub-urbanisation occurs. Although decentralisation can be negative for some cities such as Manchester, some areas are…
The organizational structure that I chose to apply to my company, Best Buy is the Distribution of Authority also referred to as Centralization or Decentralization. Most organizations are neither one of these key elements as they use both aspects of it to balance it out. Best Buy is no exception; they are a more centralized structure however, their information cascades from the Board of Directors to Store level employees. Best Buy has a Board of Directors that is elected by the shareholders to…
Advantages-more flexible than departmentalization, more than one person in charge that one can go to for assistance, wider choice for employees that fit the need.…
Second reasons which adopting centralized authority to overcome the problem is because centralized authority able to help OnTarget to lower administrative costs. The different operating units of OnTarget currently was order their materials separately and without any coordination. This make the OnTarget have to make 3 times of order, 3 times of purchase, 3 times of delivery, 3 times of payment making and 3 times of recordkeeping. These administrative activities costs can be large amount in long term and which is unfavorable for…
To begin with, a centralized structure may not be very suitable to this business. With a centralized structure, there will be more supervision and less flexibility, therefore managers will have to look for permission from a superior head office if they want to change or do something dissimilar. This will be negative to the cinema since it will delay decision making and make the cinemas less responsive to changes in the market.…