Unit No: 7 Assignment 2 Business Strategy Higher National Certificate in Business Year 2
Table of Contents
TASK 1 3
Culture 3
Organisational Features 5
Leadership Styles 6
TASK 2 7
Internal Resources 7
External Resources 8
TASK 3 10
Targets 10
Time-scales 11
Monitor and Control 12
BIBLIOGRAPHY 14
Select two distinctly different organisations from the FTSE 100 and consider the following requirements:
TASK 1
Contrast each organisation relating to the culture, organisational features and leadership style:
In this assignment the choice has been made to use Tesco Plc, this organisation was original identified in Assignment 1 and is a different type of organisation to BAE Systems, the other organisation chosen for this assignment. Tesco is the leading supermarket chain and supplies food and other dry goods to the general public. BAE Systems is a Defence Contractor which supplies military defence systems to the MOD and other countries Armed Forces. Therefore it could be suggested that BAE Systems and Tesco are two distinctively different organisations in very different markets. They are both large, well established and have various sites in UK, Europe and the rest of the world. Culture
Tesco has a Role Culture in their organisation and has a functional structure wit a Tall organisational structure with a narrow span of control.
It has a high level structure with the higher levels holding the departments of Finance, Purchasing, and Marketing etc which operate at a corporate level over all Tesco stores.
The individual stores each have a main store manager who operates and is supported by his first line managers, the line managers then have line employees to control or co-ordinate.
There is heavy investment in the employees by supplying training and promotion from within, it is important to Tesco that their employees know what is required from them in their job and responsibility and how they strive for excellence and customer satisfaction.
Tesco are also concerned with their employee’s opinions on how to improve the organisations
TASK 1 3
Culture 3
Organisational Features 5
Leadership Styles 6
TASK 2 7
Internal Resources 7
External Resources 8
TASK 3 10
Targets 10
Time-scales 11
Monitor and Control 12
BIBLIOGRAPHY 14
Select two distinctly different organisations from the FTSE 100 and consider the following requirements:
TASK 1
Contrast each organisation relating to the culture, organisational features and leadership style:
In this assignment the choice has been made to use Tesco Plc, this organisation was original identified in Assignment 1 and is a different type of organisation to BAE Systems, the other organisation chosen for this assignment. Tesco is the leading supermarket chain and supplies food and other dry goods to the general public. BAE Systems is a Defence Contractor which supplies military defence systems to the MOD and other countries Armed Forces. Therefore it could be suggested that BAE Systems and Tesco are two distinctively different organisations in very different markets. They are both large, well established and have various sites in UK, Europe and the rest of the world. Culture
Tesco has a Role Culture in their organisation and has a functional structure wit a Tall organisational structure with a narrow span of control.
It has a high level structure with the higher levels holding the departments of Finance, Purchasing, and Marketing etc which operate at a corporate level over all Tesco stores.
The individual stores each have a main store manager who operates and is supported by his first line managers, the line managers then have line employees to control or co-ordinate.
There is heavy investment in the employees by supplying training and promotion from within, it is important to Tesco that their employees know what is required from them in their job and responsibility and how they strive for excellence and customer satisfaction.
Tesco are also concerned with their employee’s opinions on how to improve the organisations
Bibliography: HNC/HND BTEC Course Book, Core Unit 3 Organisations and Behaviours, BPP Publishing Limited August 2000 L.JMullins, Management and Organisational Behaviour Seventh Edition, Pearson Education Limited 2005 www.baesystems.com BAE Systems Annual Report 2006 ‘Shaping Our Business’ www.baessytems.com BAE Systems Company Strategy 2007 update Report www.tesco.co.uk Tesco Annual Review and Summary Financial Statement