A reflective writing of the module within the academic year 2012/13
Within the academic year 2012/13, I took on a module named Context of Business. It aims to develop and understand companies’ traditional and contemporary management and structural approaches (Chokshi, 2012). Within the academic year we were tested on our understanding of what was taught. This report is a reflective writing of the year. This will be done by looking critically at the two assignments given to us. First assignment was to give a report of an organisational structure and draw up its chart. The second was to perform a group presentation of two companies of different sizes on various factors. This report will look in to the process, the challenges and outcome of each assignment.
Assignment one: Presented at Week 6
The class was given an assignment to conduct a research of the structure of a business of our choice. We were to present our findings by researching the structure of a business and draw up its organisational chart within six weeks.
2.1 Outline
First of all, I had to look for a business of my choice. This involved in looking into businesses in my local vicinity or further afar. I finally settled on Syngenta, An international agricultural business into crop productivity and protection of environment (Syngenta, 2013). I then had to start researching into the business to find out what sort of organisational structure it had. For Syngenta it had a matrix style structure, a structure where highly skilled individual form teams for projects (Stanford, 2007). I also had to look into its span of control. Syngenta had a flat structure of operation, a structure where there are few layers of authority and delegation is used to carry out task effectively (The times 100, 2013). From this I was to prepare an organisational chart, a chart which shows the way the chain of command works in an organisation (The times 100, 2013). For this I was to take into consideration of the matrix style and its flat structure of operation to draw up its organisational
Assignment one: Presented at Week 6
The class was given an assignment to conduct a research of the structure of a business of our choice. We were to present our findings by researching the structure of a business and draw up its organisational chart within six weeks.
2.1 Outline
First of all, I had to look for a business of my choice. This involved in looking into businesses in my local vicinity or further afar. I finally settled on Syngenta, An international agricultural business into crop productivity and protection of environment (Syngenta, 2013). I then had to start researching into the business to find out what sort of organisational structure it had. For Syngenta it had a matrix style structure, a structure where highly skilled individual form teams for projects (Stanford, 2007). I also had to look into its span of control. Syngenta had a flat structure of operation, a structure where there are few layers of authority and delegation is used to carry out task effectively (The times 100, 2013). From this I was to prepare an organisational chart, a chart which shows the way the chain of command works in an organisation (The times 100, 2013). For this I was to take into consideration of the matrix style and its flat structure of operation to draw up its organisational