Supervisory Management Organization Structure & Design Of Hi-Lo Food Stores (Portmore) Audrey Wilson Supervisory Management Organization Structure & Design Of Hi-Lo Food Stores (Portmore) Audrey Wilson Acknowledgement I would like to thank the Manager and Staff of Hi-Lo Food Stores – Portmore for their comment and suggestions towards this project. Miss Nikeisha Plummer for her support ‚ encouragement and help throughout the project. Contents Introduction 3 Methodology
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Power in organizations: A look through the TQM lens Carson‚ Paula Phillips‚ Carson‚ Kerry David‚ Knight‚ E Leon Jr‚ Roe‚ C William. Quality Progress. Milwaukee: Nov 1995. Vol. 28‚ Iss. 11; pg. 73‚ 6 pgs Copyright American Society for Quality Control Nov 1995 IN A TOTAL QUALITY ENVIRONMENT‚ THE empowered employee alters the traditional supervisor-subordinate relationship. Instead of passively executing orders‚ empowered employees assume both the responsibility and authority necessary to anticipate
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Factors Defining Organization Structure Structure is mainly impacted by the following factors: Strategy Size Technology / Degree if routineness Environment Structure Follows Strategy - 1987 John Scully moved Apple from an adhoc‚ isolated research team system under Steve Jobs to a consolidated research and innovation team system that involved marketing and manufacturing early in the product development process. This was done to meet the fierce competition from IBM. The revised strategies – avoid
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service attitudes and practices that promote retaining customers? Customer retention refer to a strategy with the purpose of doing whatever it takes to keep a company’s current customers on a long term basis (Gibson‚ 2012). Retaining customers is enabled by excellent customer service that produces many positive benefits for the organization. Retaining customers through effective customer service enables easier growth‚ indirectly and directly. When the customers are happy and satisfied then the staff is
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Organization structure refers to the method which the organization utilizes to distribute its workers and jobs across the organization so that the tasks of the organization can be performed and the goals of the organization be achieved. Therefore‚ there exists a number of such structures e.g. divisional‚ multidivisional‚ matrix or functional structure. This paper evaluates the usefulness of functional and multidivisional structures. Gareth Jones (2007) defined the organizational structure as the
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Organization Structure of Ready Pac Foods The company I selected for this assignment in describing organizational structure is the company I work for Ready Pac Foods. In the past 10 years our company has been restructure many times due to changes in the CEO and Presidents role. The organization structure of Ready Pac has change from a functional structure‚ divisional structure to a matrix structure. These change occurred due to servicing customer on a national scale and opening of new manufacturing
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sometimes make wrong decisions? Bad decisions? How might managers improve their decision-making skills? A wrong decision is incorrect‚ immoral; a bad decision is more foolish or inappropriate for the situation. Good managers sometimes make wrong decisions because they lack in skills to make good judgements. Managers can improve their decision-making skills by doing research and attending training seminars. 4. Explain how a manager might deal with making decisions under conditions of
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Chapter 8: Organization Structure and Design Multiple Choice 1. Which management function entails the process of arranging people and resources to work toward a common goal? a) Controlling b) Leading c) Planning d) Organizing Ans: d Bloom’s: Knowledge Level: Easy Learning Objective 1: Understand organizing as a managerial responsibility. Section Reference: Organizing is one of the management functions. 2. An organizational structure consists of all the following
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Structure of the continuous improvement Matrix organization structure is a hybrid divisional and functional structure. As this company is starting to grow‚ using this structure will help it develop and manage well. The matrix structure allows for the benefits of functional and divisional structures to exist in one organization. The matrix organizational structure divides authority both by functional area and by project. In a matrix structure‚ each employee answers to two immediate supervisors: a
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Question 3 A) Briefly explain the formal communication channels and spontaneous communication channels? * Communication channels Messages are transmitted through channels of communication channels as discussed. * Formal communication channels‚ follows the chain of command and is recognized as official. One way to view formal communication within organizations. * Vertical communication is the flow of information both up and down the chain of command. It involves an exchange of
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