1.Introduction
Functions of the business
Cpost can be viewed both as a non-profit organization and a profit organization. There are several arguments for both sides. Cpost is an non-profit organization because in the world we live in the need for delivery services is vital for consumer purposes. Nowadays barely anyone physically steps out to buy electronics or other kinds of products (e.g. cell phones, blenders, hair trimmers and people even have the option to buy motor vehicles online today). That is one of the reasons Cpost is detrimental to most of the consumers today. Cpost did not become a valued company just because they deliver parcels. Before mankind had all these communication options (i.e. cell phones, social media) we had to …show more content…
Post Nederland’s Antilles N.V. (PNA) was born. Under a granted concession that provided PNA an exclusive position for postal operations within the Netherlands Antilles, the company started off with a heritage of the former government postal service. Finally, on May 2nd 2003 (the actual transfer date) the second phase entered into force wherein the newly established operating company Nieuwe Post Nederlandse Antillen N.V. (NPNA) took over the operational management of NPA. NPNA is 100% owned by CPIL (Canada Post International, Ltd.), who has taken full commercial responsibility for its postal operations for the next twenty years. Starting on May 2nd 2003 the management of NPNA continued with the transformation process as already initiated by CPIL’s consultants during the preparatory (1st) phase. During the remaining eight months of that year the management succeeded in turning around a loss suffering company (almost one million ANG each month) into a profitable one. Up until 2010 NPNA concentrated its efforts for the greater part on the delivery of letter mail. Due to the large decline in the volume of letter mail and in order for NPNA to survive on the declining postal market, NPNA changed its …show more content…
An organizational structure defines responsibilities for each job position and the relationships among those positions. In general, a firm wants to establish an organizational structure that ensures that all employees are in positions where they can be properly guided and monitored by someone above them to ensure that they do their job efficiently. This will be enable the firm to produce its product or service at a relatively low cost. Different firms use different organizational structures. This may be influenced by the specific characteristics of its business and can affect the firm’s performance.
Organizational structure can vary among firms according to:
• Span of Control
• Organizational height
• Use of line versus staff positions
Cpost International N.V uses an line- and- staff organization structure. This is an organizational structure that includes both line and staff positions and assigns authority from higher-level management to employees. Cpost uses besides the line and staff structure the narrow span of control, because every department has an manager who supervise just a few employees and because every employee of each department has different tasks. They use a tall organizational structure, because there are many layers of employee from the bottom of the structure to the
Functions of the business
Cpost can be viewed both as a non-profit organization and a profit organization. There are several arguments for both sides. Cpost is an non-profit organization because in the world we live in the need for delivery services is vital for consumer purposes. Nowadays barely anyone physically steps out to buy electronics or other kinds of products (e.g. cell phones, blenders, hair trimmers and people even have the option to buy motor vehicles online today). That is one of the reasons Cpost is detrimental to most of the consumers today. Cpost did not become a valued company just because they deliver parcels. Before mankind had all these communication options (i.e. cell phones, social media) we had to …show more content…
Post Nederland’s Antilles N.V. (PNA) was born. Under a granted concession that provided PNA an exclusive position for postal operations within the Netherlands Antilles, the company started off with a heritage of the former government postal service. Finally, on May 2nd 2003 (the actual transfer date) the second phase entered into force wherein the newly established operating company Nieuwe Post Nederlandse Antillen N.V. (NPNA) took over the operational management of NPA. NPNA is 100% owned by CPIL (Canada Post International, Ltd.), who has taken full commercial responsibility for its postal operations for the next twenty years. Starting on May 2nd 2003 the management of NPNA continued with the transformation process as already initiated by CPIL’s consultants during the preparatory (1st) phase. During the remaining eight months of that year the management succeeded in turning around a loss suffering company (almost one million ANG each month) into a profitable one. Up until 2010 NPNA concentrated its efforts for the greater part on the delivery of letter mail. Due to the large decline in the volume of letter mail and in order for NPNA to survive on the declining postal market, NPNA changed its …show more content…
An organizational structure defines responsibilities for each job position and the relationships among those positions. In general, a firm wants to establish an organizational structure that ensures that all employees are in positions where they can be properly guided and monitored by someone above them to ensure that they do their job efficiently. This will be enable the firm to produce its product or service at a relatively low cost. Different firms use different organizational structures. This may be influenced by the specific characteristics of its business and can affect the firm’s performance.
Organizational structure can vary among firms according to:
• Span of Control
• Organizational height
• Use of line versus staff positions
Cpost International N.V uses an line- and- staff organization structure. This is an organizational structure that includes both line and staff positions and assigns authority from higher-level management to employees. Cpost uses besides the line and staff structure the narrow span of control, because every department has an manager who supervise just a few employees and because every employee of each department has different tasks. They use a tall organizational structure, because there are many layers of employee from the bottom of the structure to the