There are five basic and important elements that make up a story. Those five components are the characters, the setting, the plot, the conflict, and the resolution. In almost every story there is one protagonist and antagonist. A protagonist is the main character who has the most importance in the story and the antagonist is a person who actively opposes against the characters. A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry, and Death of a Salesman, by Arthur Miller, are two famous plays that have…
Appex Corporation. Several years ago, I tried to start my own business and design the organization structure. When I read Appex case, I was stunned because my design was quite the same as Appex. Never do I want to see what happened in Appex happen in my future company. Therefore, I desire to learn from the case and all the other aspects mention in our readings to design my new organization structure and separate it into three stages, including “Starting”, “Leadership”, “Accountability”. (Exhibit…
Company Ownership/Legal Entity Entrepreneurs Shawn Buckwalter, Christine Fenske, and Dawn Lowden have invested $100,000 each, to help startup Queen Bee boutiques. As a new business in manufacturing and merchandizing, Queen Bee boutiques realizes their obligation to give back not only to the community but also the planet. Because they firmly believe in reducing their carbon footprint, they will be purchasing environmentally friendly equipment and exploring alternative resources to operate Queen…
Organizational Structure Hain Celestial has eight people on the Board of Directors, only one of them part of the staff management team (Irwan Simon). There are four executive officers as the top tier of their organization with a support staff of corporate senior management. The company is then broken down into geographic regions of management. There is a branch of management for the United State, Canada, the United kingdom, and Europe. Each branch focuses on distribution for their designated…
Organizational structure refers to the way of arranging people and assigning responsibilities to perform work and meet goals in an organization, it is particularly important for the large organization, where decisions need to be made in many tasks, unlike in the case of a small organization that day-to-day communication is frequent and formal structure is unnecessary (Distelzweig, n.d.). In order to explain the concept of a good organizational structure, two organizations are chosen for…
John C. Lincoln started Lincoln Electric Company in the late 1800’s, early 1900’s. John Lincoln was later joined by his younger brother James F. Lincoln who bore the both the titles vice-president and General Manager. As the son of a minister, James F. Lincoln entwined his Christians principles into his business philosophy. “The Christian ethic should control our acts. If it did control our acts, the savings in cost of distribution would be tremendous.” (Lincoln, 1961) Based on the…
was Osama bin Laden, and he held this role until his death in 2011. Al-Qaeda does not manage the daily operations of its members, but instead core leadership seeks to centralize the organization’s messaging and strategy. The structure of Al-Qaeda is very similar to the structure of a business, due to/ an advisory council that directs their overall strategy. The advisory council can challenge leadership on different ideas and propositions. Al-Qaeda also has a military committee, finance…
to have a remarkably fluid organizational structure and culture in order to operate efficiently and be successful or profitable as a company. The organization structure ranks the hierarchy, which identifies specific policies and measures that are immensely crucial to completing company objectives. Throughout this essay I will show you how Apple has become one of the greatest and most prolific corporations in the world not only by having a distinct organizational structure, but through employing…
The intra-organizational structure that our group decided to analyze is the network structure of characters in the Harry Potter series of books written by J.K Rowling. We narrowed down our boundary into Dumbledore’s Army (D.A), the organization that was founded by Hermione Granger and led by her together with Ron Weasley and Harry Potter as a teacher on their fifth year in Hogwarts. We are going to find out if the three founders were actually central in the organization and in what extent they…
ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE Tata Motors has a Matrix Organizational Structure with both heads of functions (Human Resources head, Marketing head, Chief Financial Officer) as well as heads of vehicle divisions (Passenger Vehicles Head, Commercial Vehicles Head, Advanced Engineering Head) forming part of the top management of the company. It is through the collaboration of the various departments that day to day operations take place. Each Head of Division/Function is solely responsible for…