Organizational commitment

One of the key elements in an organizational design is centralization and decentralization. These two elements are related to the decision making of the company. Decision-making is about authority; whether it should involve only the senior management at the center of a business or vice-versa. An association can either be centralized, in which the degree of decision making is focused on the higher level of organization and the sources are allocated at the central authority, or decentralized in…

that for any agile transformation, success or failure of the adoption is determined by culture. This is because no company can be agile without the support or the backing of the culture of the company. Agile project management helps to foster an organizational culture that supports learning by carrying out continuous research as well as high-level cross-functional communication (IDC, 2011).…

The IKEA Group of companies is one of the reasons as to why the company has had such great success. The INGKA Holding B.V is the mother company to IKEA. The company employs a friendly organizational culture to all its employees.The above figure shows the organizational structure of the company. The INGKA Company controls the IKEA Group. The company believes in a highly centralized form of leadership (Dahman, THIERNO, Adel, Sameer, & Dahman, 2011). IKEA has a list of functions namely: 1.…

To make their strategy successful, the company, eBay, would have to first establish an organizational structure. Like many of its consumers, eBay experienced a tremendous loss in 2008 due to the so-called Great Recession, which per State of Working America, was a major worldwide economic downturn that began in 2008 and continued well into 2010. By designing and developing an organizational structure that best fits their company, eBay could possibly turn the business and their sales around and…

The greatest leaders manage varying conditions, personalities and climates produce measurable results which influence perceptions and change the world. Change is non-stop ever evolving factor that complicates and conversely simplifies every aspect of life. Unyielding creative thinkers like the ENTJ personality communicate change with an understanding of the target audience and through key motivators with a decisive tone during interpersonal communication. The ENTJ leader is the greatest at…

Wide Span of Control This is a wide organizational structure. A single manager is supervising large numbers of subordinates. 2. Narrow Span of Control This is the opposite of the wide span. It is a tall organizational structure. Here the manager supervises few number of subordinate. 3.1 Personal Context In human resource management, span of control is very common. Span of management…

Organizational structure points out how individuals and teamwork are coordinated inside an organization. To reach your goals and objectives work needs to be coordinated and managed. As a manager for a professional soccer team back in Norway, organizational structures are vital for me to keep developing my business. There are mainly four aspects of structure that we use. They are centralization, formalization, hierarchical levels and departmentalization. My organization consists of me as the…

Today’s topic is Organizational Structure and we would like to take a few minutes to illustrate its definition and list a few different types which are currently being deployed within the work place. Organizational Structure is the basic framework which house or describes the leadership structure of the organization and provides an illustration of the leadership hierarchy system. Without Organizational Structure there would be no way to understand the chain of command of the organization, its…

With the rise and prosperity of organizational culture, explained as “the interweaving of the individual into a community and the collective programming of the mind that distinguishes members of one known group from another” (Ogbonna, 1992), whether it could be managed or not has drawn considerable attention from researchers. There is a statement that managing organizational culture as a way to improve business performance is beyond the effective capacities of corporate executives. Three…

Nowadays business organizations are making use of advanced systems of operation. As complexity of technologies continues to evolve, they posture more challenges for management because organizations will have to need more number of employees with increased technical and professional skills. These knowledge workers cannot be managed with old styles of totalitarian management. They expect autonomy, job satisfaction and status. It is because of these facts that attention of managers is shifting…