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Organizational Design and Culture

Many companies find they are forced to remodel their traditional
hierarchical structures, which were originally built around
functional specialization and centralized authority, to compete in
todays marketplace. Companies often draw on the following five
tools of organizational design to make their organizations leaner,
flatter, and more responsive to change. The five tools are:

In addition, there are many managerial tasks that shape corporate
culture and the leadership skills needed to engage the full
organization to produce great results. Examine the dynamics of the
elements that must be brought together to create a corporate
culture, such as core values and business principles, operating
practices and behaviors, ethical standards and attitudes, and work
climate and people management practices.

Considering the five tools of organizational design, managerial
tasks and leadership skills, examine the practices followed by your
selected organization and include the following in a 810 page APA
formatted paper in MS Word:

Describe which of the five tools of organizational design your
selected organization uses to maintain and improve productivity
while achieving cost savings. Use detailed examples in your
response.

Explain how work groups are utilized in your organization to
accomplish the stated goals of the company.

Describe the motivational practices used by the organization to
promote better strategy execution. Include some illustrative
examples in your response.

Explain how, if at all, the reward system in the organization ties
incentives directly to achieving higher productivity and
performance targets.

Explain the evaluation and feedback process used in your company to
assess employee performance.

Identify the elements in the organization that affect how cultural
change is implemented.

Describe the ethical model being used by the company.

Present your overall opinion of the organizations corporate
strategy approach. Is the strategy execution effort delivering the
expected results? Explain and illustrate your conclusions.

Describe what specific actions have been taken to delegate
authority to middle and junior managers and to create a sense of
empowerment among employees. Explain and illustrate your
answers.

Avoid plagiarism: Using
someone else’s words or ideas in your paper without proper
acknowledgement constitutes plagiarism and is unacceptable in any
situation. Make sure you have properly documented the source of
original facts, ideas, and interpretations that you use in your
paper. This must be done whether you summarize information or
paraphrase what you learned from a particular source.

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