Executive summary
The purpose of this report is to reorganize the company for growth, higher revenues, profitability and for greater competitiveness as well as give recommendation. This report has considered the organizational features to be re-modified and challenges to encounter
This report summarizes the process that will follow and the proposed restructures. The proposed restructure reflects the need for new ‘‘organic’’ organizational forms. Not only does a company’s organizational structure help determine how well its workers make decisions, but it also reflects how well they respond to environment conditions. The organizational structure can influence workers attitudes toward their job. A suitable organizational structure can minimize costs, as well as maximize its efficiency, which increases its ability to compete in a global economy. For these reasons, many organizations have reconsidered with their organizational structures in recent years in order to improve their profits, sustainability and competitive edge.
Introduction
• Project Aims
The purpose of this report is to reflect the practices of the company and proffer suitable organizational components that can help the company manage the challenges and more competitive. Also, make a recommendation in order to bridge the gap between the practices and the market environment. It has been described in the literature the need for companies to undergo changes on a continual basis. Thus the importance of organizational change in today's turbulent business environment has increased.
• Objectives
The objective of the study is to determine strategic imperatives response to unprecedented challenges. Also, to determine the existing organizational components that can be appl...
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...uce costs, and create the kind of agile business that can survive the uncertainties.
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Target Corporation's strategic structure plans are continuing staffing the organization and assemble a well-talented management team. Also, continue recruiting and retaining employees with the needed experience. Another option is to acquire, develop and strengthen resources and capabilities in performing critical value chain activities to match changing market conditions and customer expectations. Target Corporation needs to explore multidivisional or matrix organization structure to facilitate strategy execution, delegate authority, and managing external relationships (Thompson, Peteraf, Gamble and Strickland, 2016).
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A strategic analysis provides an examination of both the internal and external factors impacting on the organisation (Papulova & Gazova, 2016). City
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Along with the rapid development of economy and society, the companies have to own skills to adapt, cater, and transfer new knowledge, and try to modify their activities to reflect insights. Strategic management evolves
Organizations operate in a turbulent environment that forces them to change even against their will to do so. Every organization has a fair prediction of its future that is why they all spend time and resources to put in place strategic plans. More often they get challenged not to follow these plans because they fail to appreciate that change is a natural phenomenon which is intimately entwined with continuity and that change-continuity continuum is what defines organ...
Nowadays, organizational change has a serious implication for the survival of an organization (Furst & Cable, 2008). Change is critical, necessary, and has becomes a key factor to win the game.
Organizational structure is one of the three key organizational assets that could contribute to the effectiveness of operations of any organization (Zheng, Yan and Mclean 2009) It is joined together by different flows of information, decision processes, hierarchy of authority, specialization and working materials. (Enz 2009; Mintzberg 1980) Furthermore, it also determines the operating workflow, control of information, decision-making in the organization and the line authority (Mintzberg 1980). The facets of the organizational structure, the relationships that exist within it, and how the business processes (Bititci et al 2011) are controlled, determine the managerial style that should be utilized in addition to the strategies the organization could implement. Going further, a company’s organizational design and the parts that constitute it are seen as a contributing factor to superior performance, which ultimately provide an organization with competitive advantage over its competitors. (Enz 2009; Zheng, Yang, and Mclean 2009)
Furthermore, an evaluation and review of the changes that took place in the organization will be discussed as well as its consequence on the Scania’s business. In initiating organizational change, it is imperative to consider the relevant stakeholders and obtain their essential support. Therefore, this report will briefly explain the diverse stakeholders and the impact of organizational change on each of them.
Modern day organizations have to constantly change to meet the demands of customers. Workers have to change with the organizations to be able to perform new functions and complete new sophisticated tasks.
A key part of an organizational strategy is to identify market opportunities by finding a niche or a gap in the marketplace that they can pursue to take their company ahead of all their competitors. An organiz...
The lack of success at Omega, Inc. rested in the hands of an incompetent sales staff who were not informed of the company’s mission statement and goals. The staff received limited training on the jobs they were to perform. Omega was faced with the challenge of getting the employees to achieve their sales quotas. According to (Aguinis, 2007), “There are two important prerequisites required before a performance management system is implemented: knowledge of the organization’s mission and strategic goals and knowledge of the job in question.” The benefit of superior knowledge of the organization combined with clear and agreed upon mission and strategic goals of their unit would afford employees the opportunity to make contributions that will have a positive impact on the organization as a whole. In addition, one must possess the knowledge of the job in question to execute the tasks necessary to be done and how they should be done. This knowledge is obtained through a job analysis. Omega failed to implement strategic planning throughout all the franchises. According to Aguinis (2007), “Strategic planning allows an organizati...
...ople for stability. In this todays modernised world, change has become inevitable and there is no doubt that change has to occur in order to survive and achieve success through a number of ways such as focusing on internal strengths, exploiting external forces and making potential threats into opportunities. In the long run, there are clearly more benefits rather than disadvantages because change does not have to be met with negativity. It needs to be embraced through cooperation between managers and employees, clear organisational culture and rewards that improve performance that are not based on tightly structured procedures. Ultimately, overcoming the difficulties of organisational change shows how management systems and people rewarded for stability is not just black and white but is shades of grey and how it is approached will determine its success or failure.
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Strategic renewal is another desired outcome of corporate entrepreneurship. The new economic order and business environment has created a pace of change which requires businesses to adapt more frequently and rapidly than ever before. The changes could involve corporate structure, mergers and acquisitions, addressing new market opportunities, changing product portfolios, repositioning, adapting infrastructure, or adopting new technology. Managers in an organization must be able to take stock of its situation under changing market conditions and agree on a coherent new strategy that will meet the challenges of the present as well as of the future.