General Motors Research Paper

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General Motors
Michael Dunham
3/8/2018
MGT111 – Spring 2018
Prof. Robin James

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General Motors Company Introduction
General Motors Company (GM), formerly known as General Motors Corporation, is an American corporation that is public traded and is the world’s largest motor-vehicle manufacturer for most of the 20th and 21st centuries. GM has assembly plants and distribution centers all over America and is one of the oldest and widely known companies in the world. They are a part of designing, manufacture, and selling cars, trucks, and other automobile parts. First, it is essential to understand the background and history of this company.
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He then traded his Chevrolet stock for GM stock until he had controlling interest in both companies. Within five years, he was running GM again and then Chevrolet became a division of GM. After this, General Motors joined the war effort during WW1 and sold nearly 8,500 trucks to the US Army and with this repurposed 90% of the production line for military use. In 1920, Durant retires, and then simply takes a pension. By 1954, General Motors accounted for nearly 54% of the auto market in the United …show more content…

In 2009, GM filed for bankruptcy and it received another 30 billion in government funding to assist with the restructuring of the company. By 2016, the company sold over 10 million vehicles. The company is currently still headquartered in Michigan, however it does have operations all over the world, on six continents.
At this time, it holds about 17.6% of the U.S. automobile market share and it has more than 100 locations in the US, not including dealerships or financing operations. General Motors Company used organization structure to support managerial decisions or a regional divisional organization structure. This regional structure means that GM groups different business activities according to geographical segments or areas of operations. It has over 225,000 employees worldwide and with this, the organization of the business and different areas within the company needs to be structured correctly and appears to do

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