The Effects of Organizational Structure, Culture and Management Style on the Performance of a Business

The Effects of Organizational Structure, Culture and Management Style on the Performance of a Business

J-Sainsbury's is a hierarchical organisation. The hierarchal structure

starts from the Chairman (non-executive) and deputy chairman are at

the highest level in the hierarchical and the rest come under them

level by level, depending on the job. To reduce communication problems

for Sainsbury's they can set up special systems to improve flow of

information. One of Sainsbury's aims is to make shopping more quick

and effortless for customers. In order to find out how this can be

done the marketing and research department has to look into this case.

By doing this Sainsbury’s are able to meet their targets.

As Sainsbury’s have a hierarchical structure they are most likely to

lose a lot of money because for the marketing and research and

development departments to carry out their functions they would need

funding from the finance department. For this information to get to

the finance department a lot of time would have been wasted and also

for the finance department to reply them, all these would cost them a

lot of money.

Advantages of using a flat structure in the business are that

communication between the manager and the staffs are easy. There are

few levels of management which means decision making could also occur

in the lower levels. Also costs are less in a flat structure because

there are fewer levels of management. The organisation can react

faster to decision that are to be made because people at lower levels

can implement the decisions faster. Another advantage would be that

all communication which is between an employee and...

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help Sainsbury’s to achieve aims efficiently and at a faster pace.

Disadvantages to this would be that when the workers are being given

these orders all the time will begin to show effect on the workers

being tired of not being able to speak up when not able to do so.

Workers would eventually start to give up working in the way in which

Sainsbury’s would want and to achieve the likeliness that the workers

would stay would be giving them benefits to the job at hand in order

for them to think there is a point of working here and taking orders.

The objectives in which Sainsbury’s may achieve when using this would

be faster work rate with employees having to compete with others in

order to be in the limelight of the manager, which could gain the

employee a raise or promotion in the future.