UAC Food Ltd.

UAC Food Ltd.

Choose an organisation in which you have worked and briefly describe

your place in the organisational structure the management style of

your immediate supervisor and the mechanism of control in operation

do you believe Bureaucratic control is an inevitable part of the

organisation ‘s design.

UAC food ltd is an organisation located in Nigeria. It one of Nigeria

largest supermarket food chains, operating more than twenty stores

that provides people with widest selection of food and other services.

It has a well complex organisational structure consisting of more than

one hundred and fifth members of staffs.

Organisational structure as stated by A Huczynski and D Buchanan

“refers to the formal system task and reporting relationship that

controls, coordinates motivates employees so that they work together

to achieve organisational goals[1]”. UAC foods ltd organisational

structure is a hierarchical structure. Another name for hierarchical

structure is called a pyramid structure because at each level

downwards there will be more employees. If UAC food hierarchical

structure is drawn it will look like pyramid shape. Hierarchical

structure is the vertical structure of an organisation where there are

numbers of management levels in the hierarchy wit each having

authority over the one beneath it[2]. In a hierarchical structure

decisions are made at the top and passed downwards. The information

required to make those decisions is passed upwards from the bottom of

the structure to the top. There are many differences of how an

organisation operates when having a hierarchical structure...

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[1] A Huczynski and D Buchanan 2001 pg 447

[2]Unwinhyman Dictionary of Business (definition of Hierarchical

structure )

[3] Introduction to organisational behaviour pg 256

[4] A Huczynski and D Buchanan 2nd edition pg 500

[5] Huczynski and D Buchanan 2nd edition pg 372

[6] Managing and organisation an introduction to theory and practice

pg 92

[7] Managing and organisation an introduction to theory and practice

pg91-97