Organization Paper
Organizational Paper
Sheila Madison
Management 330
Glenn Conowitch
February 21, 2007
Organizational Structure Paper
Businesses in today’s world are looking to organizational structure to assist with building a successful organization. Organizational structure is used as a foundation to ensure each department as well as employee knows the proper direction to take. There are two organizations, The Sharp and AT&T, which incorporate organizational structure in the day-to-day business. Each organization will be evaluated to compare and contrast the impact of organizational structure.
AT&T utilizes the three functions of management to build a dynamic organization. By introducing organizational structure to the corporation, an effective working environment is created for each employee. Now AT&T has created an organizational chart to provide a reporting structure for employees to follow. The organizational chart also provides where each department stands in the corporation. Both vertical differentiation as well as horizontal differentiation is utilized in AT&T.
The chief executive officer along with the human resources department have worked together to create an organizational chart for the Mission Systems sector of AT&T.
The program manager is at the top of the chart. His primary function is to oversee the sector and works with the assistant program managers. The assistant program managers work with the program manager to task the engineers with assignments to be completed. The engineers perform a variety of services to our customers under the supervision of the assistant program managers. The administrative assistants perform clerical duties to provide support to the engineers, assistant program managers, program manager, and the customers on various task assignments. The human resource department provides assistance to the whole organization. This varies from hiring employees to terminating...
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