Management and Organizations

Running head: MANAGEMENT AND ORGANIZATIONS
Management and Organizations
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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Task 1...............................................................................................................................................2
Task 2...............................................................................................................................................3
Task 3...............................................................................................................................................3
Task 4...............................................................................................................................................4
Task 5...............................................................................................................................................6
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................8
References........................................................................................................................................9

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Introduction
In the business organizations, the presence of many aspects or factors can be seen that
can be held responsible for the organizational success. One of such major factors is the strategic
management. The presence of effective strategic management helps the companies in
development effective business strategies for the achievement of the overall goals and objectives
of the businesses. At the time of the development of the effective strategic, two major factors are
required to be taken into consideration; they are organizational structure and the capability of the
management as strategies are needed to be made on these two major aspects (Hill, Jones and
Schilling 2014).
Task 1
This report aims to analyze both the management and organizational aspects of King
Digital Entertainment Ltd (King). King is considered as a leading interactive entertainment as
well as gaming company for the mobile users. The company was founded in the year of 2003 and
has their presence all over the world. It needs to be mentioned that King operates in the video
game industry. It needs to be mentioned that the gaming industry of United Kingdom (UK)
contributes largely for the development of the country’s economy (discover.king.com 2018). The
presence of 2261 active game companies can be seen in UK as of June 2018 and their business
operation can be seen in all sizes and scales. In this gaming industry of UK, King is considered
as one of the largest companies (ukie.org.uk 2018). The current market value of the company is
£65.155 billion. The company is headquartered at London, UK and the total employee base of
the company is 2000. Effective strategic development is considered as a major aspect for the
success of King.

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Task 2
It needs to be mentioned that King follows certain organizational structure in order to
maintain good functionality within the organization. King follows the organizational hierarchical
structure for well functionality and the presence of the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) can be
seen at the top of the structure. However, the organizational structure of King is slightly different
from other companies. In order to facilitate effective functionality, King has included some
major chief officers in their organizational structure; they are Chief Creative Officer, Chief
Operating Officer, Chief Technology Officer, Chief Strategy Officer, Chief Legal Officer and
Chief People Officer. The inclusion of the Vice President can also be seen (Tran and Tian 2013).
All these people in the organizational structure are responsible for maintaining the functionality
of different operational aspect of the company like strategy, people management, technology,
legal aspects and others. The presence of different types of managers can be seen in the
organizational structure of King like the human resource manager, marketing manager, finance
manager and others. Thus, the above discussion shows that the organizational structure of King
has great influence on effective functionality of the company as these people help in maintaining
the functionality aspect in every aspect of the business operation of King (Tran and Tian 2013).
Task 3
In the era of modern business, the presence of various approaches or theories of
management can be seen that the help the companies in improving their business functionality.
One of such approaches is the Scientific Management Approach or Theory. Fredrick Winslow
Taylor is the inventor of this scientific management approach and for this reason; this approach
is also called as Taylorism. The main focus of this modern management approach is to improve
the efficiency as well as functionality of the companies. Thus, the major emphasis of this