Organisational Structure and Management

Management
Contents

INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
Organisational structure and Management..................................................................................3
The Business environment...........................................................................................................4
Managing and leading a change...................................................................................................6
Talent management......................................................................................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
An organisation is comprises of culture, structure, various functional departments,
mission, employees, values and much more. All these factors have different importance and role
to play in an organisation. For reference purpose this report has taken an example of a company,
Marks and Spencer. It is a multinational company originated from Britian. The company has
engaged its business in manufacturing of fine quality clothes, home products and food products.
This report discusses about the organizational structure, different management functions,
environment in which the business is running, change management and a briefing about the
talent management in an organisation.
TASK 1
Organisational structure and Management
Organizational structure defines the ways in which the activities in an organisation would
get allocated, operated and gets directed that would help it in achieving the set objectives and
goals. The structure of an organisation does put impact upon the activities and operations
undertaken. There are various typed of organizational structure, some of them are as follows:
Hierarchical organizational structure
This type of organizational structure is the most common type which is followed by the
organisation. Here the organisation follows levels in their working where the top level
management people are considered as a major people who are responsible to take the major
decision for the company, middle level are the people who regulates the lower level people and
they receives the decisions from top level management people and they give the orders to lower
level management people (Bloom and et al., 2017).
Advantages: It helps the organisation in better defining the responsibilities and authorities. This
approach also motivates the employees to have a clear path for professional career.
Disadvantages: This type of organizational structure may slow down the decision making ability
of an organisation due to the levels present. It also demotivates the employees belonging to the
lower level of management as they consider themselves less valuable in the organisation and
decisions.
Functional organizational structure
Here the departments are made according to the core functions performed in the
organisation. For example the functional structure can be marketing function, finance function,
human resource and much more (Carberry, Amatoury and Eckert, 2018). In these functions the
hierarchy is follow ranging from top to bottom in that specific department.