Structure and Culture in Business Firms

STRUCTURE
AND CULTURE

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Organisational Structure in context with business firms........................................................1
Culture for an organisation.....................................................................................................3
Influence of adopted culture and structure on the performance of selected organisation......4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Structure in context with a business organisation is referred to the system that outlines the
specification adopted by company to perform their work in appropriate manner. Structure of an
organisation helps in dividing responsibilities, roles and rules as per the business requirement.
Culture is related to the assumption, values, shared beliefs and the perception of people
(Battistella, 2014). This assignment report is prepared in context with TESCO which is a UK
based multinational retailer of grocery and merchandise operating in global context. In terms of
gross revenues, this organisation is placed at third number. This project report is going to
mention about structure and culture of an organisation. In this context, different types of
organisational structure and culture will be discussed. Along with this, appropriate models and
frameworks will be mentioned so that impact of culture and structure on the performance of
company can be acknowledged in a proper manner.
MAIN BODY
Organisational Structure in context with business firms
Organisational structure is referred to the hierarchy of placing the roles, rights, duty and
other responsibilities in a business organisation. This will allows the workers of a company to
acknowledge their power and duties according to their departments. Structure of a company is
designed according to their objectives and strategy. There are multiple aspects that are associated
with structure of a company. In context of TESCO, these aspects are discussed here:
In case of organisational structure, chain of command is described as the hierarchical
arrangement in which interdepartmental relations will be defined from below to top. By this,
employees of a company get to know to whom they are accountable. This aspects will helps the
manager in TESCO to lay accountability and decision-making power so that each activity of
company can be performed appropriately. Another important aspect in case of organisational
structure is span of control which is concerned with the number of workers that works under
direct supervision of the manager (Brewster and Hegewisch, 2017). In relation with TESCO, if
the manager in HR team have ten subordinates working under him then in this case span of
control for HR manager is ten. By this performance of each employee can be acknowledged
properly.
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