Amazon's Business Organization: Structure, Culture, and Functions

This essay provides an analysis of business organizations, focusing on Amazon as a case study. It begins by defining business organizations and their various forms, such as sole proprietorships, partnerships, and limited liability companies. The essay then delves into Amazon's organizational structure, comparing tall and flat structures and highlighting the advantages and disadvantages of each. It further explores the key business functions within Amazon, including HRM, marketing, and finance, and their impact on functional management and employees. Finally, the essay examines Amazon's organizational culture, emphasizing its role in fostering innovation and growth. The conclusion summarizes the importance of business organization in shaping a company's culture and overall success. Desklib provides similar essays and solved assignments for students.

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Business Organisation

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Business organisation is the general company which helps out to manage all the
commercial activities and it also manage the enterprise with all the laws and the contract that are
being aligned in the working areas. This is made in order to manage the business activities and
also to understand the general areas and the directions through which the company can implicate
and manage the working principles. It considers 4 important type of organisation they are as in
sole proprietorship, partnership, limited liability company, corporation etc. it considers to carry
out vast functioning h of business in order to manage the incorporation and the general
functioning of the company (CRIVEANU, and Ivanescu, 2019). The organisation chosen in this
essay will be Amazon which is a public company headquartered in Washington,US. It use to deal
with all the consumer goods and electronics, digital and general facilities and supplies. This
essay will include all the major advantages and the disadvantages of business corporations.,
comparison of organisational structure,furthermore it will also include all the organisational
culture and practise ion industries.
MAIN BODY
There are different kind of business practises which are set up in the organisation some of
which are like, Sole proprietorship all such business which are being managed by sole or the
single individual who use to start the company in order to manage the living earning and also to
gain their own savings. Some advantages are like, it can set up in easy manner, the profits which
are made through the business activities can be earned for the person itself no sharing is needed
to be made and lastly rights, responsibilities and the decision making power are in the hand of
sole owner (TCropley, 2019). For instance, electrician, carpenters and other Freelancers are
included in this category. The drawbacks of all such company are like hectic workload,
unlimited liability and management of finance or the assets is quiet difficult for the company.
Partnership can be made when two or more individuals manage and share all the rights with the
responsibility so as to carry out the business. For example, Yoomoo is a well known partnership
firm. Advantages of all partnership companies are like, they manage all the financial assets
together, balance in their general life can be managed, this saves the money and cost as through
distribution. Some further disadvantages are like, loss in the autonomy when seen that no person

can take the decision by their own, stability is not proper and is management can occur, in case
of conflicts it will make the company to be sold. Limited liability company are hybrid structure
based private company which considers to have all the corporation and the general terms and
partnership made in the business. It is carried with the corporation (Farhan, Jasim, and Al-
Mamoori, 2019). For example, John lewis hold LLC, River Island etc. Merits of the company
are like, this considers to have simple form of structure, flexible working with income
distribution and can easily be controlled. The major demerits are like, fund raising is difficult at
times, their will not be any perpetual succession and also generates the confusion in terms and
methods.
The Tall organisational structure is a broken structure and this manage and frame all the
work and the general analysis through which distinct hierarchy is managed. In this structure their
will be made so many managers to handle and manage proper working and the general
responsibilities and the task are assigned to all the managers in different groups and areas. For
example, BBC carries the tall structure (Hannadige, and Yimashi, 2020). Flat organisational
structure, is where all the team members managers and the employees use to communicate with
each other directly. Their will not be any kind of issue that lie in between them as they try to
make open communication and carry decentralized leadership. This removes all the
responsibilities from middle managers and create a smooth and easy functioning. This use to
make the employees in the company to feel confident as by sharing their ideas and expressing
their views. For example Amazon is flat organisation structure. The contrast and the comparison
between the two structure is like, tall structure is usually a time taking process whereas in flat
structure the communication is direct so it saves times. Their use to have so many levels as they
considers to have so many departments in between their working which are managed by
managers, but in functional managerial involvement is lessen and all the work is made according
to it(Banerjee, and Srivastava, 2017). The costing that arise in tall structure is comparatively
high then the functional structure. And same as with the control span is narrow in tall whereas in
flat it considers to have wide management and framework. No employee can directly made the
conversation with the heads in tall structure as in flat all the communication is open and
transparent for all.
Business functions are the process and the general working of the organisation in order
to manage and maintain the work and to implicate proper management in the companies. In order

to maintain the business function there are usually different kinds of departments made in the
organisation so as to make the business smoother like HRM, Marketing, Finance. As in HRM
their use to be hiring, recruitment, selection and all the training are being made by the human
resource department. It focus in managing the growth of the company with the help of
employees. The impact on functional management is it helps in recruiting the efficient and
skilled staff through which growth is managed for company whereas the impact made on
employees are like they provide training in order to make them efficient and ready for upcoming
challenges. Amazon considers to have the training, recruitment and all the selection process so as
to gain efficient workforce (Morrow, and Mowatt, 2020). Marketing is a method through
which company use to sell their goods and services with optimum techniques. The impact it
made on functional management is it helps to manage and enhance the sales and revenue of the
company and the impact on employees are considered to be that they get to know about the new
and advanced changes in the market which are needed in their products. Amazon has an efficient
marketing team to overlook the new adaptations. Finance is department which considers to have
all the budgets funds and the costing to be managed by them it serves out to maintain there
resources and the raising money in order to make the business effective. Impact in functional
areas are like it focus on lowering the cost and enhancing the profit. And the impact on
employees are carried as when the finance sector is good it will focus on making the employees
gain increment. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has a proper team for finance in order to make the
work efficient(Alamgir, 2017).
Organisational culture provides a management through which all the technical, legal and
the moral value for the company is being made. This considers to have the positive culture and
also the environmental areas, valued through which the company can manage the work and
frame their working culture in efficient manner (Rofcanin and et. al., 2021). This involves
psychology, sociology and all the conducts ion the working. The major concern in the culture is
to manage the non-profit goals and also to generate the experience, philosophy and the
compliance of manageable in the company. Their seems that all the company should carry
positive working environment which will help in development in society. As to manage the
company there is always seems that the person should manage the culture and the positive
attitude. Their is been seen that all the company should try to implement the culture in which
they can frame the behaviour of the employees in positive manner. Amazon use to make their

employees to follow the corporate culture in which they try to influence their employees for
pushing their limits and also to develop innovative and creative ideas which will help in
development. It use to focus in conventions and the values through which the creative ideas can
be applied in their critical factor. Amazon creates a major role and their oprga
culture is the reason behind their development and growth as they emerge out to manage and
control all the areas and frame the general working principles (Senivongse and et. al., 2020).
Organisation culture of Amazon make them to grow in future as build positive approach in the
environment and also maintain the future aspects.
CONCLUSION
It is concluded from the above essay that business organisation is the mostly important
areas of practise which helps in organising and framing the culture and the general terms. Sole
traders are the persons who use to maintain the business single handedly and the advantages are
it helps them to gain all profit by themselves. Disadvantage is the unlimited liability. Tall
organisational structure considers all the broken divisions in which different segments are made.
Further more it is also analysed that flat structure use to have saving of time and tall make the
working a bit long. HRM helps in recruitment selection and also impact on the employees to
gain skills and efficiency.

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