Evaluation of Coca-Cola Company's Star Model Implementation

This report analyzes how Coca-Cola can utilize Jay Galbraith's Star Model to improve its organizational design and strategic effectiveness. The report emphasizes the model's five key components: strategy, structure, processes, rewards, and people, and how these elements can be applied to enhance Coca-Cola's operations. It discusses how the Star Model can help Coca-Cola define its vision, mission, and goals, and make informed decisions regarding its operations within the global marketplace. The report highlights the importance of the model in controlling management and employee behaviors, improving communication, and motivating employees to achieve organizational goals. It also references key academic sources to support the analysis and provides a comprehensive understanding of how the Star Model can contribute to Coca-Cola's long-term success and competitiveness in the business world. The report concludes that the Star Model can significantly enhance Coca-Cola's business operations if utilized effectively by its management.

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How to change the design of Coca-Cola Organization by use of Galbraith “The star Model"
The model can help in improving foundations that the Coca-Cola Organization bases its
designs of operation on within global marketplaces. For management of As Coca-Cola
Company, it will not be possible to change the design of the organization by use of Galbraith Jay
“The Star Model” since it helps in establishing together with improving operations of Coca-Cola
Organization in marketplaces. Some of this importance of the model includes five different
categories in making design policies (Galbraith, 2004). The policies of the model can be
applicable in controlling management and behaviors of employees. The strategy of the model can
be applicable in determining the direction of operations within Coca-Cola Organization.
According to sediments by Galbraith (2014), the use of the structure of the model can help in
determining the location of power in the process of making the effective decision of operations
of every stakeholder within Coca-Cola Organization. The use of processes of the model can help
an individual and management of Coca-Cola Organization to improve the flow of
communication by responding to advancements in technology usage in operations (Halloway,
2004). The technique of reward and its system present in the model can be used effectively in
Coca-Cola Organization to motivate employees to work while focusing on achieving
organization goals. Additionally, the category of policies that relates to people within human
resource department can be applicable by the management of Coca-Cola Organization to bring
huge impact together with frequent cases of defining the skills, understanding, and mindsets of
workers. All these designs within “The Star Mode” by Galbraith can help in improving
operations of Coca-Cola Organization by eliminating different factors that can negatively affect
operation (Mosurovic & Kutlaca, 2011). Hence, ‘The Star Model” can efficiently help in
improving business operations of Coca-Cola Organization if an individual utilizes it well.

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Using Galbraith “The star Model” to improve strategic effectiveness of Coca-Cola
Organization
The model is effective in improving strategies of the Coca-Cola Organization to work on
an efficient manner since it comprises of series of policies for designing operations that are
controllable by managers of Coca-Cola Organization and can influence behaviors of employees.
The model can provide policies that form the tools that management of Coca-Cola Organization
must concentrate on becoming skilled so that they can shape the behaviors and decisions of their
operations effectively (Kozlowski & Llgen, 2006). Therefore, by use of Jay Galbraith’s Star
model, most managers can focus on ways that can help the organization to holistically develop
the organization to be capable of sustaining different models of business and propositions of
value over time. According to Galbraith (2014), the model can help the management to
acknowledge the necessities of the Coca-Cola Organization towards adapt to the duration in
response to different changes in strategies, marketplace forces, or in the entire external business
setting. The model help in improving operations of Coca-Cola Organization by helping managers
to know how to define their vision, values, mission along with setting up of goals and objectives
that they target to achieve (Mosurovic & Kutlaca, 2011). Therefore, by use of “The Star Model”
Coca-Cola Organization can be capable of setting out their directions of operations by
establishing useful criteria ideal for making trade-offs (Galbraith, 2004). It also helps in Coca-
Cola Organization’s management to choose among alternatives options available in designing
organization to ensure that they remain competitive in the global business community.

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