Vita Herb Report: Organizational Design for Resource Management

This report examines Vita Herb, a prominent Australian health company, and its organizational design. It explores how Vita Herb's structure facilitates effective resource management, including raw materials, human resources, and operational processes. The report analyzes the company's business model, emphasizing factors like client delivery, cost optimization, and market competition. It also discusses the importance of organizational design in streamlining business functions, employee conduct, and strategic integrations. The report highlights the resources needed, such as suppliers, raw materials, and human capital, particularly focusing on women in the workforce, and how the management authority allocates these resources efficiently to ensure profitability and long-term sustainability. Furthermore, it delves into the organizational design processes, including coordination, cooperation, and competence, and discusses the steps involved in organizational design, such as process analysis, systematic design, team-level design, and transitional planning. The report also addresses issues in organizational structures, such as departmental conflicts and communication gaps, and suggests problem-solving approaches to enhance organizational efficiency and success. References to relevant academic sources are included to support the analysis.

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Introduction
This particular essay is based upon the study of the organization called Vita herb. It is a
large-scale and very renowned company of Australia dealing in health products. Vita herb
manufactures and distributes a wide range of products which are high in essential nutrients,
which consists of vitamins, proteins, carbohydrates and other elements that are conducive to the
human health. The company has been listed publicly at the Australian Stock Exchange. The
main question of this particular essay is to elaborate upon the different organizational
perspectives of the chosen company, Vita Herb and on the basis of it demonstrate how the
organizational design of the chosen company facilitates the promotion of itself and also the
management of its resources in the most efficient and unified method. This essay shall be
highlighting the various types of the resources and the various processes that are employed by
the management authority of the chosen business organization, Vita Herb. The Organizational
Design of Vita Herb is quite an effective tool as it helps in the proper functioning of the business
procedures and also guides the conduct of the employees. The most important strategy of the
organization is to ensure that the business functions properly. The strategy involves integration
of factors like the prompt Client delivery, optimum costs of the products and the services,
keeping up with the competition in the market, entering in collaboration with other business
organizations to increase the competence of Vita Herb. Thus the arranging of the people
according to their area of expertise in a proper manner is considered to properly manage and
drive the organizational design and the growth to success.

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Resources Needed by the Organization
A business model can be referred to as the articulation of the logic in which a business
shall be creating as well as delivering value to a wide range and variety of clients. The business
model development thus also includes the articulation of the cost prices of the concerned
products, the revenues of the organization, the production costs as well as the will power to
succeed. Thus the managing of a business shall involve the implementing of the necessary
strategies for the sake of the formulation of the best possible business model. Different types of
the resources that are needed by the business organization for the determination and the
formulation of the different types of the strategies of developing the business model.
All the resources and the positive prospects of the business organization can be referred
to as the factors determining the sustenance of the business organization in the market. An
organization in order to be sustainable must make sure that the presence of adequate number of
good quality resources that could easily act as the game changer for the benefit of business
organizations in the competition posed by the market forces. The resources that shall be required
by Vita Herb in order to make sure that the proper formulation of the business model is inclusive
of the factors like that of the proper suppliers of goods, high quality raw materials for
production, organic products for the health concerns, and most importantly the human resource,
especially focusing on the women. The resources can thus be said as one of the most important
factors that determine the process of the formulating of the business model for the industry. The
resources therefore must be allocated by the management authority of Vita Herb in a proper and
very efficient way. The proper selection of the proper resources and their implementation in the
most efficient manner can facilitate the business to gain profit and help it sustain itself in the
long run.

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Processes Needed by the Organization
Organizational Design is the process by which different people with different expertise
and different purpose come together in an organized manner, for supporting the cause of the
business organization to run in a proper and in an efficient manner for the sake of gaining
success. The qualities of Coordination, Cooperation and Competence when amalgamated
together makes sure that the getting positive business results are achieved. Organizational Design
Process is a systematic and scientific process that aids an organization to build an effective and
streamlined business organization facilitating success. There are various processes which can be
adopted by the business organization to achieve success for the business. The designing process
of the organization locates the ineffective design work flows and the structures, systems and on
the basis of it rectifies the designs in order to utilize the needs of the business organization and
also for the developing a plan for implementing the new transformations. The processes of the
business organization channelized for simplifying structures and improving the systems for
organizing the various business units and also involving the internal as well as the external teams
of the business organization. This enables the various teams to have a greater degree of authority
and also ensuring the undertaking of greater responsibilities for achieving more success. Some
of the major steps involved in the business include:-
a. Process analysis at a deeper level
b. Systematic and Scientific Designing of the organization
c. Design made at the team level
d. Transitional Planning
e. Team Development and Empowerment Planning

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Place of Location for the Resources and Processes
The selection of the location is a part of the geographic organizational structures. They
are helpful in the following ways.
Process of Controlling the Resources and Processes
The managers of the modern business organizations are acquainted with various business
processes. The modern business organizations are functional and hierarchical in nature.
According to Aubry and Lavoie-Tremblay (2018) the managing of the business organizations is
suffering from the problems of the isolation of the various business departments, hence leading
to improper coordination among them. The organizations also suffer from lack of
communication. These elements combined together cause various problems to the business
operations. The smooth operation of the business gets hampered seriously and has a cascading
effect on the business process on a whole. In a proper and much broader sense these can be
termed as the collection of the works and the various kinds of the activities that together helps in
the transformation of the outputs from the inputs. At the outset it must be assessed if the
processes meant for controlling the resources are conveniently placed at all the intermediate
levels of analysis. These generally consist of various types of interrelated tasks that are likely to
lead to the organizational analysis. Secondly, a process perspective provides with various types
of insights into the behavior of the managers of the organization. The allotment of the time
schedules, employee responsibilities and the flow of activities to be adopted by the employees
are instructed by the managers for ensuring the following of coherent role.

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Issues in Company Organizational Structures
The organizational structures define the hierarchy or an organization and also determine
the process by which the information flows within it. There are different kinds of organizational
structure which includes the likes of hierarchical structure, matrix structure or a combined
organizational structure. A company with a strong organizational structure benefits from
improved communication. A proper hierarchy and the ability of the company to create a unified
company message (Andreassen et al. 2016). As efficient as organizational structure can be, it can
also create different kinds of problems that can lead to the loss of productivity and internal
conflict.
One of the major dangers of the creation of different departments is the appearance of the
mentally different kinds of the different groups of employees and organizations. The sales of the
organization may lead to a conflict situation with the accounting as because new customers will
not be approved for their credit terms (youtube.com, 2019). The organizational design can also
face issues ifit is not changed for a long time. The absence of any ind of changes within the
business organization for a long time can lead to major problems. Changes in the management
can put strain on the organizational structure of the business organization. Apart from this the
presence of effective communication is equally necessary for the organizational structure to run
smoothly and efficiently.
Problem Solving Approach
The issues that have been identified in the organizational structure can be solved by
means of some steps. They are as follow;

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a. Effective communicational design that can help communicate with the employees and the
management
b. There can be differ kind of conflicts caused by the loyalty of the department. This can be
solved by means of a proper and effective communication in between the different
departments
c. Effective changes must be adopted wihin the organization at a specified time schedule to
ensure business success
Conclusion
The essay has been able to provide a proper description of the organizational planning
and the different perspectives of the planning process involved. The resources and the processes
that are needed by the organization and the ways of integrating them in a proper manner have
been described in a transparent manner. The description of the control process has paved the way
to address the issues of organizational planning.

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