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D078 TEM1 - Business Environment Applications I: Business Structures and Legal Environment - Organizational
Structure, Task 1
Name: Madalyn Rodriguez-Grant
Student ID: 011470338
Task 1: Organizational Structure
A.
1. Chosen Organizational Structure
(A1)
To have the most effective consulting business I believe the most effective organizational structure
to apply would be teams. With setting teams, it will consist of bringing people with different functions
into different teams to be able to balance each other and come up with a common idea to achieve our
company goals.
Being able to have a team’s structures has many features. One, it allows a group of people with
different skill sets and every level of knowledge to proceed at a higher functionality and produce the
best overall result. Second, each team will be separated out into different groups to form one team and
instead of the normal hierarchical system it will be set up to more of flat structure to promote more
personal decision making among the individual teams. This will promote them to strive to achieve the
highest goal by putting each other all at the same level as everyone. The mission of the company is to
“facilitate sustainable social, economic, and environmental development opportunities for the good of
businesses in the community.” (WGU Performance Assessment, n.d.) As seen by the company
mission statement we want to give growth to the community and the company by setting up our
corporation in a team’s structure. It will help achieve the best overall results. In turn these amazing
results will allow the company to grow and the community! This will allow everyone to succeed.
, 2. Chosen Organizational Structure and the Four Factors
(A2)
(1) When setting up a team’s structure you would need to consider the functions of the business that
is needed and the function of each employee. Being able to determine what functions are needed to
help the company are essential to a have a smooth working business that is beneficial to employees and
the community, as well as to the company’s success. Knowing that I will be utilizing a team’s structures
to determine what the functions are, will allow me to answer how I would want to group them. Would I
want to group them into teams that all share a common function or teams that have various functions.
Each have advantages and disadvantages but following this step will help in the first step of a cohesive
and prosperous company.
(2) A chain of command is an important part for our business consulting company and our team’s
structure. When deciding what structure, the company would choose played a large part with how the
chain of command would be set up. With a team’s structure it was important to apply a flat organization
chain of command. A flat organization would help promote better cost, promote the teams to have
more decision making an autonomy, and faster communication. (VitalSource, n.d.-b) Teams achieve
great success, having effective communications and while being able to have autonomy of decision
makings to allow them to be more of equals. This key point in the team structure to be successful is
supporting the chain of command.
(3) Teams organization will be used to support a decentralized organization. Like stated previously
with teams functions it’s important to allow autonomy over decisions. Teams really push the envelope
to allow innovation and resiliency among each team. In turn the entire company succeeds. When you go
for a more centralized structure you would allow only the highest level to make the decision and we
would be missing an opportunity for profit, the community growth, and the employee growth. There
may be conflict however with decentralized structure it typically is a flat organization and has overall
better and faster communication. (VitalSource, n.d.-b) This will allow us to have a company that tries
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UPDATE
D078 TEM1 - Business Environment Applications I: Business Structures and Legal Environment - Organizational
Structure, Task 1
Name: Madalyn Rodriguez-Grant
Student ID: 011470338
Task 1: Organizational Structure
A.
1. Chosen Organizational Structure
(A1)
To have the most effective consulting business I believe the most effective organizational structure
to apply would be teams. With setting teams, it will consist of bringing people with different functions
into different teams to be able to balance each other and come up with a common idea to achieve our
company goals.
Being able to have a team’s structures has many features. One, it allows a group of people with
different skill sets and every level of knowledge to proceed at a higher functionality and produce the
best overall result. Second, each team will be separated out into different groups to form one team and
instead of the normal hierarchical system it will be set up to more of flat structure to promote more
personal decision making among the individual teams. This will promote them to strive to achieve the
highest goal by putting each other all at the same level as everyone. The mission of the company is to
“facilitate sustainable social, economic, and environmental development opportunities for the good of
businesses in the community.” (WGU Performance Assessment, n.d.) As seen by the company
mission statement we want to give growth to the community and the company by setting up our
corporation in a team’s structure. It will help achieve the best overall results. In turn these amazing
results will allow the company to grow and the community! This will allow everyone to succeed.
, 2. Chosen Organizational Structure and the Four Factors
(A2)
(1) When setting up a team’s structure you would need to consider the functions of the business that
is needed and the function of each employee. Being able to determine what functions are needed to
help the company are essential to a have a smooth working business that is beneficial to employees and
the community, as well as to the company’s success. Knowing that I will be utilizing a team’s structures
to determine what the functions are, will allow me to answer how I would want to group them. Would I
want to group them into teams that all share a common function or teams that have various functions.
Each have advantages and disadvantages but following this step will help in the first step of a cohesive
and prosperous company.
(2) A chain of command is an important part for our business consulting company and our team’s
structure. When deciding what structure, the company would choose played a large part with how the
chain of command would be set up. With a team’s structure it was important to apply a flat organization
chain of command. A flat organization would help promote better cost, promote the teams to have
more decision making an autonomy, and faster communication. (VitalSource, n.d.-b) Teams achieve
great success, having effective communications and while being able to have autonomy of decision
makings to allow them to be more of equals. This key point in the team structure to be successful is
supporting the chain of command.
(3) Teams organization will be used to support a decentralized organization. Like stated previously
with teams functions it’s important to allow autonomy over decisions. Teams really push the envelope
to allow innovation and resiliency among each team. In turn the entire company succeeds. When you go
for a more centralized structure you would allow only the highest level to make the decision and we
would be missing an opportunity for profit, the community growth, and the employee growth. There
may be conflict however with decentralized structure it typically is a flat organization and has overall
better and faster communication. (VitalSource, n.d.-b) This will allow us to have a company that tries
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