Introduction
The case study on the organizational structure of the Illinois shoe corporation is related to the adaptation of the structure to the up-to-date market situation, taking into account the occurred difficulties in the structure originated by the conflict within the employees.
Essential structural modifications occurs, for instance, when an organization modifies its overall tactics for success, adds or takes off a key section or practice, and wishes to change the very origin by which it works. It also happens when a corporation evolves through a variety of life sequences, just like people must effectively advance through life cycles. For institutes to develop, they often must undergo considerable change at various tips in their enhancement. That’s why the topic of managerial change and enhancement has become extensive in contacts about business, organizations, headship and supervision.
Recommendations
As a matter of fact, Freeman, according to the description of the situation, seems absolutely useless team-member. Taking into account the given scheme, it is necessary to mention, that the post of a statistician can be combined by the order clerk Ferguson, or additional obligations could be imposed on Freeman, as the issues of statistics may be successfully solved by Information technologies. Anyway, It department is an essential part of any organization, that is why, this point should be included in the organizational changes.
The design department is unjustifiably extended. The rank of controller is unnecessary, as if the department works effectively, his work is not required; if it does not – controller will not solve the problem of efficiency, as it would become the matter of staff office. And the obligations of control may be performed either by styling manager, or by the whole company jointly (it is meant, that if the design department works efficiently, the sales, and the cooperation with the clients will increase, and vice versa).
Thus, two jobs may be shortened without any serious consequences, and additional department should be added. The fact is that, inspite of seeming uselessness, IT acts one of the key roles in the team work of any corporation: its functions are the following:
- Internet promotion
- Software development (as it has been pointed above – for statistic accounting, for instance)
- System administration
After the reorganization of structure – the chart will look the following
The hierarchy which is depicted below would stay without any changes.
Comments that could be made on the scheme are described above, but it would be necessary to add, that director of e-commerce will directly cooperate with the IT department, especially, if the documentation and statistics stockpiling is imposed on it.
Another important factor is the staff office. It should be engaged with the quality control, or just cooperate with the quality control department. But this way, the staff of the company would be really unjustifiably huge. Staff office here is referred as the key HR institution, and it is meant, that staff office needs to cooperate with the person or department engaged in quality control for effective HRM. If the quality decreases, staff office gets the signal to either search for a new candidate, or make the rotation of the employees.
References
Innovation and change. A motor corporation Managing dynamics process. pp. 433-436.