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Analyzing Organizational Structure for Multiproduct and Multiservice Companies

The assignment analyzes organizational structures for companies offering multiple products and services, focusing on management strategies.

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    Analyzing Organizational Structure for Multiproduct and Multiservice Companies 1) Consider Analytical Exercise 7 at the end of Chapter 3: “Among the weaknesses of the divisional structure is the duplication of activities and potential of counter-productive inter-market competition for customers, which is not only inefficient but can limit opportunities for cooperation across market segments and waste resources.” This statement applies to conglomerate organizations. Can you think of a form of structure that is better suited to multiproduct, multiservice companies? Defend your answer. Respond substantively to two other learners. The best form of structure for a multiproduct, multiservice company would be divisional structure. Divisional structure is a lot like machine bureaucracy,” The divisional structure is actually a set of autonomous units, each typically a machine bureaucracy unto itself, coordinated by a central headquarters (Robbins, 1990). However “Machine bureaucracies have difficulty adapting to changes in the environment, such as significant product changes brought about by market demand.” Reilly, M., Minnick, C., & Baack, D. (2011). With a divisional structure you are able to have a handful of strong machine bureaucracy’s lead by one central “boss”. This way the machine bureaucracies aren’t needed to adapt to changes in the environment, another machine bureaucracy will just focus on the new product or service demanded by the

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