Alibaba Group

The company lays emphasis on its culture, which entails individuality, infirmity, growth, non- conformity and pride in what the company produces. It also focuses on providing excellent wages and benefits, superior training and advancement opportunities and also providing excellence which is the key to success for every business.

Founded in 1992 by Lu Quin with a small investment, a ceramics machinery manufacturer. They modeled their business after the European market leaders. By 2002, they got listed on the shanghai Stock Exchange, in 2009 they reported revenues of US$209M almost double the amount of 2006.

This study scrutinizes the culture and structure of two corporations: Microsoft and FedEX. Further, the similarities and differences of structure and culture of an organizations are examined. The impact of organizational structure and culture on business performance and the factors that motivate employees in an organization are examined.

          An organization, in its simplest form, is comprised of people brought together to achieve a common goal whether it be solving a problem, selling a product or providing a service. The existence of the organization is wholly dependent on the collective body of individuals involved and it is these individuals that are the driving force behind the success or failure of a company. The relationships that connect the people within the organization dictate how the culture is developed and perceived.

Organizational structure has been set up to facilitate all goal achievements. It is a way to motivate their employees and get them to work together. It also helps its employees to follow the organizations goals, and work together as a team. In order to do this, they need to have an organized structure to be able to run the company smoothly. A main foundation of every organization is to post their mission statement and goals everywhere so that their employees can see them. An organizational culture can consist of common shared beliefs and values that are established by the organization’s leader, and then communicated and reinforce through various methods, this helps shape employee perceptions, behaviors and understanding. Overall, organizational structure and culture can effect progress of many organizations in a positive and negative way.

The structure of an organization determines the allocation of roles, regulations, and responsibilities, and therefore builds a basis for the culture in an organization. There is a constant relationship between organizational structure and organizational culture that provides a theme within an organization. Both can be difficult to clearly define and distinguish when analyzing an organization. Organization culture is a perspective into the company’s personality; it provides descriptive values, principals, traditions, and a way of doing things that effect how members view the organization (Robbins, DeCenzo, & Coulter, 2013). The organizational structure builds the

Apart from the company president,which is the head,the company still has a Board of Directors with the chairman of the board.And also an advisory board,elected by the workers are generally valued by the employees.

A few factors assume a part in the accomplishment of an organization that are past the extent of money related explanations alone. Authoritative culture, service rationality and morals in business each affect how well a business performs in the long term. Regardless of the size, business or level of gainfulness of an association, business morals are a standout amongst the most critical parts of long term achievement.

Jack Ma Is Alibaba’s lead founder and, since May 2013, has served as our executive chairman. From our founding in 1999 until May 2013, Jack served as our chairman and chief executive officer (Alibaba Group, 2014). As the aspect of CEO, first of all Alibaba was founded by Jack Ma, it is clearly that Alibaba will not exist without Jack Ma, So Jack should have absolute control for Alibaba. Then, Alibaba is not alone in terms of a founder having compete control over a company. Both Facebook and Google also have dual share classes where the companies’ founders basically have complete control. However, Google and Facebook have been very nice to their common shareholders. There has a very important reason for founders are normally better at running tech companies tech companies is as founders generally think longer term and are more willing to take risks to pursue potentially worthwhile ideas. From this perspective, Alibaba being under the control of Jack Ma is not necessarily a bad thing. Jack Ma has done the impossible by forming China's most valuable technology company with very limited resources. Ma defeated eBay, for example, by forming a website called Taobao with an initial investment of only one million yuan and he also create big event that created $9.31 billion trading volume one day at 11 November 2014 in Taobao website. Now with Alibaba's stock as currency,

Groupon, Inc. (“Groupon”) is a company that specializes in local commerce. It has relationships with companies on a global scale and alerts consumers on the hottest deals with respect to shopping for various products, travel destinations, and popular spots, goods and services that a city has to offer. The stock ticker for the company on the NASDAQ exchange is “GRPN.” The company is listed under the sector ‘Technology’ and industry ‘Internet Information Providers.’ It started off as ‘ThePoint.com, Inc.’ but in October 2008 it changed its name to ‘Groupon, Inc.” Groupon was founded in 2008 by the now ousted CEO Andrew Mason. The current CEO is Eric Lefkofsky who initially invested $1,000,000 toward the development of the company. The Chief

The culture of ownership is great strategy to motivate employees because the owners try harder than employees, both to improve the customer satisfaction and to save costs. This can be done in 2 ways

In order for one to evaluate and identify with the diverse business structures, he/she must be aware of the meaning and standards that makes that structure. Various businesses functions in different ways as the world is full of technology and new structures, company cultures and new ways in which companies are run. In order to fully grasp the concepts of Organizational structure and culture in the movies, I will use the Movie Up in the Air and The Devil Wear Prada movies to analyze a business scenario from them.

The culture of an organization is the set of values, beliefs, behaviors, customs, and attitudes that helps its members understand what the organization stands for, how it does things, and what it considers important"(Griffin, 49). In other words, "the way things work around here" (Dr. Williams). In order for any small business or large corporation to be successful, the employees must understand what is expected of them. While things might be slightly different in a large corporation versus a small "mom and pop shop", the goal of both is the same. MAKE THE BUSINESS MONEY. The topic of my paper will be on makes a good corporate culture.

Alibaba Group is the world's outstanding business-to-business e-commerce service company, which provides an efficient online trading platform for buyers and suppliers all over the world. It is China's largest e-commerce group which was founded by Jack Ma in 1999, and has developed into seven affiliated groups, namely Alibaba International Business Operations, Alibaba Small Business Operations, Taobao Marketplace, Tmall.com, Juhuasuan, e-Tao and Alibaba Cloud Computing (News, 2012). Besides, Alibaba Group has more than 24,000 employees in 70 cities which scattered in China, India, Japan, Korea, the United Kingdom and the United States (News, 2012).

When examining the values of a company, one must take into account the different metrics which make up the way that a company is perceived. Vision, Image, and Culture of a company must be aligned in order for a company to achieve an optimal result. When there is a gap in the cohesiveness of these aspects, a company will experience setbacks or