Essay on Procter and Gable

Please use this template to answer the questions below in essay format. The minimum word count for the three questions of Part 1 is 300 words total (or 100 words per question). A reference citation is required.

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Is the present structure consistent with current corporate objectives, strategies, policies, and programs, as well as with the firm's international operations?

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Structure is the basis through which an organization seeks to create control the direction of an organization. This is completed through clear definitions of the allocation of work, differentiation, and the coordination of having those responsibilities working together towards the efforts of the organization, integration (Bolman & Deal, 1993, pp). Through these methods, the organization is able to devise a division of labor that collaborates to bring about the missions and goals of an organization. The structure that comes about from this can be varied in their rigidness and flexibility it allows, and to an extent this is a great contribution to its success.

This structure is unlike that of the Philips where locals, within the national organizations, held senior management positions. Basically, the structure gave some leeway to product control but still kept the same global image of Matsushita. As times/cultures changed, the strategy that existed with Matsushita during the early years proved to be the foundation of a successful company.

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  1.Why did the US organizational structure shift from product grouping in the 1950s to a matrix in the 1980s? Why did the European organizational structure shift from geographic grouping in the 1950s to category management in the 1980s? Why were the two structures integrated into a global cube in the 1990s?

P&G set up the newly reorganized global operations. I’m going to explain how the company works with its new global operations strategy and how P&G could push SK-II to world brand by using P&G’s target market – China, Europe, and Japan. By using the implement of Organization 2005 (O2005), the company is expected to have more annual growth rate together with less expense. P&G gives more compensation along with more responsibility tasks. P&G allows every employee in company to hold firm’s stock. P&G transferred primary profit responsibility from P&G four regional organizations to seven global business units.

Primary profit responsibility shifted from P&Gs four regional organisation to seven GBUs that would now manage product development, manufacturing and marketing of their respective categories worldwide

It did so in order to better focus its resources on changing customer needs as well as emphasize its strengths in the market place. The organizational structure now consists of centralized engineering and marketing organizations. This way the company has the ability to prevent product and resource overlaps and more effectively allocate its resources to areas yielding optimum profitability. The engineering side has eleven technology groups with people heading multiple groups and reporting to one person who then reports to the CEO. The marketing side has one head who reports to the CEO as well.

3. Is the present structure consistent with current corporate objectives, strategies, policies, and programs, as well as with the firm’s international operations? Yes, all areas are

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A global product group structure is a variant organizational structure which has product groups along a vertical axis and foreign (overseas) divisions, or business units, on a horizontal axis. The primary purpose of the product group structure is:

With direct-connect structure, the business leaders or functional managers of specific business divisions report to their headquarters in the U.S.. After the direct-connect structure is implemented, it has changed the operation in GE Canada. In the past, the Canadian CEO was fully responsible for the profitability of the Canadian operating division, with the manufacturing plants made a full line of products primarily for the Canadian market with some exporting possibilities. After the new management system implemented, the U.S. divisional bosses is responsible for the profitability of each operational business division both in the U.S. and Canada. With the change in management system, the business development group has changed its position in GE Canada by switching the role of conducting feasibility studies and new market development for the business unit in Canada to the role of looking for opportunities to leverage the strengths of Canadian activities on a global basis. The business development group felt that the change in management system has made the U.S.-based business leaders to ignore the potential business opportunity in Canada and added more uncertainty to the business development group role. Most decisions need approval from the U.S. divisional bosses, whom do not have a complete picture of the business potential in Canada and want full control of the business operations