You are a group of top managers of one of the Big Three car makers in Pakistan. Your company has been experiencing increased competition from other car makers like Toyota and Honda whose innovations in car design and manufacturing methods have allowed them to produce cars that are higher in quality and lower in cost than yours. You have been charged with preparing a plan to change the company’s structure to allow you to compete better, and you have decided on two main changes. First, you plan to reengineer the company and move from a multidivisional structure (in which each division produces its own range of cars) to one in which cross-functional product teams become responsible for developing new car models that will be sold by all the divisions. Second, you have decided to implement a total quality management program to raise quality and decentralize decision making authority to the teams and make them responsible for achieving higher quality and lower costs. Thus, the changes will disrupt role relationships at both the divisional and functional levels (a). Discuss the nature of the obstacles at the divisional, functional, and individual level that you will encounter in implementing this new structure. Which do you think will be the most important obstacles to overcome? (b). How would you implement the change in structure? Write down step by step in a sequential manner of your plan
You are a group of top managers of one of the Big Three car makers in Pakistan. Your company has been experiencing increased competition from other car makers like Toyota and Honda whose innovations in car design and manufacturing methods have allowed them to produce cars that are higher in quality and lower in cost than yours. You have been charged with preparing a plan to change the company’s structure to allow you to compete better, and you have decided on two main changes. First, you plan to reengineer the company and move from a multidivisional structure (in which each division produces its own range of cars) to one in which cross-functional product teams become responsible for developing new car models that will be sold by all the divisions. Second, you have decided to implement a total quality management program to raise quality and decentralize decision making authority to the teams and make them responsible for achieving higher quality and lower costs. Thus, the changes will disrupt role relationships at both the divisional and functional levels
(a). Discuss the nature of the obstacles at the divisional, functional, and individual level that you will encounter in implementing this new structure. Which do you think will be the most important obstacles to overcome?
(b). How would you implement the change in structure? Write down step by step in a sequential manner of your plan
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