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1.Questions:
1) Draw the firm’s current organizational chart;
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2) Comment on the chart
There are 7 departments. Its structure is vertical, it is grouped by functions. The
departments have decision power, for example the Accounting and Human
department as it is said in the text “Finally, people from the Accounting and
Human Resources department are endowed with enough autonomy to take
decisions related with the issue”. Technical differences and complexity, and
coordination problems are the main problems.
3) Identify those organizational units having decisional power and
those not having any decisional power (Staff units);
According to the text most of the departments have decisional power. Maintenance
and Finance are the ones which do not have decisional power.
4) Comment on the interrelations among different departments;
The different interrelations among departments are different. The relation
maintained between Accounting and Finance department is based on the
information, they share information , about costs, prices, benefits... Another
relation maintained is between production and Maintenance, they share
information about materials needed.
5) Comment on the work organization of the Production department,
and on its technical (manufacturing) facilities;
The information and technical skills required are really different between the
process related to speciality goods and the manufacturing system. Manufacturing
process is more difficult and it requires workers with studies and knowledge about
it. On the other hand, the process related to specialty goods is simple. There are
