1. Text book: Managing & Using Information Systems A Strategic Approach – Pearlson and Saunders. Best. At Sears, Eddie Lampert's Warring Divisions Model Adds to the Troubles. Every year the presidents of Sears Holdings’ (SHLD) many business units trudge across the company’s sprawling headquarters in Hoffman Estates, Ill., to a conference room in Building B, where they ask Eddie Lampert for money.
The leaders have made these solitary treks since 2008, when Lampert, a reclusive hedge fund billionaire, splintered the company into more than 30 units. Each meeting starts quietly: When the executive arrives, Lampert’s top consiglieri are there, waiting around a U-shaped table, according to interviews with a half-dozen former employees who attended these sessions. An assistant walks in, turns on a screen on the opposite wall, and an image of Lampert flickers to life. The Sears chairman, who lives in a $38 million mansion in South Florida and visits the campus no more than twice a year (he hates flying), is usually staring at his computer when the camera goes live, according to attendees.
Lampert’s story is legendary on Wall Street. “C’mon everybody,” she sang. A Hierarchical Organizational Structure. Federal Bureau of Investigation. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is a governmental agency belonging to the United States Department of Justice that serves as both a federal criminal investigative body and an internal intelligence agency (counterintelligence).[2] Also, it is the government agency responsible for investigating crimes on Native American reservations in the United States[3] under the Major Crimes Act.
The FBI has investigative jurisdiction over violations of more than 200 categories of federal crime.[4] The bureau was established in 1908 as the Bureau of Investigation (BOI). Its name was changed to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in 1935. The FBI headquarters is the J. Edgar Hoover Building, located in Washington, D.C. Budget, mission and priorities In the fiscal year 2012, the bureau's total budget was approximately $8.12 billion.[5] Currently, the FBI's top investigative priorities are:[6] Indian reservations Legal authority FBI badge and service pistol, a Glock Model 22, .40 S&W caliber.
File:FBI-organizational-chart.jpg. Matrix management. A matrix organization Strictly speaking matrix management is the practice of managing individuals with more than one reporting line (in a matrix organization structure), but it is also commonly used to describe managing cross functional, cross business group and other forms of working that cross the traditional vertical business units – often silos - of function and geography.
What is matrix management? [edit] It is a type of organizational management in which people with similar skills are pooled for work assignments, resulting in more than one manager (sometimes referred to as solid line and dotted line reports, in reference to traditional business organization charts). For example, all engineers may be in one engineering department and report to an engineering manager, but these same engineers may be assigned to different projects and report to a different engineering manager or a project manager while working on that project.
The Matrix for project management[edit] Organizational Structures. Introduction Any operating organization should have its own structure in order to operate efficiently.
For an organization, the organizational structure is a hierarchy of people and its functions. The organizational structure of an organization tells you the character of an organization and the values it believes in. Therefore, when you do business with an organization or getting into a new job in an organization, it is always a great idea to get to know and understand their organizational structure. Depending on the organizational values and the nature of the business, organizations tend to adopt one of the following structures for management purposes. Although the organization follows a particular structure, there can be departments and teams following some other organizational structure in exceptional cases. Sometimes, some organizations may follow a combination of the following organizational structures as well.
The Advantages of Flat Organizational Structure. Flat organization. A flat organization (also known as horizontal organization or delayering) is an organization that has an organizational structure with few or no levels of middle management between staff and executives.
The idea is that well-trained workers will be more productive when they are more directly involved in the decision making process, rather than closely supervised by many layers of management. The flat organization model promotes employee involvement through a decentralized decision-making process. By elevating the level of responsibility of baseline employees and eliminating layers of middle management, comments and feedback reach all personnel involved in decisions more quickly. Expected response to customer feedback becomes more rapid. Self-managing teams[edit] The "strong form" of a flat organization is an organization with no middle managers at all. However, some organizations do not take on middle managers even as they become larger, and remain extremely flat. Prof. ▶ Business and Finance Lesson 7: Organizational Chart, Tall or Flat? (Learn English) - YouTube. 4 CIIMA2011 10 2 Marchewka 1 14. RL32095.pdf.