UGBA 10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Station Wagon, Departmentalization

• School: Berkeley
• Department: Business Administration Undergraduate Program
• Course: UGBA 10
• Professor: Banks C G

Document Summary

Depends on purpose, mission, strategy, competition, size, and stage of maturity. Match: what makes it easy to get the desired results. Power = level of organization over number of layers. Expanded globally and gives m a year for charitable causes. Mature companies: highly specialized while lower-level employees are. Started selling ice cream out of renovated gas station, to station wagon, to its own franchise stores. Company decreased co2 emissions 32% by gallon, protested cloned cows not being labeled, and are using cage-free eggs in production! Now bought by unileap but still under same environmental/social startegy facilities, distribution centers, headquarters, foundation, and marketing offices. Department of homeland security in the us government. Allows management to control critical parts of the business. By function: focus on a function to departmentalize! Leadership: create a vision of the company, set the company values that guide employee behavior, monitor the execution of strategy, determine when change is needed, and lead the change.