Answer to Question #320492 in Management for Krishna

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Question: EarthMovers Ltd are into providing heavy vehicle services. They have various heavy vehicles like tractors, cranes, bull dozers, mixer trucks, etc. They have been growing increasingly and have employed a total staff of 1200. They have divided their business in a Divisional structure. Based on this information, answer the following questions.

a. Discuss the features of divisional structure of organization and infer the divisions that EarthMovers may have employed. 

b. Elaborate on the factors that influence organizational structures.

Answer 1

Units of a divisional organization can be defined on a product, customer or geographical basis, according to Status.net. For example, a company in the automobile industry can divide its organizational structure based on its specialization.

Location

We live in a global, digital age. Companies across all industries have to consider how they’ll handle employees who work from home, employees in satellite offices or international offices, partners, freelancers, and the many complexities of the 21st-century workplace.

Culture

What do you want your employees to think or feel when they come to work and how can your team structure make that happen? While seemingly intangible, there are a lot of concrete factors that affect a company’s brand.