Leadership and Organizational Behavior Project Proposal
A brief overview of the chosen organization and my role in it
The coca cola company is the organization under discussion on the project proposal. The organization entails of two groups independently operating namely corporate and bottling investments (French, 2011). By enabling decision making in local level through the further subdivisions, the organization responds to the rapid changing demands in the market. This enables the higher management to focus majorly on long time planning. Divisions of the organization e.g. finance, marketing, innovation, human resource, planning and strategy, are located within the mainstream of the corporate company’s division. Some of the tasks take place at the organizations lower level of the regions, but most decisions are finalized at the higher level of the chain of command. Local divisions are allowed mostly to make advertising decisions hence enabling them to design specifically commercials appealing to the local market (French, 2011). I am a marketing manager at one of the organization’s corporate levels. I started under the new management of Neville Isdel. He took over when the organization was faced with a variety of internal problems under the previous management over the years. There had been a struggle to constantly handle the organization’s effort to meet employees’ demands while on the other hand trying to keep labor costs low. In 2005, the organization’s workers went on strike due to the suggestion by the management to institute a policy suggesting employees t pay a greater portion of their health benefits.
The moment Neville Isdel became the chairman and CEO of the coca cola company back in 2004 he put into practice integrating mechanisms that were complex. This was meant to help handle the low growth of the organization involving the use of top managerial teams. This was meant to help craft solutions to the utmost pressing problems of the organization. He orchestrated meetings in the local’s levels regularly to maintain informing the organization employees. The application of complex mechanism to integrate solutions is of significant to such wide and tall organization. The company has been to extent played a vital role in balancing mutual adjustments and standardization in leadership. The organization’s code of manners forms the grounds as a guide book to every employee (French, 2011). The organization’s leadership structure is a hybrid under the management of Isdel of organic and mechanistic models. The leadership focal point of the organization is based on responsiveness. The complex mechanisms form part of the organic formation while High standardization and centralization are mechanistic structure associated.
The problem I would like to research and resolve is the great deal of power the corporate board has and influence over decision making. Centralization of the management maintains the organizational choices aligned with its goals corresponding to its strategies towards organic and decentralized structures. The general structural chart of the organization shows that it at the corporate level, it has supplementary than five hierarchical levels (Yammarino & Dansereau, 2009).
Preliminary Problem Statement
The organizational structure of the coca cola company and the managerial Behavior associated.
This includes communication problems solved through the application of intranet communication is boosted at every level. It also allows the top management to communicate efficiently in front lining of its employees. The organization has also put more emphasis on cost savings and utilization of its resources. Under the management of Isdel, they tend to offshore their operations, reduce benefit plans, lay-off people and, overall, not value their employees as their asset. The coca cola company has the structured creativity and personnel to make an extra pioneering culture by championing for decentralizing the company (Wong, 2007). The research will be substantially basing on the multidivisional structure meant to advantage the organization in numerous ways. The structures simplify everything for divisional managers when handling the organizations daily operations. Corporate managers under the structure are also free to spotlight on long term effective planning.
The problems associating with the structure are also of significance under the research. The creation of divisional considerable effort and coordination may diminish due to the structure as every division strives for advantage over the other. The proper coordination of the structures under the management of Isdel would increase coordination between corporate and divisional levels. Each level manager would coordinate together to create possible solutions to problems arising. The complexness of such structures in the global organization of the company is taken into concern (Kerzner, 2009).The TCO or textbook topic the problem is related to is ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE: AUTHORITY & CONTROL with the coca cola company organizational structure and behavior being the chosen organization
References
French, R. (2011). Organizational behavior. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
Kerzner, H. (2009). Project management: A systems approach to planning, scheduling, and controlling. Hoboken, N.J: John Wiley & Sons.
Wong, Z. (2007). Human factors in project management: Concepts, tools, and techniques for inspiring teamwork and motivation. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Yammarino, F. J., & Dansereau, F. (2009). Multi-level issues in organizational behavior and leadership. Bingley [etc.: Emerald JAI.
