Mgmt 530 Week 3 Individual Assignment

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Organizational Design Tracey Duggan MGMT/530 University of Phoenix January 14, 2012 Niraj Kohli Organizational Design Introduction MMC Electronics Inc., located in Japan, has announced that it will be expanding to the United States. Many things will need to be taken into consideration when starting operations in the United States. The organizational design will need to be determined for the United States location. The organizational structure may…show more content…
operating in Japan is a vertical specialization organization. There are individual departments consisting of Administration, Research and Development, Manufacturing, Sales, and Marketing. Each of these departments has its own vertical structure. “Organization charts in Japan rarely specify individual employees’ positions and roles; they are rather, networks of collective units such as department, sections, and work teams” (Lincoln, Hanada, & McBride, 1986, p. 341). Decision-making procedures at MMC Electronics Inc., combines high centralization of formal authority in top executive positions with high levels of actual or informal participation by employees of widely varying rank (Lincoln, Olson, & Hanada, 1978, p. 831). MMC Electronics Inc. uses a less formalized decentralized structure in the decision-making process. Consensus-base decision making is done by lower echelon employees. Employees will come to a mutual decision and that decision will be taken to top management for approval.
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