P4 Explain How the Style of Organisation Helps Them to Fulfil Their Purposes

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P4 explain how the style of organisation helps them to fulfil their purposes Sainsbury Organisational Structure and Culture An Organisation’s structure is a network of interdependencies among the people and the tasks that make up the Organisation. It is created and sustained by the basic coordination mechanisms of mutual adjustment, direct supervision and standardization, all of which coordinate inter-dependent relationships among people and groups. Organisational structure of Sainsbury. Organisational structure of Sainsbury. Level of Management: SMT: Senior Management Teams = Directors MM: Middle Management = Managers SM: Supervising Management= Supervisors Importance of organisation structure Structure serves as basis for maintaining and structuring organisational activities. Organisations shall understand importance of structure in carrying out business operations and its relation to strategy. Each structure has its advantages and disadvantages on how it contributes to its effectiveness, and organisation has to mull over the decision on what structures it follows, plus the autonomy organisations provide to its employees for purpose of decision making. Organisation can choose from variety of structure like, functional, divisional, project teams, holding companies and matrix structure. Failure to choose an effective structure has it consequences on organisation as it will not only affect health of the organisation it will also affect employees loyalty, motivation at work and job satisfaction, thus organisation when deciding for designing structure needs to take care of all aspects that relates to people and working of organisation. Aim and objectives of Sainsbury Sainsbury’s approach to business is providing quality
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