College of Administrative and Financial Sciences Assignment 3 Deadline: 12/04/2020 @ 23:59 Course Name: Organization Design & Development Student’s Name: Course Code: MGT404 Student’s ID Number: Semester: II CRN: Academic Year: 1440/1441 H For Instructor’s Use only Instructor’s Name: Students’ Grade: Level of Marks: Instructions – PLEASE READ THEM CAREFULLY • The Assignment must be submitted on Blackboard (Both WORD and PDF format) via allocated folder. • Assignments submitted through email will not be accepted. • Students are advised to make their work clear and well presented, marks may be reduced for poor presentation. This includes filling your information on the cover page. • Students must mention question number clearly in their answer. • Late submission will NOT be accepted. • Avoid plagiarism, the work should be in your own words, copying from students or other resources without proper referencing will result in ZERO marks. No exceptions. • All answered must be typed using Times New Roman (size 12, double-spaced) font. No pictures containing text will be accepted and will be considered plagiarism). • Submissions without this cover page will NOT be accepted. Department of Business Administration Organization Design and Development- MGT 404 Assignment 3 Marks: 10 Course Learning Outcomes: • Demonstrate and analyze the organizational structure and the capability with organization’s strategies. (Lo 1.6 & 2.2) • Define the human, structural and strategic dimensions of the organizational development (Lo 1.5 & 3.1) Assignment Instructions: • Be sure to use at least one scholarly, peer-reviewed reference in support of each answer and also incorporate the key concepts from the course. Assignment Workload: • This Assignment comprise of a Case study. • Assignment is to be submitted by each student individually. Assignment-1 • Please read the case study entitled as “Amazon. com’s Network Structure.” available in the textbook “Organization Development & Change” 9th edition by Cummings, T and Worley, C and answer the following questions: Assignment Question(s): • Q.1 Explain how following a network-based structure is advantageous to Amazon in terms of conducting its business activities. Support your answer by using two examples from this case study (2.5 marks) (Lo 1.6 & 2.2) • Q.2 Discuss the potential challenges that could be facing Amazon as a result of following a network-based structure. Support your answer by using two examples from this case study (2.5 marks) (Lo 1.6 & 2.2) • Q.3 Based on comparing product-centric with customer-centric structures, explain how could Amazon.com empower its business partners that are seeking to centralize their organization on either one of those structures (3 marks) (Lo 1.5 & 3.1) • Q.4 What would you recommend as potential core processes if Amazon has decided to follow a process-based structure? Explain and justify three of those processes (2 Marks) (Lo 1.5 & 3.1) Answers: A.1… A.2… A.3… A.4… 
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