Ottawa Organizational Structure Information Processing & Decision Making Review

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Read the case study "The Morning Star's Lattice Structure" in Chapter 14 of our text. In a 2 page analysis, respond to all of the questions provided. Support your ideas with sources in addition to the text. Cite all sources, including your textbook, using the standard APA format. Include a title page, case summary, headings and conclusion in APA 7 format.

  • How would working for Morning Star be different from working at a traditional, bureaucratic company? What would be the most positive and negative aspects of the experience?
  • Do you think the lattice structure is best for Morning Star? Can you identify another structure that might be more appropriate for the company’s culture of empowerment and self-management?
  • Where do you think this type of lattice structure would be ineffective? What would make this type of structure inappropriate or difficult to implement? Attached Case study week6.PNG for reference.

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Your second article review is due this week. Select one of the articles you intend to use as a reference for the final project. Write a 2 page paper that describes the article’s main point and its value – or lack thereof – to your research. Describe what you learned from the article and how it relates to your case study.

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Running head: ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE Organizational Structure at Tesla Incorporation Bharath Kumar Sunkara Ottawa University Dr. Andy Black ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR THEORY Feb 7th, 2021. 1 ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE 2 Alghalith, N. (2018). Tesla: innovation with information technology. International Journal of Business Research and Information Technology, 5(1), 37-51. The journal examines several aspects such as the organizational structure, and business model of Tesla Inc. Alghalith (2018) uses tools such as strategic matrix and SWOT to analyze Tesla’s competitiveness and how it integrates its systems. Kim, H. (2020). Analysis of how Tesla Creating Core Innovation Capability. International Journal of Business and Management, 15(6), 20-38. The paper analyzes how Tesla penetrated and entered the market. Kim (2020) focuses on innovations made by the corporation that led to its breakthrough. The study aims to understand the terms of management and approach to consumers. Matthews, T., Hirve, M., Pan, Y., Dang, D., Rawar, E., & Daim, T. U. (2020). Tesla Energy. In Innovation Management in the Intelligent World (pp. 233-249). Springer, Cham. The paper indicates that Tesla’s centralized structure is still doing well in the international market due to innovations. Matthews et al. (2020) argue that Tesla has overcome most of the challenges that may hinder its expansion. Gentile-Lüdecke, S., de Oliveira, R. T., & Paul, J. (2020). Does organizational structure facilitate inbound and outbound open innovation in SMEs?. Small Business Economics, 55(4), 1091-1112. The journal is concerned about the effects of organizational culture on innovation. GentileLüdecke et al. (2020) identify the advantages of a centralized structure on open originality practices. ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE 3 Ahmed, M. A. (2017). The importance of organizational structuring and departmentalization in the workplace. The Journal of the Middle East and North Africa Sciences, 10(4086), 1-9. The journal is concerned about the relationship between continuous growth and organizational structure. Ahmed (2017) seeks to understand departmentalization's impact and determine the advantages and downsides to global and local companies. Joseph, J., & Gaba, V. (2020). Organizational structure, information processing, and decision-making: a retrospective and road map for research. Academy of Management Annals, 14(1), 267-302. Joseph and Gaba (2020) explain the function of organizational structure in making decisions. The rationale for selecting the paper is that centralization at Tesla affects junior managers' ability to make timely resolutions. Singh, R., & Ramdeo, S. (2020). Techno-Structural Interventions: Restructuring. In Leading Organizational Development and Change (pp. 261-284). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. Singh and Ramdeo (2020) are concerned about organizational development, which should consider restructuring. The insights shared could be used in Tesla's scenario to highlight why it needs to rethink its organizational structure. Peele, E. S. (2020). Restructuring Mobility Maintenance Organizations: Is It Time for Change. AIR FORCE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB OH WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB United States. ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE 4 In the report, the review examines the centralized nature of Tesla’s administration. There is also an analysis of the organizational redesigning process. Peele (2020) recommends the best company structure that can address the goals and scope of organizations. Yang, H., & Zhang, L. (2019). Communication and the Optimality of Hierarchy in Organizations. The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 35(1), 154-191. Yang and Zhang (2019) study the ideal structure of multidivisional companies. The authors note that while individual departments need to be coordinated, they should quickly adapt to regional conditions. The paper digs deep into decentralized, hierarchical, and centralized organizations. Trujillo, J. (2017). The Thinking of SpaceX/Tesla CEO Elon Musk. Existentia, 17, 231-61. Despite the disadvantages of a centralized organizational structure, Tesla continues to thrive. Hence, people have always wanted to know how Elon Musk, Tesla’s CEO, thinks. Trujillo (2017) venerates and decodes his leadership skills that have steered Tesla against competitors. ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE 5 References Ahmed, M. A. (2017). The importance of organizational structuring and departmentalization in the workplace. The Journal of the Middle East and North Africa Sciences, 10(4086), 1-9. Alghalith, N. (2018). Tesla: innovation with information technology. International Journal of Business Research and Information Technology, 5(1), 37-51. Gentile-Lüdecke, S., de Oliveira, R. T., & Paul, J. (2020). Does organizational structure facilitate inbound and outbound open innovation in SMEs?. Small Business Economics, 55(4), 1091-1112. Joseph, J., & Gaba, V. (2020). Organizational structure, information processing, and decisionmaking: a retrospective and road map for research. Academy of Management Annals, 14(1), 267-302. Kim, H. (2020). Analysis of how Tesla Creating Core Innovation Capability. International Journal of Business and Management, 15(6), 20-38. Matthews, T., Hirve, M., Pan, Y., Dang, D., Rawar, E., & Daim, T. U. (2020). Tesla Energy. In Innovation Management in the Intelligent World (pp. 233-249). Springer, Cham. Peele, E. S. (2020). Restructuring Mobility Maintenance Organizations: Is It Time for Change. AIR FORCE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB OH WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB United States. Singh, R., & Ramdeo, S. (2020). Techno-Structural Interventions: Restructuring. In Leading Organizational Development and Change (pp. 261-284). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. Trujillo, J. (2017). The Thinking of SpaceX/Tesla CEO Elon Musk. Existentia, 17, 231-61. Yang, H., & Zhang, L. (2019). Communication and the Optimality of Hierarchy in Organizations. The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 35(1), 154-191. CASE STUDY The Morning Star's Lattice Structure The Morning Star Company, a highly successful and growing $700 million California tomato-processing company, was founded on a philosophy of self-management. The company envisions "an organization of self- managing professionals who initiate communication and coordination of their activities with fellow colleagues, customers, suppliers, and fellow industry participants, absent directives from others."43 The core of the company's management philosophy is freedom, which is seen as important to effective coordination. The company believes that freedom allows employees to be drawn to what they really like as opposed to having to do what they're told, increasing both enthusiasm and performance. Extensive applicant screening for fit with the company's philosophy and new hire training on self-management helps employees adapt to the autonomy and responsibility of working without a formal boss. The company's lattice structure requires a high degree of self-management. Each year every employee writes a personal mission statement that identifies how he or she will contribute to Morning Star's overall objective of "producing tomato products and services which consistently achieve the quality and service expectations of our customers." Every employee also negotiates a Colleague Letter of Understanding (CLOU) with the associates most affected by his or her work. The letter creates an operating plan for each employee, spelling out the relevant performance metrics for as many as thirty activities. Employees are also personally responsible for acquiring the trainings, resources, and cooperation necessary to fulfill their role. 44 As in any organization, disputes arise between employees that must be settled. If an employee believes that someone has not lived up to his or her CLOU commitments, the two meet to discuss the issue. If they cannot resolve the matter, they choose a trusted internal mediator to hear their views. If the losing party objects to the proposed remedy, a panel of six colleagues assembles and either endorses the mediator's recommendation or proposes an alternative solution. If that is not accepted, the president brings both employees together and makes a binding decision. Reflecting employees' commitment to self-management, employee disputes rarely make it to the president.45
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Article Review and Analysis
The central theme of the topic is decision-making, information processing, and
organizational structure. Joseph & Gaba (2020) states that scholars have raised an interest in how
the corporate structure impacts decision making. In over seven decades, the study of information
processing, corporate structure, and decision making has spanned. The authors indicate that the
sectors of corporate strategy, theory, corporate economics, and others have included themselves
with this topic and have utilized distinct methods and theories to assess various causal
mechanisms, structural features, and results. Joseph & Gaba (2020) explains that the information
processing relationship with choice-making traces its line back to Herbert Simon in the corporate
research field.
Simon is a writer who was primarily concerned with comprehending how individuals
address challenges and make decisions. Simon incorporated psychological study into economics
and developed a more behavioral model to research human choice-making; Simon utilized
intellectual efforts. Initially, his ideology on information processing was entirely established with
two workstreams. Firstly, it concerned the administrative model that recognized hierarchically
administered decisions as the crucial aspect underlying a norm that was central to his study for
his career's duration. He discusses the communication necessities and procedures for effective
coordination. Based on them, the organization’s capacity to retain a complicated interdependent
activity sequence is restricted in part by its ability to handle the communication needed for
coordination.
Simon and Alan Newell looked into symbol processing, heuristic search, and human
problem-solving in the second stream. The two authors are said to have recognized the personal
decision-making procedure as an integral analysis unit. In this model, there is a significant

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