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Step1 Organizationl Structure
Take a look at the Organization Chart provided by the company.
- Based on your knowledge of hierarchies, would you say that this team has tall structure or flat structure? Explain your answer.
Step 2: Human Resources
The company would like to improve the culture of its team and the quality of its work. Its leadership has provided you with a Process Chart detailing how it currently applies Human Resources best practices.
- What step of the Human Resources Cycle is missing? Explain why it is important to include this part of the process.
Note: You should complete Step 3 after reading the material in Week 9.
STEP 3: Leadership Style
You have been asked to help improve the leadership style of the team leader in order to meet the team’s performance goals. The team leader has given you a description of what is most comfortable in terms of leading others.
- Identify this leader’s style of leadership, and list two benefits and two drawbacks to that style as it relates to the performance of the team.
Step 4: Real-World Application
Apply the thinking in Steps 1-3 as if you were a Leadership Consultant hired by the company where you work or for a previous employer.
- Review the organization chart for your company. Based on your knowledge of hierarchies, would you say that your company’s team has a tall structure or flat structure? How does this affect the way your team works? Explain your answer.
- Consider the work conducted by the Human Resources team at your company. What steps of the Human Resources Cycle do they implement well? What steps of the Human Resources Cycle might be missing from your company or are not implemented as well as they could be? What is the effect of this on you and your team? Explain your answer.
- Lastly, reflect on the leadership style of either yourself or your supervisor. What leadership style do you have, or what leadership style does your supervisor have? What are the benefits and drawbacks of this style for your team? What might you or your supervisor do to improve leadership? Explain your answer.
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Step 1: ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE
The company’s organizational structure can be described as a tall structure. The structure is
characterized by multiple vertical lines of commands and authority, consisting of managers and
directors (Onono, 2018). The executive managers hold the top position of the structure, middle
managers occupy the middle, while associates managers, and junior managers are at the bottom. Every
middle manager controls a group of employees in a certain department and is also under the direct
superior authority's control. For example, the operations manager and food beverage directors are
under the general manager's authority. Under the operation, managers are the financial director, the
sales manager, and the logistic manager. In the tall organizational structure, directives from the toplevel management are implemented by all employees through multiple middle-level managers.
STEP 2: HUMAN RESOURCES
The company is missing the second step of the human resource cycle: induction, orientation,
and onboarding. The step follows the hiring step where the employee becomes part of the company
but knows nothing about what is expected of them (Kumar & Pandey, 2017). Therefore, the step is
vital because it provides the employer and the...