Chapter 8 Management Activities
1. Planning
Click on the links below to read Addidas' Strategic Plan
- Summarise article and complete a SWOT analysis on Addidas
- These can be used as examples when answering questions on this topic.
http://www.adidas-group.com/en/pressroom/archive/2010/08nov2010.aspx
Click on this link to read Addidas' mission statement
- again use this as an example in your solutions to questions
chapter_8_planning.docx | |
File Size: | 34 kb |
File Type: | docx |
2. Organising -Management Structures
For plans to be implemented succesfully companies need to be organised from the top down.
Tesco is a hierarchical structure because it has a lot of layers of management.
What is a Hierarchical structure? A hierarchical structure has many
levels. Each level is controlled by one person. A hierarchical company tends to
be a very big company just like Tesco is. In a hierarchical instructions are
generally passed down from one person to another until it gets to the bottom of
the hierarchical structure. If there was a problem in a hierarchical structure
it would move up through the structure again from one person to another until it
gets to where it is supported to be. In a hierarchical structure there is a close control of workers. Workers in Tesco will know exactly what they have to do so they don't wait around until they are told.
Businesses tend to organise themselves geographically, functionally (departments), by product or by project (matrix).
chapter_8__organising.docx | |
File Size: | 221 kb |
File Type: | docx |
3. Control
The management activity of Control is essential to ensure plans
stay on track and achieve their targets. The activity of control overlaps with
those of planning and organising. The manager must regularly check the businesses performance in key areas such as Human Resources, Stock management, Finance, Customer Service, Production etc. If any of these areas is
underperforming the manager must take action so as to ensure they reach their
objectives.
Use the Toyota case study below as an example of Stock and Quality Control
chapter_8_control.docx | |
File Size: | 20 kb |
File Type: | docx |
toyota_case_study_jit_and_tqm.docx | |
File Size: | 96 kb |
File Type: | docx |
chapter_8_control.docx | |
File Size: | 19 kb |
File Type: | docx |