Assignment Problem: What is the necessary management strategy the Kraft Heinz Company should use?
Start organizing tasks and how they should be accomplished to elicit the behaviours you want in your organization.
There are six structural variables that can help you create stability in your organization and you need to discuss how they relate to the organization you are analyzing.
The six structural variables are:
1. Job design: Describes the manner in which the total task of an organization is divided into separate jobs. You can measure how many processes are used to produce the final product and the amount of time it takes.
2. Coordination and departmentation: The methods used to coordinate the work of individuals and sub-units.
3. Decision-making and leadership: The nature of the decision-making and the leadership processes used in the organization. You can discuss the management systems in place and the measures the organization uses to determine its level of success. For example a quality system might measure the number of defective parts.
4. Communication and information: The nature of the information shared and the methods used in sharing information in an organization.
5. Control system: The nature of the processes used to control behaviour in the organization; for example, an employee handbook or performance evaluation. Measures of control can include the number of people who attended a formal orientation and the number of performance appraisals completed each year.
6. Reward system: The type of extrinsic and intrinsic rewards that motivate individuals and reinforce the desired behaviors required to achieve goals.