Saturday, November 7, 2009

Organization Design

In my life I have had quite a few jobs. I have had jobs with all of the basic forms of organization designs. I worked at market basket for about year, and they have a mostly a fucntional or U form of organization. I think this form of organization is good for very large companies like market basket. But also its much more impersonal, because the main manager of the store barely knows the lowest employees, like the cart boys. I also worked at a small liquor store, which was a family business. This business didnt really have a organization design because of the fact that it was so small. The recent job I have is Cirlce K, which is a small gas station convenient store. The store itself is very small but it is owned by a much larger corporation, Macs Convenience. This corporation has an organization desing similar to the divisional M-form design. They have many small businesses and stores that are all related somehow. With my experience I have found working at the circle k most enjoyable. This is because it is not a small family business, but it is owned by a large corporation. The store itself is aslo small so the manager knows all the employees very well and we all know each other very well.

What type of organization design do you think works best? Does it have to do with what type of company it is?

Friday, November 6, 2009

Response to Kendyll

Do you think athletes should get paid so much? So you think they deserve it?

I think that it is somewhat ridiculous that professional athletes get paid millions of dollars when that money could be used for other things that are more helpful in the world. America could use that money towards many things like to build new schools or build better hospitals. This is how America should use its money but realistically, sports competition is apparently more important. The reason why Alex Rodriguez and Derek Jeter, and other pro athletes get paid so much is because it is almost like an auction for them. When they are free agents they can sign with any team they want to. They will most of the time go with whatever team is offering to pay them the most. For example, when the Yankees wanted A. Rod back in 2004, they offered him a contract of $25 million, which was better than what the Rangers were paying him, so he signed with New York. Every team wants to be the best, and to be the best you have the best players. If another team was wanted him bad enough they could of probably got him if they offered him more than what the Yankees offered him. So I think that it is somewhat a waste of money but it's all about the pay for the players and all about being the best for the teams.

Should there be a limit to how much professional athletes are paid each year??