Business studies 3.4
GCSE business studies topic 3.4
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- Business studies 3.4
- Organisional structure
- Flat structure
- Where there are no middle management, apart from the boss/es, everyone else is the same
- Advantages
- Better communication as everyone gets the same message by one/two central figures
- Everyone knows what they and everyone else are doing
- So higher productivity
- Everyone knows what they and everyone else are doing
- Better communication as everyone gets the same message by one/two central figures
- Dis-advantages
- Less chances of promotion
- So the staff are less motivated
- Productivity goes down
- So the staff are less motivated
- Workers could feel that they are not being represented fairly when desicions are being made
- More risk of high staff turnover
- This could lead to a bad reputation for the company
- More recruitment costs
- More risk of high staff turnover
- Less chances of promotion
- Advantages
- Where there are no middle management, apart from the boss/es, everyone else is the same
- Tall structure
- There are different layers of management
- Advantages
- There are chances of promotion
- So the workers will be more motivated and want to work harder as they want the promotion and they know they are in competition with the others
- So the productivity could potentially be higher as the staff being more motvated means that they will make more
- So the workers will be more motivated and want to work harder as they want the promotion and they know they are in competition with the others
- The business can have input from differnt departments as different managers can come together and talk about things that are needed.
- So employees feel that they are being included in decisions and so they are happier at the company
- So less staff turnover
- So the rectruitment costs are low
- So less staff turnover
- So employees feel that they are being included in decisions and so they are happier at the company
- There are chances of promotion
- Dis-advantages
- More likely to bad communication as there are many layers to get through and so its like chinese whispers (Chain of command could be high)
- Technology is needed for efficient communication, but it isn't reliable and could fail anytime
- More likely to bad communication as there are many layers to get through and so its like chinese whispers (Chain of command could be high)
- Advantages
- There are different layers of management
- Flat structure
- Motivation
- Maslows Hierarchy of needs
- LOVE AND BELONGING
- Intimate relationships, friends
- Getting on with colleagues, team work exercise days, staff parties
- SELF-ESTEEM
- Prestige, feeling of accomplishment
- Praise, encouragement, promotion, raise, employee of the month
- SAFETY
- Security: Job and Health
- Health and Safety policies, Contracts
- SELF-ACTUALISATION
- Achieving ones potential
- Charity days, sabbaticals, training and development
- PHYSIOLOGICAL
- Food, Water, Warmth, Rest
- Minimum wage, Maximum hours, lunch break
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- It is cumulative. It has to go up the pyramid. If you achieve love and belongingness, you will still have to achieve safety and physiological
- LOVE AND BELONGING
- Maslows Hierarchy of needs
- Renumeration
- Salaries
- Yearly payments in monthly installments
- Less productivity
- Yearly payments in monthly installments
- Wages
- Pay per hour/day
- more productivity
- Pay per hour/day
- Commission
- more productivity
- Earnings determined by how much they sell
- Overtime
- paid extra to work additional hours
- Fringe benefits
- e.g company cars, free gym membership
- Salaries
- Organisional structure
- So less staff turnover
- So the rectruitment costs are low
- Wages
- Pay per hour/day
- Pay per hour/day
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