Structuring Starbucks

Structuring Starbucks

1.What types of departmentalization are beinf used?

2. Do you think it’s a good idea to have a president for the U.S. division and for the other international divisions? What are the advantage of such an arrangement? Disadvantage?

Yes, it will be good idea to have a president for U.S division and international Divisions, because Starbucks its growths and will be easier to melt in local market. However, this will have some advantage and some disadvantages:

Advantages:

* Better Management to achieve good results.

* Division of responsibilities, which would affect the operations.

* Better co-ordination

* Local problems more efficiency because they are more familiar with the place developing situation

Disadvantages:

* the different presidents will have different ideas to solve some problems and has some conflict in decision making

* Lack of coordination can lower the standards of starbucks.

* Difficult to monitor standards country

3. What examples of the six organizational structural elements do you see discussed in the case? Describe.

* Departmentalization: it would be by geographic departmentalization .this helps all the activities performed in a region to be managed together and makes possible for the company. The zone offices oversee the regional operations and provide support in human resource management, financial management, training, and marketing management. Geographic departmentalization works because it is separated from day to day business and does not interfere with store process. This structure creates and improves the confidence of employees to achieve their performance goals.

* Number of employees: they are committed to investing in paths to opportunity through education, training and employment. They have online career center, zone offices, recruiting events, providing an equal job opportunity. The company creates the opportunity of promotion and advancement for all store partners. also, Starbucks uses a variety of methods to attract potential partners.

* Chain of command: The order in which authority and power in Starbucks is wielded and delegated from top management to every employee at every level of the organization.

* Cross-Functional teams: different functions are related to on another to produce better the product and service.

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