Fundamentals of Management 6th Edition by Ricky Griffin

Exercise 17

Exercise Overview
Conceptual skills require you to think in the abstract. In this exercise, you'll use your conceptual skills in analyzing organizational structure.
Exercise Background
Looking at its organization chart allows you to understand a company's structure, including its distribution of authority, its divisional breakdown, its levels of hierarchy, and its reporting relationships. The reverse is also true: When you understand the elements of a company's structure, you can draw up an organization chart to reflect it. In this exercise, that's just what you'll do: You'll use the Internet to research a firm's structure and then draw an appropriate organization chart.
Exercise Task
Share your results with another group or with the class as a whole. Be prepared to explain and justify the decisions that you made in determining the firm's structure.