Unit: MGT101 – Fundamentals of Management Submission Date: 1 st June 2018 before 5pm Weighting: This assignment will make up 25% of the total marks for this unit Instructions: 1. Students are required...

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Contemporary Organisational Structure/Designs and Effectiveness
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Company Background------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3
Matrix Organisational Structure----------------------------------------------------------- 5
Woolworth’s Organisational Structure--------------------------------------------------- 6
Business and the relation to Matrix Organisational Structure----------------------- 7
Disadvantages of the Matrix Structure of the organisation--------------------------- 11
Conclusion--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 13
References----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------14
Overview of the Organisation
is An Australian Organisation which specialises in grocery, Woolworths supermarket targets the supermarket section. One of the leading Australian firms that’s the Woolworth’s group is the parent organisation. One of the main criteria’s to determine the leadership is the revenue and the revenue model, according to which Woolworth’s is the second largest organisation in Australia. Westfarmers is a Perth based organisation which is a leader in this sector (Berning, A. (2014)) Liquor is one of the most important commodity in Australia thus many companies are trying to make it into a
and rather than a commodity. Woolworths is the largest takeaway owner of the liquor market in Australia. The retailer business is the way of handling the business in this sector. Woolworths is the largest owner of the poker machines in the continent.
Main Business: Liquor retailing, Supermarket stores, Pubs and Discount department stores, Hotels, are the major business of the Woolworths organisation.
Woolworths – In Australia, Countdown – in New Zealand are the name handles that the organisation has in the countries of Australia and New Zealand. BWS and Dan Murphy’s is the liquor retailing business which is ca
ied out in the Australian market. The Big-W is the name of the discount chain that is being run
$1.235 Billion losses in the financial year of 2016 was occu
ed by the company, a loss of $1.235 Billion in the financial year of 2016 and it is one of the biggest losses in the history of the company since its inception.
Danks Ltd was purchased in the previous 10 years, 2009 by Woolworths Ltd. And Lowes together. Home Timber and Hardware Brand were the names owned by The Danks. The Woolworths organisation entered into a joint venture with the Lowes which were one of North America’s largest home improvement chains and they together launched Masters Home Improvement, a new hardware
and. , the business lost $227.4 Million AUD and went into losses in the year 2015. The business of the Masters hardware & Home timber and hardware was decided to be wrapped up on January 18th(Berning, A. (2014)) Losses and more time to profit were 2 of the major reasons for the decision. On 24th August 2016, it was decided that all the stores would be shut down by the year end of 2016 & Metcash was supposed to purchase the Timber and Hardware Brand.
An organisation which overlooked the process “Australian Leisure & Hospitality Group” was 75% retained by Woolworths and more than 12600 poker machines were operated by it in the continent of Australia. These number of poker machines were the highest ever in Australia. $1.2 Billion each year revenue was expected to be bought by the poker machines
“Shopping Centres Australasia Property Group “ has a separate entity of 70 shopping centres and was placed by Woolworths organisation
in the year 2012
Matrix Organisational Structure
Matrix organisational structure is a structure where the people with skills that are similar are pooled together for the project work and the assignments. In the matrix organisational structure, there are more than 1 managers in the team which is refe
ed to as the solid line and the dotted line in the reports which refer to the traditional business organization(Ashkenas, R., Ulrich, D., Jick, T., & Ke
, S. (2015). )
One example of this is that the all the engineers are in one single team in...