Part 1:
Read the article provided as a PDF document and answer the following questions:
Identify the types of organizational structures you learned about in this activity that are utilized by Coca-Cola.
Explain in detail.
1. Why do they use each of these organizational structures and how do they benefit the corporation?
2. How do the organizational structures used by Coca-3. Cola help support their business goals?
4. How do Coca-Cola’s organizational structures encourage teamwork and collaboration?
Part 2:
Read the summary of a large corporation
“Mobiletec is a large technology company that makes mobile devices for business and personal use. They
have a consumer and business division. They have various product lines, including mobile phones, tablets,
fitness tracking wristbands, vehicle touch screens, among others. They have a substantial research and
development department, and are constantly developing new and innovative products for both business and
personal use. The company operates in 20 countries around the world, and has offices in each location. The
head office is located in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. The corporation currently employs 3,800 people across
many different departments, including marketing, finance, sales, research and development, human resources,
customer service, and product education.”
Respond to the following questions in great detail. Your goal is to identify what type of organizational structure
will work best for different departments (marketing, finance, sales, research and development, human
resources, customer service, product education).
1. What organizational structure do you feel will work best for this company? Explain in detail.
2. Identify all the potential benefits that this type of organizational structure will bring to Mobiletec.
3. Select three other organizational structures you learned about in this activity and explain why each will not
be a suitable choice for Mobiletec.
4. Using the word processing drawing/shape tools, draw a rough picture of what the organization structure
might look like, based on your answer to question (1).
The company’s operations reach over 200 countries worldwide, with six geographic operating segments. Coca-Cola’s head office is responsible for providing the company with an overall direction and support to the regional structure. The company’s Executive Committee makes key strategic decisions for the company.Coca-Cola is “Tall” in terms of organizational complexity. Coca-Cola is controlled through a vertical hierarchy, with decision-making authority residing with the company’s upper management. Daily and routine decisions are made by the line managers at the middle level.
Coca-Cola has more than 700,000 system employees, including their bottling partners.
s regarding environmental issues as a threat but this do by a referent object in a specific social, political, linguistic structure. (Stritzel, 2007) The vague conceptualisation of the specific referent object as mentioned by the Copenhagen School – need the post-structural position created by the second generation of securitisation scholars where they stress the importance of the role the audience play along with setting the socio-political environment. (Salter, 2008) The purpose of this essay was to assess critically the strengths and weaknesses of the securitisation theory. After discussing the concept of the securitisation theory as conceptualised by the Copenhagen School, the essay went on to discuss how the theory was developed by second generation of securitization scholars by focusing on “what conditions the social content and meaning of security produced threats.” (Balzacq, 2010) The essay then went on to discuss the stance the Aberystwyth School had on the voice of the audience and finally, the idea of environmental securitisation was discussed. It can be argued that security may not be a negative practice, which as discussed above involves the use of hard power but instead the emancipation from the “relative objectivism” affecting both traditional stance on security and the Copenhagen School work. Therefore, it can be said that the concept of security can be revised to provide a unified position on security. In regard to the securitisation of environmental degradation, environmental issues can be tackled rather than those issues being exploited politically. This essay has provided a range of strength and weaknesses to the Securitisation theory.