Odilis Asilis, Pattie Randle,LeTesia Poole and Melissa Sugars
University of Phoenix
MGT/230 Management Theory & Practice
Monday, October 24th, 2011
Professor Sylvia Ramirez-Cahan
Team D Week 3 Reflection Summary
Odilis Asilis For Week 3 I have had the opportunity to learn in detail how company’s functions determine the structure of its different departments due to the need of specialized tasks forces to achieve goals within the finance, marketing, sales human resources and other departments that need a specific structure to help achieve the company’s overall goal. I have learned that organizations benefit from these structures because they manage to bring together great people that share similar …show more content…
I found the material of this week’s reading to be very interesting because I can apply it to my personal life as well as future professional careers. The chapter that I found to be the most interesting was the most interesting was Chapter 10 because it goes into depth about the job duties and functions of an HR manager or specialist. Learning about all that goes into considering which applicants to choose to how much to pay is very interesting and I never really knew how complex the issue could be. For example, sometimes when I call to check on a job application the HR manager may state that the position will be filled internally (very discouraging to hear); however, now I see that they do so based on a number of reasons.
Pattie Randle
In the previous week I learned how the organization structure affects organizational functions. From what I have learned in the discussions of this class I can use some of these methods in my everyday life, because I work at a large company that holds different positions such as plant managers, plant supervisors, bookkeeping and human resources. I realize that it takes everyone in these positions to work together in order to have a well structure organizational. Organizational structure and organizational functions must work together to have an organized organization. In this week reading I also learned of the different organizational