ORGANIZATIONAL CASE STUDY

Organizational Case Study

Organizational Case Study

In this assignment I will read two case studies that were given to me, which one is 'Safe Mint UK Ltd' and the other is 'Docklands Solutions Ltd (DSL)'. I will provide a comparative analysis of them. I will be looking at them in three broad themes, which are:

• Teamwork and team working

• Organizational design and structure

• Organizational culture

I will be focusing on how the two organizations differ in the way they operate and the way in which they are managed. Both organizations are very different from each other and how they function, they are also different from the way members of staff experience their work.

Safe Mint UK LTD was founded in 1902 by Samuel Mint. The organization is a manufacturer of steel shipping containers for private and commercial use. Samson Mint is the new owner of Safe Mint UK LTD, the grandson of the founder, Mr Mint. Samson Mint is the chief executive and owns up to 70% of the business share.

Safe Mint UK LTD trade on a worldwide basis and have agreements with over 30 terminals that are used to store empty or damaged containers.

Docklands Solutions LTD was founded in 1997 by Tony Adabayo with 5 of his colleagues all of whom he's worked with before for a large corporation. This organization specialises in computer software and security technologies. Docklands Solutions LTD is based in London Docklands. They also have offices in Glasgow, Dublin, and Lagos.

Comparison Of Approaches To Team Work And Team Working

Teamwork is when a group of people who work together cooperatively and contributing their knowledge and skills to group and work to achieve goals and tasks. Team work is important because if there is no teamwork then an organization will fall apart. Teams need to work together to function as this brings company success and reaching aims and goals. All teams have a supervisor or a team leader where they are their to motivate them in their work

Teamwork is crucial within organizations if goals are to be met efficiently and effectively. A lack of teamwork results in poor productivity, wasted time through repeated and duplicated tasks and a poor working environment. The success of teamwork depends on building relationships and developing ways of working together. Especially in the aviation industry teamwork is highly important.

As it is obvious from the very setup philosophy for the team building, the teamwork revolves around the significance of Communication. Communication is such a basic requirement that whenever two persons get in contact, they will exchange information, consciously or unconsciously, verbal or non-verbal. The tricky thing is, that in a communication process there is a transmitter and a receiver, and the meaning of a communication is not intended of the transmitter, but the reaction it elicits at the receiver. Communication is an essential workplace skill as well. We spend 70% of our working lives in conversation - talking, on the telephone, in meetings and at conferences. This means that improving communication skills improves personal performance ...