Starbucks Case
sssssss How is the company structured?: Well T&T Supermarket organizational structure is basically based around its conventional and hard /discount divisions. Right now the company is focusing on capitalizing the opportunities in apparel, financial services and health and seeking to improve its offering to Canadas growing multicultural population.
T&T is Decentralized I would say because it is a bigger business which organizational structures often have several individuals responsible for calling the shots and managing the business well. I see T&T as more of a team atmosphere and contains different levels of making business decisions. The organizational structure at a single restaurant store for example (Tim Hortons) would have Head office on the top, Regional officers across north America, Distribution centers, and even a Tim Hortons university. In addition,, Research & Development, Training, Real Estate, Construction, Finance, Human Resources, IT, Legal, Franchising, Purchasing, and Marketing. Follow by their Department ( Departmentalized Functions) consists of Human resources, Corporate, Real Estate and Franchise Law, IT, Legal, Property Management, Purchasing, Guest Services, Corporate Communications etc. There are elements for organic organization for example T&T is more flexible, there staffs are individually trained to their full potential and are not just a specialized in one field there. They are also capable of handling other departments and tasks for their job. For example, doing samples, sweeping, doing stock, cashier, making food, hot food section, and bakery section etc. Each individual has thoroughly been trained and they are capable of anything. In addition, they throw food out that is expired and put back new fresh products on for consumers to buy. The workers there are very bright and the control by managers is unnecessary as the workers have already been trained and adapted to