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judydongxueni

A14. “The most successful structure for any business is one that is clearly hierarchical with clearly defined roles for all levels of employee.”
Discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the opinion stated above. Support your views with reasons and/or examples from your own experience, observations, or reading.

1.明确的分层可以让每个人发挥自己的专长各尽所能.
2.明确分层可以让有全面协调能力的人处于领导地位.在下级出现分歧时候可以由这个领导者作出团队的决定.而其他形式的组织则会在意见不合时难以为继
3.诚然,让每个人都到可以发挥专长的工作岗位上是很困难的.而真正具有统筹能力的人是否可以出任领导的职位也不是定数.但相比较分层结构的优点毫无疑问我们应该投入精力和时间把分层结构的优越性发挥到极至.

brace

1。 The most successful structure for any business 本身就没法定义。 按照什么来算呢？ 盈利么？股息么？

2。 很多新兴的企业并非依靠clearly hierarchical with clearly defined roles 来争得优势的。 是靠创新和人才， 以及灵活的管理方式。

3。 社会变化太大太快， 很多很多东西是没法用clearly hierarchical with clearly defined roles  来管理的。

judydongxueni

呵呵,看了之后我也想从反面写了

zf7615

necessary to have hierarchy and role defined. but employee's knowledge shouldn't be strictly limitted to his role.

1. with role strictly defined, employee doens't have the big picture, which is necessary to excel in his own role, blabla...

2. it doesn't give employee enough development opportunity. attrition will be high and hurt the organization. blabla...

3. it hurts organization's ability to adopt to change when necessary. e.g. many company structure itself by the structure of their product, innovation that may require a completely new product structure won't be easy in such hierarchy.

4. employer need to strike a careful balance.....

[此贴子已经被作者于2005-8-16 5:49:19编辑过]

liujiantyxf

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crystalwansui

First, hierarchical structure could detail the work process and specific the responsibility and duty of each employee.

Second, hierarchical structure is facility to manage and control the organization.

Last but not least, some people state that flat structure also could lead to make a successful structure. It is may be true sometimes, however, any of a structure must possess a hierarchical system as an integration.

但是每段的具体内容不好写，例子也不好举，谁能想想能举个什么例子？我觉得brace 说的几条好像很好发挥。

Symbol

I just read all of your comments and combined those together. can anyone give me some advices as to how to make my essay more logically sound? Thanks

The issue of whether a business should adapt a clearly hierarchical structure with clearly defined roles for all levels of employee is a complex one. To some extent, I agree that a clearly hierarchical structure benefits a business in the way it can improve productivity through division of labor. On the other hand, the determining factors contributing to a business’s success are far more than just a structure. In the final analysis, I think what structure a business should adapt depends on the nature of business.

To begin with, it is sagacious to admit in some circumstances a hierarchical structure enhances productivity. With clearly defined roles for all level of employee, everyone in the organization knows his or her responsibility and will be trained specialized in the area over time. This division of labor leads to the improvement of productivity. For instance, in the 19^th century, division of labor was one of the most important factors contributing to the leaps and bounds of the profit increase during industry revolution. Moreover, it consequently makes an management job easier because of the clear and narrow ranged job description for employees and the clear reporting mechanism.

However, society has changed tremendously in the 21^st century, many practices that were applicable to the “good old times” are not practical for many new businesses any more. In addition, success of a business is now more determined by excellent work force, innovation and fine management team. To cope with questions raised by the new era, such as volatile market demand, requirement of high skill workers, businesses have to acquire employees with a broader base knowledge. Take Japanese car manufacture in the United States for example, its resources and technology are no better than American’s, however, because it trains its employees in different areas of jobs and even the machine it uses can manufacture different parts of a car, to improve flexibility. Japanese car manufacture is considered more superior than American’s. Admittedly, some businesses are still blessed by division of labor, such as socks manufacture in china, every employee has specified roles in a product line.

In conclusion, the issue of adopting hierarchical structure or not should really depends on the nature of business and where the business stands in the level of its development. Even though hierarchical structure might prove to be efficient in some contexts, it is by no means universally applicable to every single situation, even less its drawbacks such as lack of promotion opportunity, decreased creativity level and the losing sight of whole picture.

gumpt007

以下是引用brace在2005-6-1 0:02:00的发言：

1。 The most successful structure for any business 本身就没法定义。 按照什么来算呢？ 盈利么？股息么？

2。 很多新兴的企业并非依靠clearly hierarchical with clearly defined roles 来争得优势的。 是靠创新和人才， 以及灵活的管理方式。

3。 社会变化太大太快， 很多很多东西是没法用clearly hierarchical with clearly defined roles  来管理的。

1.  但是需要小心对于successful定义之后，肯能会打乱原本的思路，所以我觉得应该按照二楼的思路先给自己定一个最最熟悉的定义，比如把successful定义在财务方面或者企业凝聚力方面，再按照这个展开

2.将两种方式的结构进行优劣分析，根据自己的喜好写出一个偏好的，重点写，（可分两段）

3.然后指出真正好的结构是结合了各种结构的精华，不能一概而论。然后指出现在的社会变化的趋势，忘扁平化结构靠。

请大家指教！！