Organisational structure

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ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE

Each level in the organisational structure has authority over the level below it and the managing director has overall responsibility for the whole organisation. Scottish and Newcastle plc has a tall organisational structure, with the managing director at the top, he is responsible for the whole business and communicates company policy and makes sure it is carried out. The directors on the second level are responsible for making decisions affecting their function areas and communicating those decisions to the staff working in the function areas. These directors and the managing director are based at head office. Though Scottish and Newcastle has a tall organisational structure City Limits itself has a flat organisational structure with a few levels.

From the directors there are regional mangers these are in charge of the different business owned by Scottish and Newcastle in that particular area. They are responsible for carrying out or delegating the directors’ decisions. They pass information on to the managers of the different business; in this case the regional manager of City Limits (Rimmel Store) passes on the directors’ decision to City Limits manager. (John Hill)

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The business manager (City Limits manager) follows, his role is to organise his staff, to motivate them and ensure that the staff know what is going on in City Limits. He has a deputy manager who reports to him.

From the manager City Limits has department managers e.g. bowling manager, Gym manager, Arcade manager and the restaurants/bar manager. These have a number of staff below them working in their departments and are in charge of the day-day running of their departments at City Limits and work alongside administrative, production, sales representatives and promotions.  Some of the department managers ...

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