Ashford MGT 330 Week 4 Assignment Team Management Activity and Reflection

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Team Management Activity and Reflection

MGT330 – Management for Organizations

09 oct 2019

Introduction

Amazon first launched in 1995 as a website that only sold books, founder Jeff Bezos had a

vision for the company’s explosive growth and e-commerce domination (Hartmans – 2017). As a

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newly promoted manager with Amazon I will be in charge of one of their new plant, where I will

oversee a team of 10 Supervisor and 90 packers. As a manager I will be managing the planning,

organizing, staffing, leading and control of the new plant so we can have a successful business

and help the grown of the company.

Planning

As a new manager, my plan to build a team and an effective culture, the first thing I would

do is meeting with the supervisors to talk and listen to their ideas on what we should improve in

the plant. After meeting with the supervisor I would create a survey so that employees can

express their ideas, give their comments and can say what they expect from the company so that

as a manager I can understand what they expect from me and so I will be able to create a plan to

build a positive team culture.

Organizing

Based on the information from a few sources I can say that the present structure Amazon is

using seems to be working. Evaluations conducted, exhibit that in the year of 2016, 43% of all

online retail sales in the US went through Amazon. Placing Amazons’ market value of USD

355.9 billion in a higher position than the grand total of market capitalizations of Walmart,

Target, Best Buy, Nordstrom, Kohl’s, JCPenney, Sears, and Macy’s. Taking this information

into account, I would only suggest amazon to continue to be flexible and continue to accept

changes throughout the years.

The Functional Organization structure I believe will be the one I would use, because amazon

is a company that sells all kinds of products. Also, since the company is based of online sells to

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