Running Head: Team Management 1
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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