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. HANDS-OFF MANAGEMENT AT DOVER CORPORATION 2. 1) Most billion-dollar conglomerates have a staff of atleast several hundred employees at headquarters.Why? The central authority in the headquarter does the most of the strategic and operational planning of the organization and directions and instructions are circulated from the headquarters according to the planning. Most of the companies follow the hierarchy. To diversify the workforce. 3. 2) Is Dovers operation undermanaged? Explain. No, Dovers operation is not undermanaged.1. because the secret of Dovers success is its unusual organization design.2. Even with less staff they could generate sales effectively. 4. 3) Describe Dovers organization structure. What typesof design is management using?The company has a horizontal differentiation in its organizational structure .The company has 41 subsidiaries which are divided into five groups each with its own president and board of directors and each group consists of three to five people . There is less span of control.The company has a moderate centralized structure.It has high formalization and high complexity.The management is using the machine bureaucracy and the divisional structure designs. 5. 4) How has Dovers strategy influenced its structure?The companies do not have any household products but it produces organizational products . So, the company does not need to employee for promotion and advertisement.In the business level strategy each division of the company enjoy an unusual amount of autonomy which helps the core management to understand the ground realities of the demand and supply of the market. 6. 5) In a conglomerates, what functions, if any , are betterperformed at corporate headquarters rather than at theunit level? Explain.Strategic planning of the organization is better performed at the corporate headquarter rather than at the unit level of the organization.It gets

financial help, auditing and monitoring.Core management takes the companys strategic decisions and it does perform as a regulatory body in the organization.