Andrew Mesa

OGL 481

Briefly restate your situation from Module 1 and your role.

I am preparing for bringing on 25 new-hires to help drive sales and filter through

customers. I am on a team of 5 people total, and I am the newest employee to the company that is

in the team.

Describe how the structure of the organization influenced the situation.

The structural frame of my company J.R. Capital is a very top-down model, and it has its

benefits and its negatives. I think that it is good, because we are given direct guidelines and

standards to be met, but it does force limitations to different projects. My team and I think that it

is important for us to be able to follow the necessary guidelines required to make the new team

possible. The structure of the organization allows our team to have a clear idea of what needs to

happen, and it allows us to have no downtime or confusion about the end product. The problem

with this is that we aren’t allowed to modify anything that we think should be changed.

Recommend how you would use structure for an alternative course of action regarding

your case.

I would rework the structure of the company to my team and I being able to give weekly

reports to our higher-ups, because it would allow us to have more control over the situation. I

think that having the guidelines and requirements that must be met is good, but it ties our feet

together when it comes to the rest of the project. We wanted to try to look into finding a feeder

system into hiring new graduates from ASU, and being able to go into a career fair, but our

executives only wanted us to work on the program for after we get the new-hires.
Reflect on what you would do or not do differently given what you have learned about this

frame.

There is not a lot that I would change about my current situation aside from what I have

said before, but I think that it is a pretty big thing that would be hypothetically changed. I also

think that if my team and I were given the freedom to make some of our own decisions and

report back to the executives later, it would open the window for a potential flaw which could set

back the project or cost the company money. Our project is already a risk in itself, because we

are adding more employees to the payroll with no guarantee of adding revenue, but our leaders

think that it will drive us sales and create new employees who will eventually move up in the

company.