Building the Best Employees

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Introduction

According to Talukdar (2013), employees’ selection is the primary determinate of the organization success. While in most cases organizations prefer employees with a track record of performance, it is clear that newbies in employment can bring about an outstanding mix of new skills. Selecting an employee has been argued as the most critical phase of organization’s services and processes as it is in this particular instance when the organization strategic goal is made futile or fructified. The case presented by Mullin (2005), looks closely at the various ways through which the “best” employee can contribute to the organization's success. This essay will focus on elaborating different approaches to the organization design, implication of the organizational structure and benefits associated with employees’ motivation within the case.

Approaches to organizational design and the applications of the various organizational structures and levels of authority.

Mullin (2005) presents an argument that most of the traditional organizational designs are not working in different organizations. With no doubts, organizations operating in today’s business environment are faced with a hard task of keeping up with the intense competition. For this reason, according to Talukdar (2013), many organizations have been forced to abandon the brick and mortar designs and adopt a model that focuses more on the process and people rather than output and numbers. Mullin (2005) presents an example of a current organization design for Best Buy Company that is looking to allow half of about 3,500 of its employees to work in various branches of their choice. On this note, organization structure looks at the organizational hierarchic in relations to work reporting. In a centralized organization structure, all the employees report to one managing director limiting their exercise of creativity and innovation. On the hand, a decentralized organizational structure allows the employees to have a more flexible environment in making decision on some functions

Benefits and motivations mentioned in the article and company’s impact on employee motivation, morale, and organizational culture.

Mullin (2005) has presented an example of Costco Company that believes that the best way to the employees’ heart...