Organizational Structures: Simple, Functional, Divisional
Simple Structure
- Small and very narrow product line
- Highly informal information flow
- Owner-manager/top executive makes most of the decisions
- Staff serves as an extension of the owner
- Coordination of tasks by direct supervision
Advantages:
- Decision making is very centralized
- Few rules and regulations may foster creativity
- Owner-manager is involved in all stages of business
Disadvantages:
- Informality may lead to problems
- Employees may not clearly understand their responsibilities, leading to conflict and confusion
- Lack
Social Inclusion Strategies for People with Disabilities in Europe
These strategies address the general population and people with disabilities specifically. The Council of Europe focuses on several areas, including dependency:
- Mainstreaming: This concept, often used in gender equality policies, involves cross-disciplinary partnerships and integrating various European organizations across health, migration, disability, and gender equality.
- Continued development of social cohesion through seminars, expert panels, and socio-demographic studies to address social trends.
Insurance Marketing Systems: Agency, Non-Agency, Direct
Insurance Marketing Systems
Types of Marketing Systems:
- Agency Building System: A system where an insurer builds its own agency by recruiting, financing, training, and supervising new agents.
- New agents represent the insurer.
- Types:
- General Agency System: The general agent is an independent contractor representing only one insurer.
– In charge of a territory and responsible for recruiting, training, and motivating new agents.
– Receives a commission based on the amount of business produced.
Managerial
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Economic Evolution During the Franco Era
This simple line graph illustrates the evolution of an economic indicator, GDP per capita, in Spain from 1939 to 1973, encompassing most of the Franco dictatorship. GDP per capita represents the value of the production of goods and services in relation to the number of inhabitants. The horizontal axis displays the years, in two-year increments, while the vertical axis represents GDP per capita in 1980 pesetas, at intervals of 50,000.
The graph’s general trend
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**TMA 4: Business Organization**
**Business Organization**
Business organization consists in establishing rules and principles to coordinate the available means in order to reach one or more objectives with minimum effort and cost.
**Types of Organization**
**Informal Organization**
This is formed by a group of employees who have relationships based on common interests, hobbies, concerns, etc. For the proper functioning of the organization, it is important that both the company and its human team are
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Culture, Ideology, Mentality, and Civilization in Sports
Culture: An individual depends largely on their relationship with others. They are part of a group and are conditioned by it (way of thinking, feeling, etc.). All of this, in social science, is culture.
Sports Civilization: The most important cultural productions are the rules of competition and the game (the same everywhere), large stadiums, equipment, clothing regulations, etc. These endure over time for future civilizations.
Ideology: Cultural
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