Mgt 230 - Organizational Structure of the U. S. Navy

Organizational Structure of the U. S. Navy

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Organizational Structure of the U. S. Navy

The U. S. Navy is like a logical choice to use for my selected organization, as I spent more than half of my life in it. Through continual innovation, the U. S. Navy is able to embrace constantly changing technology, management initiatives and political rhetoric. While other organizations are not directly influenced by politics, the U. S. Navy must constantly manage a political force, private companies may not. The Navy’s organizational structure is built on decades of learning new practices and staying at the leading edge of management training curriculum. Through intensely investigated research, this paper will show how the U. S. Navy keeps up, and sometimes surpasses a couple of the most successful Fortune 500 civilian companies.

Two of the companies researched for this study are Walmart and the San Diego Padres. They were picked to show the diversity and size of organizations. While the U. S. Navy is an organization that is not for profit, the two other entities are to make money. Walmart is entirely built and runs to make a profit, and the San Diego Padres are an entertainment organization that makes profit. The U. S. Navy thoroughly understands its organizational structure and it conveys its structure and mission to its employees (Sailors). The U. S. Navy has always embraced that they can harness the power of the internet to conduct operations and business throughout the world. Walmart and the San Diego Padres use different tactics to communicate to their customers. While Walmart was founded as a one-stop shopping market, the Padres advertise as a hometown entity with an emphasis on entertainment.

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