I'm Michael Bush, Managing Director of Hoogle Engineering. I am pleased to welcome you here to our website and I'd like to tell you a little about the company and its organization. Hoogle Engineering
I'm Michael Bush, Managing Director of Hoogle Engineering. I am pleased to
welcome you here to our website and I'd like to tell you a little about the
company and its organization. Hoogle Engineering was set up in 1960. It was
divided into several departments at that time, such as the sales department,
marketing department, and production department. Lots of managers were employed
to manage it all.
Fortunately things are different now. Sixty people are employed by Hoogle and
communication between departments is considered to be one of the most important
aspects of the business. The market is global so we need to make contact with
customers worldwide, not just locally.
But in the old days we were all in different departments and never spoke to
each other. We had a tall structure. Traditionally we had people at the first
level on the shop floor, manufacturing products according to the instructions
which they were given. Then you had a supervisory level of people who supervised
them every day. Then you moved up to the middle management, who were doing the
tasks of getting new business, and then you had the senior management team, and
then you had the board, who decided the business strategy. So there were a lot
of levels in the company in the old days actually.
The structure today is that we form. teams within teams to place people who
can manufacture a product. Each team has members that can manufacture different
products. The actual teams now are self-managing, so we don't even have team
leaders. You've got the teams, and then you've got two people, only two people,
who are what you think of as management. This is generally called flat
structure.
21. Hoogle Engineering was set up in().
A. the nineteenth century
B. the twentieth century
C. the twenty first century
22. There are many different()of management in a tall structure.
A. kinds
B. levels
C. functions
23. People in a flat structure usually work in().
A. departments
B. families
C. teams
24. All of the following statements are true according to the passage EXCEPT
that().
A. communication in the company is becoming more and more important
B. the author thinks the two structures have the same functions
C. there are more individual responsibilities in the flat structure
25. The best title for the passage is().
A. Organization Structure in Hoogle Engineering
B. History of Hoogle Engineering
C. Success in Hoogle engineering