This presentation highlights characteristics in design and structure that demonstrate the pros of small organizations over large organizations. The small org has numerous advantages over large organizations. In examining the impact Evergreen is able to maintain as well as positively affect social justice and community engagement, we see that large infrastructure is unnecessary to ensure high-quality service delivery and profitability. We are pro small org as these orgs have greater potential to perform at high levels of employee, stakeholder, and client engagement and satisfaction with fewer resources (Allen, n.d.). Taylor and I thank you for your time and welcome your feedback.
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Taylor Schut and Margaritta Fultz
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Hello, everyone.
My name is Taylor Margarita and I are here today
to provide our argument for small organizations.
We will use a prime case example to illustrate the
real life application of a Siris of organizational design elements
that, when implemented, provide small organizations and advantage over large
organizations. Evergreen Dev.
Co. Is a small organization founded over 45 years ago
in Phoenix, Arizona, by Bruce Pomeroy and Andrew Skipper.
Have a Green recently landed themselves on Forbes 2019 list
of the best small companies.
Both Forbes and ever green itself attribute their success to
a number of design elements.
Evergreen has built a team of 56 employees, which they
have found is just big enough to allow them to
achieve economies of scale, but small enough that they're able
to function with speed and flexibility.
Forbes noted that Evergreen creates strong intra organizational relationships by
putting policies in place that allow and encourage employees to
invest alongside the organization on any new projects.
Evergreen prides itself on building a culture that focuses on
DIA logic communication, where management focuses on hearing the needs
of their employees, both related to personal, professional and family
needs. Evergreen demonstrates the advantage small businesses have when they
position themselves within a variety of formalized partnerships.
Evergreen also has a foundation where their mission is to
better not only themselves but also their communities and of
communities abroad.
Evergreen build strong roots within their communities by investing in
a number of social justice initiatives.
Thes points exemplified just a few of the design elements
that give Evergreen their competitive advantage.
Margarita and I will demonstrate in the coming slides how
these design elements give small organizations a competitive advantage over
large organizations.
Small organizations have an advantage over a large organizations when
it comes to agility, their ability to rapidly respond to
market changes.
Harvard Business Review noted that large organizations are no longer
able to rest solely on their position and scale as
a sustainable source for competitive advantage.
Instead, they're seeing a trend towards flexibility as the new
means for obtaining a competitive advantage.
Small organizations are able to be more flexible due to
fewer layers.
This allows problems and consumer demands to make it from
the front line employees to the owners quicker.
The fewer layers within the organization also allows owners to
distribute decisions throughout the organization faster.
As a small team, Evergreen has focused on building up
efficient procedures that can apply to a variety of unique
projects. This allows them to adapt to whatever the development
need is at any given time.
Evergreens focused on developing their service in a way that
allows them to apply it to a variety of projects
is exactly what Harvard Business Review indicates.
As small organizations advantage over large organizations, small organizations, small
organizations are often less worried about doing one thing really
well and instead can focus on the ability to be
really good at adapting to new things.
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Another compelling reason Taylor and I are pro small organization
is the relative ease with which intra organizational relationships are
formed and maintained between the organization's leadership team and employee
stakeholders. With small arcs, there is less dynamic space between
the leadership and the stakeholders.
This is an advantage over large organizations where there is
increased dynamic space between the leadership team, stakeholders and investors
in large orcs.
It's difficulty toe hold the organization accountable for profits and
their return on investment, as there are numerous structural layers
for the stakeholders to navigate within small org's employee stakeholders
can have a much higher level of confidence in their
investment when they have a relationship with the owners and
leadership team and are able to build relationships on a
foundation as committed and engaged employees.
Case in point.
The ever grade organization we're using as one of our
exemplary models or a successful small organization, is comprised of
a team of Onley 50 for employee stakeholders.
These stakeholders represent the internal formalized relationship with the CEO
within a small organization.
They are the owner stakeholders who are fully vested financially
and psychologically.
Psychologically, Thio annually produce multimillion dollar profits for their internal
and external partners.
This brings me to the next advantage small organizations have
over the large organization.
Design and structure, communication, internal communications and external communications of
small organizations are organic and less mechanistic.
Due to the small or design and structure.
Small organization communication is efficient, transparent and offers a local
communication dynamic not seen in most large organizations.
Efficient communication is an invaluable asset and serves as a
means for the leadership team, internal and external partners to
dialogue and plan appropriately another strong component to communication with
small Orcs versus Large Factor org's is round table discussions
where the employees air able to genuinely engage with discussions
pertaining to the organization's strategic plan, direction and strategic actions.
Organic communication is not always possible with large organizations, where
the mechanistic structure requires a large mass of individuals to
communicate with their respective directors to communicate ideas, information and
messages that are critical to the success of the organization
gets siloed with small org's roundtable discussions, frame and exchange
of messages that can be trusted as those involved are
listening as well as being heard.
DIA Logic communication enable small organizations to leverage transparency and
the efficient communication to network and build complimentary organizational Enter
organizational partners.
As Margarita mentioned, small organizations exploit their ability to use
organic communication as a means to build both internal as
well as external partnerships.
A number of small companies on Forbes list of 2019
best small companies capitalized on their ability to build strong
inter organizational relationships.
These smaller companies specialized in one service or product and
were able to remain small by positioning themselves in formalized
partnerships that allowed them to expand their reach without expanding
their businesses.
These companies realized the very thing Druckman at all described
cooperation in both political and economic ventures is often better
than independent action.
Leo and Yang conducted a study that concluded that small
businesses who placed themselves in inter firm networks allowed themselves
not only to solve the problem of scarce resources but
also position themselves to gain more knowledge about technological developments,
customer preferences and competitors strategies.
Evergreen attributes much of its success to its people.
They acknowledge that without partnerships with big brands such as
McDonald's or Starbucks, they would not be in the position
they're in today.
But it is not only their partnerships with customers they
attribute their success to, but also their variety of joint
ventures. Evergreen is not only representative of outstanding inter organizational
partnerships and networking, but their high level of community engagement
and social justice initiatives are financially supported and endowed by
their foundation and donors.
On this slide, you can see a few off both
ongoing and annual philanthropic endeavors that meet some of the
pressing needs of the community, Much like the other small
organizations considered small giants, Evergreen has a sizable footprint even
among its peers.
They're addressing food and security, Foster care, education and even
grieving Children.
Taylor and I have made points on the various organizational
characteristics and design and structure that result in our being
pro small organizations.
The small ORC has numerous advantages over large organizations.
In examining the impact Evergreen is able to maintain as
well as positively affect social justice and community engagement, we
see that large infrastructure is unnecessary to ensure high quality
service, delivery and profitability.
We are pro small, or GE, as they have greater
potential to perform at high levels of employee stakeholder and
client engagement and satisfaction with fewer Resource is Taylor and
I thank you for your time and welcome your feedback