The organizational structure and organizational culture of a firm are often interrelated. With any organization of your choice, examine what you believe to be their organizational structure and using all three levels of organizational culture to illustrate your points, draw links between the organizational culture and its organizational structure to illustrate how these two aspects of a firm can be intertwined.

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I would like to choose the company called "Coops," a Swiss firm dedicated to operating supermarkets in Switzerland and other parts of Central Europe.

Their organizational structure is almost flat, with a dominant matrix work relationship that allows the management and the workers to have more direct and open lines of communication. This kind of organizational structure helps to have a more strong interrelation with the corporative culture in that employees feel more comfortable to establish communication with the hierarchy, are confidente that their opinions and suggestions are going to be taken into consideration, and this organizational climate allows for permanent feedback. This concept strengthens the corporate culture because employees are happy in the workplace, makes them more efficient and productive, behaviors that benefit the company because it allows it to have better results. And more importantly, these happy employees reflect their attitude when they are serving the consumers.

a manufacturer of printed circuit boards uses exponential smoothing with trend to forecast monthly demand of its product. at the end of december, the company wishes to forecast sales for january. the estimate of trend through november has been 200 additional boards sold per month. average sales have been around 1000 units per month. the demand for december was 1100 units. the company uses α = 0.20 and β = 0.10. make a forecast including trend for the month of january.