Course: BHRM9440: Organizational Design

Organization to be analyzed: Toyota

Part One- Comparing Organizational Ecosys- tems and Inter-Organizational Relationships Describe relationships with other companies in your industry. Identify three to five other organizations that do work like yours. Research one or two of these organizations. Review the following prompts in the Analysis section and then complete your research using multiple methods, including your own observations, asking others, and/or conducting website research. Analysis: For these same organizations, summarize your research findings an- swer the following questions: 1. What organizational design choices did the organization(s) make in terms of vertical integration and geographical scope? 2. How do these choices impact how the organization views key com- petitors? 3. How do these choices affect the affiliations the organization has in terms of cooperation and competition? 4. Given these design choices, what do you believe to be the core com- petencies of each organization? 5. Consider how they've made different choices and might compete or cooperate with different entities as a result. Explain why you think this might be so. For example, a company may have been acquired