Cheat Sheet: Tackling 20 Mark Essays At A-level

Despite Warren East`s restructuring, Rolls-Royce still has a `tall` organisational structure. Two options for the future of Rolls-Royce are to remain as a tall structure or to change to a flat organisational structure.

Evaluate these two options and recommend which is most suitable for a business, such as Rolls-Royce.

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PLANNING

Context words:

Finance available Losing profit especially in supplying spare parts for old aircrafts, and corporate jet sales have declines sharply unlikely that they have a lot of cash to invest in a restructuring

Customers (in this context) large airlines they themselves work in a competitive industry, and are focussed on being cost efficient

Competitors modern, fuel efficient aircraft suppliers/engineers

USP- prestigious brand

Market/Industry highly skilled workforce, and competitive with regards to talent

Objective become more cost and time efficient in order to deliver products to customers

Writing Frame (with some exemplars/scaffolding)

Paragraph 1: Define the two options tall structures vs flat structures. Exemplar:

A tall structure is where there are more layers with a smaller span of control. Whereas a flat structure has fewer layers of hierarchy and a wider span of control.

Paragraph 2: Advantage of remaining as a tall structure.

• One advantage of remaining as a tall structure is
• This means that
• As a result
• *Link back to how they can become more cost/time effective*

One advantage of remaining as a tall structure is that the employees within the business have clear roles. This will benefit the business because they have 54,000 employees, so a hierarchy will mean that individuals know who they are reporting to, and who is responsible for what. This is important for Rolls Royce as their workforce are highly skilled in specific parts of engineering. As a result of a rigid, tall hierarchy, there will be clear lines of communication which should allow for quicker decision making which was a problem that Warren East was trying to solve previously.

Paragraph 3: Advantage of moving towards a flat structure

• One advantage of restructuring towards a flat structure
• This means that
• As a result
• *Link back to how they can become more cost/time effective*

Paragraph 4: Disadvantages of a tall structure

• One limitation of proceeding with a tall structure is
• This means that
• As a result
• *Link back to how they can become more cost/time effective*

Paragraph 5: Disadvantages of a flat structure

• One limitation of proceeding with a tall structure is
• This means that
• As a result
• *Link back to how they can become more cost/time effective*

Paragraph 6: Overall recommendation

• Overall, I would recommend that RR move forwards with
• Because
• This is despite the fact that
• Because..

Paragraph 7: Conclusion using MOPS

• The recommendation may be best in the short/long term because..
• However
• This means that, in the short/long term it would be more beneficial to use a structure
• Because
• However, this will depend on