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This 15 page paper looks at FedEx, the logistics company and assesses the firm from four different perspectives; the bureaucratic perspective, the contingency perspective, the cultural perspective and the technological perspective. Looking at the way it operates and the way it competes. The bibliography cites 8 sources.
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Express, FedEx Ground, FedEx Freight, FedEx Office, FedEx Custom Critical, FedEx Trade Networks and FedEx Services (Fedex, 2009). From humble beginnings in with operations starting on the 17th of April
1973 following incorporation in June 1971, the firm has grown at a rapid rate, to a firm that has the ability to carry in excess of 26.5 million pounds in
any 24-hour period with the largest dedicated cargo fleet in the world which covers more than 2.5 million miles every day landing in 210 countries (FedEx, 2009). This has been
achieved as a result of the way that the firm is managed, organized and the resource utilized. To assess the firm it may be examined from a number of different
perspectives, in this paper FedEx will be examined from the bureaucratic perspective, the contingency perspective, the cultural perspective and the technological perspective. 2. Bureaucratic Perspective
To consider FedEx from this perspective the perspective itself needs not be considered and the organization assessed against that model. The bureaucratic model has a traditional structure,
there is a strict hierarchal power structure and power is delegated from the top of the hierarchy downwards with different levels of authority and an important role for policies and
rules. In complex organisations the power may need to be spread over the organisation, however, even where this occurs there is still the hierarchal structure and decisions are directed by
company policy. It may be argued that it is an out of date structure as unlike other areas of business it
has not changed as looking at this there is an inherent lack of trust placed in the employees, the power structure is put in placer to control the way they
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