Question

What kind of organizational structure is the United Parcel Service in?

Answer 1

Let us break this question in parts for better understanding first let's see what United Parcel Service specializes into and then the organizational structure.

UNITED PARCEL SERVICE: is the world's largest package delivery company as well as a leader in the logistics and transportation services market Headquartered in Sandy Springs, Georgia, United States. UPS offer a broad range of services ranging in the package and freight delivery industry , logistics as well as transportation service and compete with many different local, regional, national, and international logistics providers.

If we look into the organizational structure of UPS then we can say it follows a Hierarchical Structure along with Departmentalization. In this type of structure, a proper hierarchy is being followed and there is a clear line of command. Here the grouping of employees is being done according to departments, Function , Product etc. Under this structure there is the Chairman, Chief Executive Officer , President, vice president, departmental managers, supervisors, employees and labourers who carry out the effective functioning of UPS.

The basic organizational structure is somewhat like as shown in the diagram below:

Every hierarchical structure is not the same there may be more people in chain of command or less. It is just a glimpse as to how hierarchical structure looks like.

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UPS is also somewhat structured like this with more departmentalization.It consists of president,vice president(sales and marketing,operations,finance,HR)General managers,HR's ,Executives,employees.