Is FFH centralized or decentralized?
HRMT 300 Organizational Behaviour F15
Professor: Victor Iyekekpolor viyekekp@my.centennialcollege.ca
Structure and Culture 7.5% of final grade
Due: Week 12
This assignment must be completed in teams of no less than three people but a maximum of five team members is acceptable.
Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited (Ticker Symbol: FFH) is a Toronto-based financial services holding company whose CEO is PremWatsa.
You must provide references for your research.
1. Is FFH centralized or decentralized? Provide evidence to support your answer.
2. Based on your answer to Question 1, is there a narrow or wide span of control at the holding company? Explain why with evidence to support your answer.
3. Does FFH employ a functional, divisional, or matrix structure? Explain your answer and provide evidence to support it.
4. How would you describe the culture at FFH? Hint: This requires research.
5. Consider the four ways of maintaining/perpetuating organizational culture. Identify one of these that you believe FFH uses and provide evidence to support your answer.
Your responses should be in formal sentence/paragraph structure with correct spelling and grammar. Point form responses are not acceptable. Assignments are graded on quality, not length.
Grading
All questions will be graded using the rubric below and then a mark out of 25, and 5 marks will be assigned for Spelling, Grammar, Format, Neatness, Overall readability, Research
Grading Rubric
| Level 5 | Level 4 | Level 3 | Level 2 | Level 1 | Level 0 |
| Insightful with excellent critical thinking
Excellent research with explicit examples and proof to support position taken Understanding of OB principles is clearly shown |
Good critical thinking evident
Some evidence from articles and/or research present to support position taken Reasonable understanding of OB principles is shown |
Some research and critical thinking shown
May lack evidence from sources to support position taken Incomplete or incorrect understanding of OB principles is shown |
Answer is somewhat specific but lacks proof from sources
Clear evidence of critical thinking may be lacking Incomplete or incorrect understanding of OB principles is shown |
Vague, general, non-specific answer with little research or critical thinking
Understanding of OB principles is not evident |
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