1. UNIVERSITYOF DHAKA
(DEPARTMENT OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS 5TH
BATCH)
Assignment on the
Organizational Structure
& Model of Coca Cola
Company
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2. Assignment on the Organizational Structure & Model of Coca Cola Company
Short overview of Coca Cola
Coca-Cola is a carbonated soft drink sold in stores, restaurants, and vending
machines all over the world. It was born in Atlanta, Georgia, on May 8,
1886 was originated as soda fountain beverage sold for five cents a glass.
Coca-cola was originally invented by John Pemberton. Coca-Cola was
bought out by businessman Asa Griggs Candler, whose marketing tactics led
Coke to its dominance of the world soft-drink market throughout the 20th
century. Coca-Cola currently offers more than 500 brands in over 200
countries or territories and serves over 1.7 billion servings each day. Today
it sells many kinds of beverages. At present Muhtar Kent is the CEO of this
multinational corporation. Their mission is, to refresh the world, to inspire
moments of optimism & happiness and to create value and make a
difference. The coca cola company emphasizes their activities on people,
partners, profit, planet & productivity. Their vision 2020 is to create a long
term destination for their business and provide themselves with a roadmap
for winning together with their bottling partners. A huge organization like
Coca-cola lives on some strict values, like leadership, collaboration,
integrity, passion, diversity & quality. As for marketing strategy they focus
on their customers, consumers and franchise partners. They observe the
market, possess a world view and execute in the market place everyday to
be the best at what they do. They also work efficiently and maintain their
resources with apt expertise. Thus they are upholding their huge profits
and publicity in each passing year.

3. Assignment on the Organizational Structure & Model of Coca Cola Company
Organizational structure of coca cola

4. Assignment on the Organizational Structure & Model of Coca Cola Company
As we can see in the chart the coca cola company’s structural design is similar to
the functional design of an organization which is also known as u form design. The
C.E.O is at the heart of the operating system of the company. Under him there are
a lot of sub ordinates who control the overall business activities of the company.
They control the financial, marketing, operations, human resource,
administration, R &D, audit etc departments of the organization. So as coca cola is
conducting its business with a functional approach we can say that it uses the u
from or functional design. When coca cola takes up a new project to manufacture
a new kind of product for their customer they tend to use the matrix design of the
organization. In this form there are several project managers who are responsible
for controlling the process of making a new product. The subordinates who work
under the different departments also work under the project managers. So the
subordinates of the coca cola company simultaneously work under the vice
president of the functional departments and the project managers. For example if
Coca Cola Company wants to manufacture a new beverage for its customer then
its project managers use their idea and with the help of the functional
departments and the sub ordinates produce a new product. Coca cola operates
mostly as a functional form of organization but they also use the matrix design
thus making its organizational design a hybrid design.

5. Assignment on the Organizational Structure & Model of Coca Cola Company
Organizational model of coca cola
The Coca-Cola Company realizes that it needs to be able to meet the ever
changing demands of its customers. The organization has two operating groups
called Bottling Investments and Corporate. There are also operating
Groups divided by different regions such as: Africa, Eurasia, European Union, Latin
America, North America, and Pacific. Each of these divisions is again divided into
geographic regions. By allowing decisions to be made on a more local level, the
organization can quickly respond to changing market demands, and higher-level
management can focus more on long-term planning. Certain divisions of the
company, such as finance, human resources, innovation, marketing, and strategy
and planning are centrally located within the corporate division of the company.
Some of these functions take place at lower levels in each of the regions of the
company; however, most decisions are made at the top of the hierarchy. For
example, in 2002 the decision to sponsor the World Cup was done at the
corporate level. Corporate headquarters, however, allowed the local divisions to
make the advertising decisions. When Neville Isdell took over as CEO and
chairmen of The Coca-Cola Company in 2004, he began to use more behavioral
mechanisms. In order to deal with organization’s extremely low growth rate,
Isdell used teams of top managers to create solutions to the organization’s most
pressing problems. Face-to-face meetings were held regularly at the local levels
so employees could remain informed. Besides the use of teams and meetings, the
intranet was overhauled to provide a source of real-time sharing of information. It
appears that the organization is striving for a hybrid structure, which allows them
to have advantages of both bureaucratic and behavioral model, while trying to
minimize the negative consequences of each. The strategic structural changes
that the organization has gone through in recent years have created a much
needed positive impact on the company. The organization is trying to create a
more innovative culture by pushing towards decentralization .So it can be clearly
said that The Coca-Cola Company’s model is a hybrid of both Bureaucratic and
behavioral models.