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Assignment 1: UMED Organization Chart

OBJECTIVES

Apply your knowledge and skills acquired in the Visio course to produce a detailed Organization Chart.

Instructions: Read the synopsis below and use the accompanying chart to plan, design and produce a final detailed Organization chart based on the information provided.

Synopsis

Jeffrey McNeil is the President and CEO of UMED, a leading supplier of medical and surgical equipment and instruments. The recent merger with MedSoft industries who provides integrated software solutions to the medical and pharmaceutical industries has resulted in a full reorganization of the companys departments and services. The merger has resulted in combining of services and departments as well as the creation of new positions while removing redundancies.

Lisa Jones is the new VP of Sales for North America, Kevin Dawson retains his position of VP of sales for Europe, and Brad Lee has been promoted to VP Of sales for Asia. All sales VP report directly to the President of the company. Each VP of sales has two Sales Account managers reporting in to them.

Norman Sims is the VP of Operations and he looks after the Marketing, Purchasing, Shipping and the Human Resources departments. Zak Simmons is the director of the Marketing department and looks after a team of 6 graphic designers and marketing specialists.

Louise Green is the director of Human resources. She has a staff of 4 middle managers reporting directly to her.

Albert Grier is the director of purchasing also reports to Norman Sims. Albert has a staff of 5 Purchasing clerks 4 which are currently in place and the fifth one is vacant pending future hire. Peter Hobbs is the director of the shipping and logistics department. Peter manages 3 shipping and logistics coordinators to handle all of the companys shipping tasks.

Maurice Bell is the Director of Information Technology services. He manages a team of 6 individuals in his department. Maurice also reports to Norman Sims.

The new VP of Finance, Daniel Rutkowski reports in to Frank Beltran the Chief Financial officer who reports directly to Jeffrey McNeil. Daniel Rutkowski also has a dotted line relationship to Jeffrey McNeil as well. Mr Rutkowksi is responsible for the entire financial department namely the Accounts Payable and the Accounts Receivable departments