ORGANIZING
ORGANIZING
Organizing
A process of ensuring healthy relationship among the department.
It is the process of arranging and allocating work, authority, and resources
among an organization’s members so that they can achieve organizational goal
Process of Organizing
Division of Work
This involves assigning different tasks to different people in the organization’s
different work units. Related to it is specialization, the process in which different
individuals and units perform different tasks.
Integration of Work
Delegation of Authority
Elements of Delegation:
- authority or the right to set officially or legally
- responsibility or the state of being answerable legally/morally for the
discharge of a duty
- accountability is to be liable to be called to explain.
Coordination of Work
Coordination refers to the procedures that connect the work activities of the
different work divisions/units of the firm in order to achieve its overall goal.
Advantages
1. It have clear lines of authority, with quicker decision making and better designation
of tasks to employees.
2. Staffs have well-defined roles and responsibilities, which reduces duty ambiguity
and encourages high production efficiency.
3.For employees who are seeking for a job promotion, there is a clear path to career
planning.
4. Employees are motivated to work hard to achieve a higher level.
Disadvantages
1. Due to the lack of autonomy, employees from the bottom may have lots of
limitations to share their constructive ideas or creative proposals.
2. It is likely to be rigid, which might hamper the company from accepting innovative
concepts and trap a company in outdated techniques.
3. Because of multiple layers of powers, it will take more time to respond a problem
or implementing decisions
Horizontal Organization Structure
q Refers to a selection of independent, usually single-function organizations that
work together to produce a product or service.
q Refers to the departmentalization of an organization into smaller work units as
tasks become increasingly varied and numerous.
Network structure
Line Departments – deal directly with the firm’s primary goods and services;
responsible for manufacturing, selling, and providing services to clients.
3 Approaches in Departmentalization