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Chapter 11: The Organizing Process

This document summarizes the key elements of organizing as the six building blocks of: designing jobs, grouping jobs, establishing reporting relationships, distributing authority, coordinating activities, and differentiating positions. It describes job design, specialization, and different approaches to jobs. It also outlines the bases for departmentalization including functional, product, customer, and location approaches. Finally, it discusses establishing reporting relationships through chains of command, spans of control, and distributing authority through delegation.

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Chapter 11: The Organizing Process

This document summarizes the key elements of organizing as the six building blocks of: designing jobs, grouping jobs, establishing reporting relationships, distributing authority, coordinating activities, and differentiating positions. It describes job design, specialization, and different approaches to jobs. It also outlines the bases for departmentalization including functional, product, customer, and location approaches. Finally, it discusses establishing reporting relationships through chains of command, spans of control, and distributing authority through delegation.

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Chapter 11: The Organizing Process

Deciding how best to group organizational


activities and resources
There are six building blocks that managers can
use in constructing an organization:
--Designing jobs
--Grouping jobs
--Establishing reporting relationships between jobs
--Distributing authority among jobs
--Coordinating activities among jobs
--Differentiating among positions

Job Design: The determination of an individuals


work-related responsibility.
---Job Specialization: The degree to which the
overall task of the org is broken down and
divided into smaller component parts.
---Benefits and limitations of specialization
-Job Rotation
-Job Enlargement
-Job Enrichment
-Job Characteristics Approach

-Team Work
Grouping Jobs: Departmentalization. The
process of grouping jobs according
according to some logical arrangement
--Rationale for Departmentalization.
--Common Bases of Departmentalization.
Functional Departmentalization
Product Departmentalization
Customer Departmentalization

Location Departmentalization
Other Forms of Departmentalization
--activities by time (shifts)
--Sequence (Junior-senior, etc.)
--Number (Policy no.)
Other Considerations: division, section, unit,
bureau.
Establishing Reporting Relationship:
--Chain of Command

--Narrow Versus Wide Spans


I=N(2N/2+N-1)
-Direct
-cross
-group
--Tall Versus Flat Organization
--Determining the Appropriate Span
Distributing Authority:
--The Delegation Process

--The Delegation Process


Reasons for Delegation
Problems with delegation
Decentralization and centralization
--Coordinating Activities:
-The need for coordination
Structural Coordination Process
--Differentiating Between Position
s:

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