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UNIT 4

ORGANIZING
What is Organizing ?
Organizing is the establishment of an effective authority relationship that is created among the
selected group of persons who are assigned in doing a specified work. Organizing is the
process of dividing the group into sections and departments.

 Organizing Meaning
 Organizing is a process of structuring the essential relationships among the
people, tasks, and other activities. This is done in a way that the
organization’s resources are integrated and are coordinated to accomplish
the objectives efficiently and effectively.

 The activity or skill of coordinating people and events


Nature & Purposes of Organizing

 In the first sense, ‘organising’ refers to a dynamic process and a managerial


activity by which diffe­rent elements or parts of an enterprise are brought
together to obtain a desired result.
 1. Process:
 Organisation is a process of defining, arranging and grouping the activities of
an enterprise and establishing the authority relationships among the persons
performing these activities. It is the framework within which people associate
for the attainment of an objective.
 2. Structure:
 The function of organising is the creation of a structural framework of duties
and responsibilities to be performed by a group of people for the attainment of
the objectives of the concern. The organisation structure consists of a series of
relationships at all levels of authority.
 3. Dividing and Grouping the Activities
 Organising means the way in which the parts of an enterprise are put into
working order. In doing such, it calls for the determination of parts and
integration of one complete whole on the other. In fact, organisation is a
process of dividing and combining the activities of an enterprise.
 4. Accomplishment of Goals or Objectives
 5. Authority-Responsibility Relationship:
 An organisation structure consists of vari­ous positions arranged in a hierarchy
with a clear definition of the authority and responsibility associated with each
of these. An enterprise cannot serve the specific purposes or goals unless some
positions are placed above others and given authority to bind them by their
decisions.
 6. Human and Material Aspects
Meaning and Definition of Departmentation

 Departmentation is the process which is used to group


activities into units for purpose of administration at all
levels. By this process, the personnel and functions of an
enterprise are departmentalized by division into separate
units.
Bases of Departmentation
 A. Departmentation by Function
 B. Departmentation by Product
 C. Departmentation by Territory
 D. Departmentation by Process or Equipment
 E. Departmentation by Customers
 F. Departmentation by Numbers or Time.
Span of Management
 The Span of Management refers to the number of subordinates who can
be managed efficiently by a superior. Simply, the manager having the group
of subordinates who report him directly is called as the span of
management.
Determinants of Span of Management

 Factors Impacting Span of Management


• Nature of the Work. ...
• Time Management Constraints. ...
• Experience Level of Employees. ...
• Company and Team Culture. ...
• Skill Level of Manager. ...
• Use of Technology.
Line & Staff Relationship

 line-staff organization, in management, approach in which authorities (e.g.,


managers) establish goals and directives that are then fulfilled by staff and
other workers. A line-staff organizational structure attempts to render a large
and complex enterprise more flexible without sacrificing managerial authority.
Line Staff Conflicts

 Staff-line conflict can be defined as the disagreements and jealousy between


operating managers/units and staff/support managers and units. Human
resource managers have long suffered from the staff line conflict that tends to
arise in many organizations.
Bases of Delegation
Types of Delegation and
Decentralization
Methods of Decentralization

 What is decentralization method?


 Decentralization or decentralisation is the process by which the activities of an
organization, particularly those regarding planning and decision making, are
distributed or delegated away from a central, authoritative location or group.

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