Professional Documents
Culture Documents
2 – Organization
and Management
Organizational Structure
Advantages:
All employees are aware of which communication channel is used to reach them with
messages
Everyone knows their position in the business. They know who they are accountable to and
who they are accountable for
It shows the links and relationship between the different departments
Gives everyone a sense of belonging as they appear on the organizational chart
Line Managers have authority over people directly below them in the organizational
structure. Traditional marketing/operations/sales managers are good examples.
Staff Managers are specialists who provide support, information and assistance to
line managers. The IT department manager in most organisations act as staff
managers.
Management
So,, what role do manager really have in an organization? Here are their five primary
roles:
Advantages to subordinates:
the work becomes more interesting and rewarding- increased job satisfaction
employees feel more important and feel trusted– increasing loyalty to firm
can act as a method of training and opportunities for promotions, if they do a good job.
Leadership Styles
Leaderships styles refer to the different approaches used when dealing with people
when in a position of authority. There are mainly three styles you need to learn: the
autocratic, democratic and laissez-faire styles.
Autocratic style is where the managers expects to be in charge of the business and
have their orders followed. They do all the decision-making, not involving
employees at all. Communication is thus, mainly one way- from top to bottom. This is
standard in police and armed forces organizations.
Democratic style is where managers involve employees in the decision-making and
communication is two-way from top to bottom as well as bottom to top. Information
about future plans is openly communicated and discussed with employees and a
final decision is made by the manager.
Laissez-faire (French phrase for ‘leave to do) style makes the broad objectives of the
business known to employees and leaves them to do their own decision-making and
organize tasks. Communication is rather difficult since a clear direction is not given.
The manger has a very limited role to play.
Trade Unions
A trade union is a group of workers who have joined together to ensure their interest
are protected. They negotiate with the employer (firm) for better conditions and
treatment and can threaten to take industrial action if their requests are denied.
Industrial action can include overtime ban (refusing to work overtime), go slow
(working at the slowest speed as is required by the employment contract), strike
(refusing to work at all and protesting instead) etc. Trade unions can also seek to put
forward their views to the media and influence government decisions relating to
employment.
Benefits to workers of joining a trade union:
strength in number- a sense of belonging and unity
improved conditions of employment, for example, better pay, holidays, hours of work etc
improved working conditions, foe example, health and safety
improved benefits for workers who are not working, because they’re sick, retired or made
redundant (dismissed not because of any fault of their own)
financial support if a member thinks he/she has been unfairly dismissed or treated
benefits that have been negotiated for union member such as discounts on firm’s products,
provision of health services.
Disadvantages to workers of joining a trade unions: