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Nature of Organization
Organization is a social system composed of people, structure and technology for achieving
common goals in a dynamic environment.
In other words, Organization is a human association, where two or more people come
together with a certain common aim and equipment and desire to achieve certain common
goals through planned joint effort and team work.
Therefore, organization is a place with certain structure, where people come and work
together to achieve a common goal, in a changing environment.
1. Human Association: Organization is the place where people work together to achieve the common
goals. Thus, there is always the involvement of human resource to perform a variety of activities
in goal achievement process.
2. Common goal: Every organization has its goals. It is a common purpose which binds all the
individuals and groups to contribute their effort.
3. Division of work: Organization always divides the large task into smaller packages for easy and
prompt functioning by individuals. This brings specialization in work.
4. Hierarchy of authority: Organization has a chain of command, determined by hierarchy of
authority. Under the basis of job responsibility and accountability, skill demand of the job and
complexity of the job hierarchy of authority is constructed. The power of decision making and
control is always determines by the hierarchy of authority in organization.
5. Flexibility (Envrionmental Adaptation): Organizational activities directly and indirectly influence
by the environmental factors. So it is always formulate its plans and policies that can match the
changing requirements of environment.
Types of Organization:
We find different kinds of organization in our society. These organizations are classified
according to the nature and purpose. They are as follows:-
1. Business organization: The organization which is established in order to make profit is known as
business organization. The prime beneficiaries of these organizations are the owners or
shareholders. E.g. Surya Nepal Company, Buddha Air etc.
2. Nonprofit Social Organization: The organizations which are established not for making profit but for
giving or providing services to the customer/clients or community are nonprofit social organizations. E.g. Tribhuvan
University, Nepal Red Cross, Bir Hospital etc.
3. Cooperative Organization: These types of organization are established to reduce the effort of
competition and maximize the value of cooperation. The main aim of this organization is to fulfill
the individual needs and prosperity of all members involved through collective effort.
4. Government Organization: The organization formed by the government to provide service to
general public is government organization. They can be ministries, department, military, police
etc. The main goals of this type of organization are regulation and welfare of general public.
5. International Organization: The organizations which are established by the involvement of
different countries for the sake of their welfare are called international organization. E.g.
ASEAN, SAARC, UNDP, IMF etc. These organizations are always engage in promoting the
collective interest of member countries.
Organizational Goals:
Goal is the expected outcome from the activities performed in the organization. It is the reason
behind existence of the organization.
According to A. Etzioni, “Goal may be defined as a desired state of affairs that organizations
attempt to realize”
Similarly, according to Koontz and Weihrich “Goals are the ends towards which activity is
aimed –they are the result to be achieved.”
Thus, goal is a desired end that organization wants to achieve in future by performing several
activities.
*Vision: A general statement of its intended direction that generate strong emotional feelings
in organizational members
*Mission: It states who the company is, what it does, and where it headed.
Purposes of Goals:
The main purposes of achieving goals are as follows:
1. To provides guideline and direction: Goals is a desired destination that organization wants to
reach. Thus, it provides the direction toward which the organizational activities should be
focused.
2. To develop a good planning: Planning is predetermining the activities for future. These activities
can only be identified when organization know what it wants to achieve. So goals give idea about
the expectation, the time frame, skills necessary etc., which helps to make a effective plan.
3. To motivate employee: Motivation is creating willingness in individual to give higher effort toward
work. This can only be possible when people thing or accept that, their need is fulfilled by their
effort. Since goal is a outcome and provides an idea about what people can achieve in future .It
motivates employees towards works.
4. To utilize the resource optimally: Resource can be optimally utilized only when there is precise
definition and direction of work with motivated employees. Since there all are for what the goal is
meant for. Thus, goal helps in effective utilization of resources.
5. To evaluate and control: Evaluation and control of organizational performance is essential to
ensure that the organization’s functions are working properly, and people are within the tract
(area, band) of budget limit and time schedule. This is only possible, when there is goal to be
achieved in future. Thus goal acts as standard which control and direct the actual activities.
Types of goals:
There are different types of goals formulated by an organization to their needs. They are as
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The necessity of goal succession in any organization is because of the following reasons:
1. Achievement of original goal.
2. Changes in external environment
3. Unachievable goals.
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and help them to groom their abilities and make them competent to accept and overcome any
environmental changes.
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preferences, perspectives and perception. The coalitions continuously compete with each other
for scarce organizational resources”. It states that organizations are not about hierarchies and
structures but also about the internal politics that prevails in them. Understanding and assessing
an organization from this perspective is important to know its current activities and predict its
behaviour.
d. Organization as culture: The organizational cultural perspective states that many organizational
behaviour and decisions are predetermined by the pattern of basic assumptions (beliefs, rituals,
values) held by the members of an organizations. Different studies suggested that, organizational
culture acts as powerful forces in influencing organizational life.
e. Organization as a learning system: From this perspective organization is describe as a living and
thinking open system. Organization continuously learn from their history, experience and
environment and adjust accordingly .To be an effective, organization have to learn and develop
new capabilities on a continuous basis. Sharing knowledge, experience and ideas is habit of
learning organization. Thus, learning competency of organization plays an important role in
strategic planning process.
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Unit 2
Introduction to Management
The term “management” origins from the French “Management” which means, the directing and from the
Latin “menu agree”, this means to lead by the hand. This clearly indicates that management is necessary
to direct and lead organization. It directs, coordinates and integrates the individual activities of group and
secure teamwork to accomplish organizational goal.
According to Ricky W. Griffen, “Management is a set of activities (including planning, organizing, leading
and controlling) directed at an organization’s resources (human, financial, physical and informational)
with the aim of achieving organizational goals effectively and efficiently in a changing environment.
Similarly, according to Sherlekar and Sherlekar, “Management is a process involving coordination of human
and material resources through the functions of planning, organizing, staffing, leading and controlling in
order to accomplish stated objectives.”
Thus, management is what manager does in an organization to accomplish the pre- determined goal in the
changing environment.
Characteristics of Management:
a. Management is universal: It means that management is required for every type of organization. It may be
a business organization or social or political. It may be a small firm or a large one. Management is
required by a school or a college or university or a hospital or a big firm like Reliance Industries Limited
or a small variety store in your locality. Thus, it is a universal phenomenon and is common and essential
element in all organizations.
(b) Management is goal directed: Every organization is created to achieve certain goals. For example,
for a business firm it may be to make maximum profit and/or to provide quality products and services.
Management of an organization is always aimed at achievement of the organizational goals. Success of
management is determined by the extent to which these goals are achieved.
(c) Management is a continuous process: Management is an ongoing process. It continues as long as the
organization exists. No activity can take place without management. To perform all activities like
production, sale, storage, operation etc. management is required. So, as long as these activities continue
the process of management also continues to operate.
(d) Management is an integrating process: All the functions, activities, processes and operations are
intermixed among themselves. It is the task of management to bring them together and proceed in a
coordinated manner to achieve desired result. In fact, without integration of men, machine and material
and coordination of individual efforts to contribute successfully as a team, it will be difficult to achieve
organizational goals.
(e) Management is intangible: Management is not a place like a graphic showing Board meeting or a
graphic showing a school Principal at her office desk which can be seen .It is an unseen force and you can
feel its presence in the form of rules, regulation, output, work climate, etc.
(f) Management is multi-disciplinary: Management of an organization requires wide knowledge about
various disciplines as it covers handling of man, machine, and material and looking after production,
distribution, accounting and many other functions. Thus, we find the principles and techniques of
management are mostly drawn from almost all fields of study like – Engineering, Economics, Sociology,
Psychology, Anthropology, Mathematics, Statistics etc.
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(g) Management is a social process: The most important aspect of management is handling people
organized in work groups. This involves developing and motivating people at work and taking care of
their satisfaction as social beings. All managerial actions are primarily concerned with relations between
people and so it is treated as a social process.
(h) Management is situational: The success of management depends on, and varies from, situation to
situation. There is no best way of managing. The techniques and principles of management are relative,
and do not hold good for all situations to come.
(i) There must be a systematized body of knowledge that includes concepts, people and
theories. (ii) We should be able to establish a cause and effect relationship.
(iii) Its principles should be verifiable.
(iv) Its should ensure predictable results.
(v) It should have universal application.
Management as a subject of study fulfils almost all the above characteristics. Theories and techniques like
scientific management, PERT and CPM, break even analysis, budgeting etc. are all scientific in nature.
However, since it deals with human beings, we cannot predict a definite cause - effect relationships.
Hence management is not treated as a pure or full-fledged science. As for the art, you know that it refers
to bringing about the desired result through application of skill. It is a personalized process and states that
there is no best way of doing a thing. Thus, it is creative and it improves by practice. In art we learn about
the ‘how’ of a phenomenon. For example, take the case of painting. There is nothing called the best way
of painting. More one paints, the more he improves and learns how to paint. Now look at management.
Here also we apply a lot of skill (like technical, conceptual, human etc.) and it is also creative in nature.
Nobody can say that this is the best way of managing. It varies from one manager to another. The more
one manages, the more experienced and expert he becomes. Thus, management is a combination of both
science and art.
Management as Profession
In the first lesson you had learnt that profession is an occupation. To be precise, any occupation that satisfies
the following requirements is called a profession.
(i) It must be an organized and systematized body of knowledge. Take for example professions like
engineering or chartered accountancy. These require a specialized knowledge.
(ii) There is always a formal method of acquisition of such knowledge. In other words, individuals, to
pursue a specific profession, must acquire the specialized knowledge through some formal institutions.
For example, you need to get a degree in law or engineering to pursue the profession of a lawyer or
engineer.
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(iii) There exists an association to devise certain code of conduct for the professionals. This code of
conduct lays down norms to be observed by the professionals while doing their job. Violation of the
prescribed code can lead to derecognizing the professional to practice.
(iv)A profession is no doubt an occupation to earn one’s livelihood but the financial reward is not the
main measure of their success. The professional use their specialized knowledge to serve the long-run
interests of the society and are also conscious of their social responsibility. Though management may not
meet all the requirements of a profession in strict sense of the term, but it meets most of the above
requirements and is, now a days, regarded a fully fledged profession. A number of institutions have come
up to teach management in a formal way and train future managers. Various associations like American
Management Association in USA, All India Management Association in India have been functioning as
representative bodies of managers and have duly devised codes of conduct for managers. Many more
organizations have come up in the specialized fields of management.
Principle of Management
Following are the fourteen principles of management developed by the Henry Fayol:
1. Division of Work
According to Henry Fayol under division of work, "The worker always on the same post, the manager
always concerned with the same matters, acquire an ability, sureness and accuracy which increases
their output. In other words, division of work means specialization. According to this principle, a
person is not capable of doing all types of work. Each job and work should be assigned to the
specialist of his job. Division of work promotes efficiency because it permits an organizational
member to work in a limited area reducing the scope of his responsibility. Fayol wanted the division
of work not only at factory but at management levels also.
2. Authority and Responsibility
Authority and responsibility go together or co-existing. Both authority and responsible are the two sides
of a coin. In this way, if anybody is made responsible for any job, he should also have the concerned
authority. Fayol's principle of management in this regard is that an efficient manager makes best
possible use of his authority and does not escape from the responsibility. In other words when the
authority is exercised the responsibility is automatically generated.
3. Discipline
According to Henry Fayol discipline means sincerity about the work and enterprise, carrying out orders
and instructions of superiors and to have faith in the policies and programs of the business enterprise,
in other sense, discipline in terms of obedience, application, energy and respect to superior. However,
Fayol does not advocate warming, fines, suspension and dismissals of worker for maintaining
discipline. These punishments are rarely awarded. A well disciplined working force is essential for
improving the quality and quantity of the production.
4. Unity of Command
A subordinate should take order from only one boss and he should be responsible and accountable to him.
Further he claimed that if the unit of command is violated, authority is undermined, disciplined in
danger, order disturbed and stability threatened. The violation of this principle will face some serious
consequences. In this way, the principle of unity of command provides the enterprise disciplined
stable and orderly existence. It creates harmonious relationship between officers and subordinates,
congenial (pleasant) atmosphere at work. It is one of the Fayol's important essential principles of
management.
5. Unity of direction
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Fayol advocates "One head and one plan" which means that group efforts on a particular plan be led and
directed by a single person. This enables effective co-ordination of individual efforts and energy. This
fulfils the principles of unity of command and brings uniformity in the work of same nature. In this
way the principle of direction create dedication to purpose and loyalty. It emphasizes the attainment
of common goal under one head.
6. Subordination of individual interests to general interests
The interest of the business enterprise ought to come before the interests of the praise individual workers.
In other words, principle of management states that employees should surrender their personnel
interest before the general interest of the enterprise. Sometimes, employees overlook the interest of
the organization due to ignorance, selfishness, laziness, carelessness and emotional pleasure. This
attitude proves to be very harmful to the enterprise.
7. Fair Remuneration to employees
According to Fayol wage-rates and method of their payment should be fair, proper and satisfactory. Both
employees and ex-employers should agree to it. Logical and appropriate wage-rate and methods of
their payment reduces tension and differences between workers and management, create harmonious
relationship and a pleasing atmosphere of work. Further, Fayol, recommends that residential facilities
be provided including arrangement of electricity, water and facilities.
8. Centralization and Decentralization
There should be one central point in the organization which exercises overall direction and control of all
the parts. But the degree of centralization of authority should vary according to the needs of situation.
According to Fayol there should be centralization in small units and proper decentralization in big
organization. Further, Fayol does not favor centralization or decentralization of authorities but
suggests that these should be proper and effective adjustment between centralization and
decentralization in order to achieve maximum objectives of the business. The choice between
centralization and decentralization should be made after taking into consideration the nature of work
and the efficiency, experience and decision-making capacity of the executives.
9. Scalar chain
The scalar chain is a chain of supervisors from the highest to the lowest rank. It should be short- circuited.
An employee should feel the necessity to contact his superior through the scalar chain. The authority
and responsibility is communicated through this scalar chain. Fayol defines scalar chain as "the chain
of superiors ranging from the ultimate authority to the lowest rank."
10. Order:
According to Fayol there should be proper, systematic and orderly arrangement of physical and social
factors, such as land, raw materials, tools and equipments and employees respectively. As per view,
there should be safe, appropriate and specific place for every article and every place to be used
effectively for a particular activity and commodity. There should be selection and appointment of the
most suitable person to every job. There should be specific place for everyone and everyone should
have specific place. This principle also stresses scientific selection and appointment of employees on
every job.
11. Equity
The principle of equality should be followed and applicable at every level of management. There should
not be any discrimination as regards caste, sex and religion. An effective management always does
sympathetic and human treatment. The management should be kind, honest and impartial with the
employees. In other words, kindness and justice should be exercised by management in dealing with
their subordinates. This will create loyalty and devotion among the employees. Thus, workers should
be treated at par at every level.
12. Stability of use of personnel
Principle of stability is linked with long tenure of personnel in the organization. This means production
being a team work, an efficient management always builds a team of good workers. If the members of
the team go on changing, the entire process of production will be disturbed. It is always in the interest
of the enterprise that its trusted, experienced and trained employees do not leave the
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organization. Stability of job creates a sense of belongingness among workers who with this feeling are
encouraged to improve the quality and quantity of work.
13. Initiative
Under this principle, the successful management provides an opportunity to its employees to suggest their
new ideas, experiences and more convenient methods of work. The employees, who has been
working on the specific job since long discover now, better alternative approach and technique of
work. It will be more useful, if initiative to do so is provided to employees. In simple, to ensure
success, plans should be well formulated before they are implemented.
14. Spirit of Co-operation (Spirit de crops)
In order to achieve the best possible results, individual and group efforts are to be effectively integrated
and coordinated. Production is a team work for which the whole-hearted support and co- operation of
the members at all levels is required. Everyone should sacrifice his personal interest and contribute
his best energies to achieve the best results. It refers to the spirit of loyalty, faithfulness on the part of
the members of the group which can be achieved by strong motivating recognition and importance of
the members for their valuable contribution, effective coordination, informal mutual social
relationship between members of the group and positive and constructive approach of the
management towards workers' welfare.
Functions of Management:
In every organisation, the managers perform certain basic functions. These are broadly divided into six
categories viz., planning, organising, staffing, directing, coordinating and controlling. These are discussed
basically hereunder. You will learn about all these functions in detail in the lessons to follow.
(a)Planning
Planning is deciding in advance what is to be done, when it is to be done, how it is to be done. It is basically
concerned with the selection of goals to be achieved and determining the effective course of action from
among the various alternatives. This involves forecasting, establishing targets, developing the policies and
programming and scheduling the action, procedure, etc., Thus, planning requires decisions to be made on
what should be done, how it should be done, who will do it, where it will be done, and why it is to be
done. The essential part of planning consists of setting goals and programmes of activities. (b)Organizing
After the plans have been drawn, management has to organise the activities, and physical resources of the
firm to carry out the selected programmes successfully. It also involves determining the authority and
responsibility relationships among functions, departments and personnel at various levels to ensure
smooth and effective function together in accomplishing the objective. Thus, the organising function of
management is primarily concerned with identifying the tasks involved and grouping them into units and
departments, and defining the duties and responsibilities of people in different positions within each
department for well coordinated and cooperative effort in the organisation.
(c) Staffing
Staffing is concerned with employing people for the various activities to be performed. The objective of
staffing is to ensure that suitable people have been appointed for different positions. It includes the
functions of recruitment, training and development, placement and remuneration, and performance
appraisal of the employees.
(d) Directing
The directing function of management includes guiding the subordinates, supervising their performance,
communicating effectively and motivating them. A manager should be a good leader. He should be able
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to command and issue instruction without arousing any resentment among the subordinates. He should keep a
watch on the performance of his subordinates and help them out whenever they come across any
difficulty. The communication system, i.e., exchange of information should take place regularly for
building common understanding and clarity. The managers should also understand the needs of
subordinates and inspire them to do their best and encourage initiative and creativity.
(e) Coordinating
Management has to ensure that all the activities contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the business
as a whole. This requires integration of activities and synchronization of efforts. The heads of different
departments should not treat each other as competitors but should work as organs of one body. As the
proper functioning of every organ of a human body is important for a healthy body, the work of every
department is important for the organisation as a whole. Managers should, therefore, see that everybody
in the organisation understands its objectives and works in co-operation with others to achieve these
objectives. This function of management is called co-ordination. It consists of harmonizing group effort
so as to achieve common objectives.
(f) Controlling
This function of management consists of the steps taken to ensure that the performance of work is in
accordance with the plans. It involves establishing performance standards and measuring the actual
performance with the standards set. If differences are noticed, corrective steps are taken which may
include revision of standards, regulate operations, remove deficiencies and improve performance.
Levels of Management:
There are certain levels of management with varying degree of authority and responsibilities. Some managers
decide about the objectives of the business as a whole; some managers perform functions to achieve these
objectives in different departments, like production, sales, etc, and some of the managers are concerned
with the supervision of day-to-day activities of workers. Managers performing different types of duties
may, thus, be divided into three categories:
1. Top-Level Management
2. Middle-Level Management
3. Lower-Level Management
The following diagram will give you idea of different levels of management.
Top Level
Management
Board of Directors and Chief
Executives.
Departmental heads
Director or General Manager. This level determines the objectives of the business as a whole and lays down
policies to achieve these objectives (making of policy means providing guidelines for actions and
decision). The top management also exercises an overall control over the organisation.
The middle-level management includes heads of various departments, e.g., production, sales, etc., and other
departmental managers. Sometimes senior departmental heads are included in the top management team.
The objectives of the business as a whole are translated into departmental objectives for the middle level
management. The heads of the departments then work out their own strategies so as to achieve these
objectives. Middle level managers are particularly concerned with the activities of their respective
departments.
The lower-level management consists of foremen and supervisors who look after the operative workers, and
ensure that the work is carried out properly and on time. Thus, they have the primary responsibility for the
actual production of goods and services in the organization.
These three levels of management taken together form the ‘hierarchy of management’. It indicates the ranks
and positions of managers in the hierarchy. It shows that the middle level management is subordinate to
the top-level and that the lower-level is subordinate to the middle-level management.
Managerial Roles
Mintzbergs a management thinker identified ten roles and classified them within three broad
categories. 1 .Interpersonal Roles 2.Informational Roles 3. Decisional Roles 1
.Interpersonal Roles:
c) Liaison:
It describes a manager’s relationship with the outsiders. A manager maintains smooth relation with other
organization government’s industry groups etc.
2. Informational Roles:
a) Monitor:
A manager scans the environment and collects internal and external information’s.
b) Disseminator:
Manager distributes the information to his subordinates in order to achieve organizational
objectives. c) Spokes person:
A Manager transmits the information’s to the outside of the organization.
3. Decision Role:
a) Entrepreneur:
Initiates and supervises design of organizational improvement projects.
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b) Disturbance handler:
A manager is responsible for taking corrective action when organization faces
problem. c) Resource allocated:
Manager is responsible for allocation of human, monetary and material resources.
d) Negotiator:
As a manager he bargains with suppliers, dealers, trade union, agents etc.
Managerial Skills
Robert L. Katz identified three kinds of skills for administrators. To these may be added a fourth—the ability
to design solutions.
1. Technical skill is knowledge of and proficiency in activities involving methods, processes, and
procedures. Thus it involves working with tools and specific techniques. For example, mechanics work
with tools, and their supervisors should have the ability to teach them how to use these tools. Similarly,
accountants apply specific techniques in doing their job.
2. Human skill is the ability to work with people; it is cooperative effort; it is teamwork; it is the
creation of an environment in which people feel secure and free to express their opinions. 3. Conceptual
skill is the ability to see the "big picture," to recognize significant elements in a situation, and to
understand the relationships among the elements.
4. Design skill is the ability to solve problems in ways that will benefit the enterprise. To be effective,
particularly at upper organizational levels, managers must be able to do more than see a problem. If
managers merely see the problem and become "problem watchers," they will fail. They must have, in
addition, the skill of a good design engineer in working out a practical solution to a problem.
The relative importance of these skills may differ at various levels in the organization hierarchy. Among these
skills, technical skills are of greatest importance at the supervisory level. Human skills are also helpful in
the frequent interactions with subordinates. Conceptual skills, on the other hand, are usually not critical
for lower level supervisors. At the middle management level, the need for technical skills decreases;
human skills are still essential; and the conceptual skills gain in importance. At the top management level,
conceptual and design abilities and human skills are especially valuable, but there is relatively little need
for technical abilities.
a. Globalization of business: Globalization means flow of goods, services, informations, manpower etc
across nations without any restrictions. Due to globalization, world is consider as the small village.
The time and the place gap have been almost overcome by the help of new technologies. There is
continuous exchange of new ideas, innovations, methods and techniques across nations.This bring
both opportunities and threat to the business organization. A part from this, the regional agreement
and World Trade Organization (WTO) boost up the competitive market and added more complexity
to the manager’s job. Thus, managers need to understand the process of globalization and the
competition it creates for them and should act effectively and efficiently to overcome such challenges.
b. Technology: Technology is a major drive that changes the way the people think and act in their
corresponding environment. Technological advancement in computers and other electronic data
processing equipment have changed the whole system of managerial functions like planning, decision
making, organizing, motivating, controlling. Thus, managers need to recognize and anticipate
technological change and act according to capitalize the opportunities and neutralize the threats.
c. Quality Assurance and Productivity: In today’s context, quality is considered as the ability to satisfy
the customer. However, the human wants are every growing and providing the goods and service to
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satisfy their needs is bigger challenge for a today’s manager. The product and services must meet the
expectation of customer in terms cost, time, and services delivered within the product. To improve the
quality Total Quality Management (TQM) is being used in most of the organization, targeting
continuous improvement programs that include all the stakeholders together with suppliers and
customers. A part from this productivity is also becoming a major issue for today’s organization. Due
to extreme competition managers are focusing in reducing the wastages in terms of materials, time
and effort and thus enhancing the productivity.
d. Ethics and Social Responsibility: Ethics is concerned with the moral principles or values that
determine whether our action is right or wrong. Business must follow the ethics in their policies and
practices. However, one of the major challenges for our managers is to decide on whether a certain
behavior or action of employee is ethical or not. Thus, managers must understand the ethical norms
and values and act accordingly.
Social Responsibility is the duty towards society. The society includes all the stakeholders such as
customers, suppliers, creditors, employees, owners, government etc. So, management must address
the expectation of these stakeholders and fulfill their wants. Similarly, environmental issues, such as
global warming, pollution, ecology distortion etc are becoming major challenges to be addressed
effectively in the strategy and practices by the manger in an organization.
e. Empowerment: Delegating the power to the employees is a major challenge to mangers in today’s
context. People desire autonomy in their worksites, they want to take part in decision making and
enhance their creativity in the organizations. However, ineffective handling of such delegation may
de-motivate the employees and leads to employee turnover, absenteeism and stagnations in work.
Thus managers should create self-managed teams or autonomous work groups to empower the
employees.
f. Work-Force Diversity: It refers to the mix of people from various backgrounds in terms of gender, race,
ethnicity etc in today’s labour force. The participation of women and minorities has been increasing.
Thus, the challenge for a manager is to accommodate these diverse groups of people by addressing
different lifestyles, family needs and work styles.
g. Learning Organization: Organization must be able to learn from the past and present scenario and
formulate policies and practices accordingly. A learning organization is one that had developed the
capacity to continuously learn, adapt and change. The challenge for the managers is to change their
behavioural style and transform from the bosses to the team leaders.
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Unit 3
According to Fredrick Winslow Taylor, "Scientific management means knowing exactly what you want men to
do and seeing that they do it in the best and the cheapest way."
According to Harlow Person, "Scientific management characterizes that form of organisation and procedure in
purposive collective effort which rests on principles or laws derived by the process of scientific
investigation and analysis, instead of tradition or on policies determined empirically and casually by the
process of trial and error."
According to Jones, "Scientific management is a body of rules, together with their appropriate expression in
physical and administrative mechanism and specialized executives, to be operated in coordination as a
system for the achievement of a new strictness in the control and process of production."
According to Lioyd, Dodd and Zynch, In broad outline "Scientific management seeks to get the maximum from
methods, men materials machines and money and it controls the works of production from the location and
layout of the worker to the final distribution of the product."
According to Peter F. Drucker, " Scientific management is the organized study of work, the analysis of work
into its simplest element and the systematic improvement of the workers".
A Definite plan: The main characteristic of scientific management is that before starting and work
there must be a definite plan before as and the work is to be done strictly according to that plan.
Discards old methods: It discards the age old methods of rule of thumb and hit or miss approaches.
Emphasis: It lays emphasis on all factors of production, men, material and technology.
Techniques: It implies scientific techniques in methods of work, recruitment, selection and training of
workers.
Attempts: It attempts to develop each man to his greatest efficiency and prosperities.
Method: It attempts to discover the best method of doing a work at thecheapest cost.
A definite Aim: It is another main characteristic of scientific management. Scientific management is
the process of organizing, directing, conducting and controlling human activities. Hence there
must be a definite aim before the managers, so that the human activities be organized directed
conducted and controlled for achieving that aim or aims.
Changes in attitude: It involves a complete change in the mental attitude of workers as well as the
management.
A Set of Rules: There must be a set of rules in accordance with the laid plan so that the objectives can
be achieved. According to F.W. Taylor, It is no single element but rather the whole combination
that constitutes the scientific management.
Primary Principles of scientific management as evolved by F.W. Taylor:F.W. Taylor, the father of
scientific management evolved the following five primary principle of scientific management:
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Another principle of scientific management is the standardization of tools and equipments. it is essential for the
improvement of quality of products and also for bringing about uniformity in the production of standard
goods. As a matter of fact, standardization should be maintained in respect of tools, equipments, materials,
period of work, working conditions, amount of work, cost of production etc.
Frank and Lillian Gilbreth:- The Gilbreth used motion picture films to study hand and body motions. Their
concern was on “economy of movement “They emphasized on the use of technique and methods to help
workers in developing their fullest potential trough training ,improved tools ,working environment and
standardize work method.
Willing H Leffingwell:- Leffingwell developed five principles of effective work. They are: - i) planning at work
ii) scheduling the work iii) executing the work iv) measuring the work and v) rewarding the workers. Henry L
Gantt: Gant refined the production control and cost control techniques. Gantt invent a technique of scheduling
work which is also called Gantt Chart. He was the first theorist to suggest management to pay attention to
service rather than profits.
Harrington Emerson: Emerson not only focuses on efficiency and productivity of work but, on the overall
objectives cost accounting and the function of staff department.
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Fayol developed theory of management. According to him managerial excellence is a technical ability and can
be acquired. He developed theories and principles of management which are universally accepted and make
him universalistic. He was pioneer of the formal education in management. He stated that, management can
be studied in terms of the management process. Management consists of:
Managerial Skill: It includes: i. Physical Skill ii) Mental Skill iii) Moral Skill iv) Educational Skill v)
Technical Skill vi) Experience
Management Functions: It includes: i) Forecast and Plan ii) Organize iii) Command iv)
Coordinate v) Control
Business Activities: It includes : i) Technical ii) Commercial iii) Financial iv) Security v)
Accounting vi) Managerial
Principle of management : (See below)
Henry Fayol, a French industrialist, offered fourteen principles of management for the first time in 1916. During
the period of 1920-40 in the U.S. many authors did hard work in developing and testing various principles of
management. Today, there is a very lengthly list of management principles and it is not possible to give an
exhaustive lot of these management principles. Here, we are giving some important principles of
management.
Following are the fourteen principles of management developed by the Henry Fayol:
Division of Work
According to Henry Fayol under division of work, "The worker always on the same post, the manager always
concerned with the same matters, acquire an ability, sureness and accuracy which increases their output. In
other words, division of work means specialization. According to this principle, a person is not capable of
doing all types of work. Each job and work should be assigned to the specialist of his job. Division of work
promotes efficiency because it permits an organizational member to work in a limited area reducing the
scope of his responsibility. Fayol wanted the division of work not only at factory but at management levels
also.
Discipline
According to Henry Fayol discipline means sincerity about the work and enterprise, carrying out orders and
instructions of superiors and to have faith in the policies and programmes of the business enterprise, in other
sense, discipline in terms of obedience, application, energy and respect to superior. However, Fayol does not
advocate warming, fines, suspension and dismissals of worker for maintaining discipline.
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These punishments are rarely awarded. A well disciplined working force is essential for improving the quality
and quantity of the production.
Unity of Command
A subordinate should take order from only one boss and he should be responsible and accountable to him.
Further he claimed that if the unit of command is violated, authority is undermined, disciplined in danger,
order disturbed and stability threatened. The violation of this principle will face some serious consequences.
In this way, the principle of unity of command provides the enterprise disciplined, stable and orderly
existence. It creates harmonious relationship between officers and subordinates, congenial atmosphere of
work. It is one of the Fayol's important essential principle of management.
Unity of direction
Fayol advocates "One head and one plan" which means that group efforts on a particular plan be led and
directed by a single person. This enables effective co-ordination of individual efforts and energy. This fulfils
the principles of unity of command and brings uniformity in the work of same nature. In this way the
principle of direction create dedication to purpose and loyalty. It emphasizes the attainment of common goal
under one head.
Scalar chain
The scalar chain is a chain of supervisors from the highest to the lowest rank. It should be short-circuited. An
employee should feel the necessity to contact his superior through the scalar chain. The authority and
responsibility is communicated through this scalar chain. Fayol defines scalar chain as "the chain of
superiors ranging from the ultimate authority to the lowest rank." The flow of information between
management and workers is a must. Business opportunities must be immediately avoided of. so we must
make direct contact with the concerned employee. Business problems need immediate solution, so we
cannot always depend on the established scalar chain. It requires that direct contact should be established.
Order:
According to Fayol there should be proper, systematic and orderly arrangement of physical and social factors,
such as land, raw materials, tools and equipments and employees respectively. As per view, there should be
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safe, appropriate and specific place for every article and every place to be used effectively for a particular
activity and commodity. In other words, principles that every piece of land and every article
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should be used properly, economically and in the best possible way. Selection and appointment of the most
suitable person to every job. There should be specific place for everyone and everyone should have specific
place. This principle also stresses scientific selection and appointment of employees on every job. Equity
The principle of equality should be followed and applicable at every level of management. There should not be
any discrimination as regards caste, sex and religion. An effective management always accords sympathetic
and human treatment. The management should be kind, honest and impartial with the employees. In other
words, kindness and justice should be exercised by management in dealing with their subordinates. This will
create loyalty and devotion among the employees. Thus, workers should be treated at par at every level.
Initiative
Under this principle, the successful management provides an opportunity to its employees to suggest their new
ideas, experiences and more convenient methods of work. The employees, who has been working on the
specific job since long discover now, better alternative approach and technique of work. It will be more
useful, if initiative to do so is provided to employees. In simple, to ensure success, plans should be well
formulated before they are implemented.
Contribution:
This theory serves as the foundation for the study of management function of planning, organizing,
staffing , directing and controlling
It serves as the guide for modern management behaviors. Limitations:
This theory has limited application in the complex and dynamic environment. Since it ignores the
impact of environmental changes.
This principle is mechanistic in nature, which cannot be applicable in modern
management. This theory ignores the importance of human behaviors.
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managing director and work downwards, was merely a reflection of their very different
careers”. They both differ from each other in following aspects: -
Taylor looked at management from supervisory viewpoint & tried to improve efficiency at operating level. He
moved upwards while formulating theory. On the other hand, Fayol analyzed management from level of top
management downward. Thus, Fayol could afford a broader vision than Taylor.
Taylor called his philosophy “Scientific Management” while Fayol described his approach as “A general theory
of administration”.
Main aim of Taylor - to improve labor productivity & to eliminate all type of waste through standardization of
work & tools. Fayol attempted to develop a universal theory of management and stressed upon need for
teaching the theory of management.
Taylor focused his attention on fact by management and his principles are applicable on shop floor. But Fayol
concentrated on function of managers and on general principles of management wheel could be equally
applied in all.
Similarity - Both emphasized mutual co-operation between employment and employees. Spheres of
Human Activity
Fayol’s theory is more widely applicable than that of Taylor, although Taylor’s philosophy has
undergone a big change under influence of modern development, but Fayol’s principles of
management have stood the test of time and are still being accepted as the core of management
theory.
Psychologists View Point
According to Psychologists, Taylor's study had following drawbacks: -
Ignores human factors - Considers them as machines. Ignores human requirements, want and
aspirations. Separation of Planning and Doing.
Dissatisfaction - Comparing performance with others.
No best way - Scientific management does not give one best way for solving problems
Max Weber (1864-1920), who was a German sociologist, proposed different characteristics found in effective
bureaucracies that would effectively conduct decision-making, control resources, protect workers and
accomplish organizational goals. Max Weber's model of Bureaucracy is oftentimes described through a simple
set of characteristics, which will be described in this article.
Max Weber's work was translated into English in the mid-forties of the twentieth century, and was oftentimes
interpreted as a caricature of modern bureaucracies with all of their shortcomings. However, Weber's work
was indented to supplant old organizational structures that existed in the earlier periods of industrialization.
To fully appreciate and understand the work of Max Weber, one therefore has to keep the historic context in
mind, and not "just" see his work as a caricature of bureaucraticmodels.
Below, some characteristics of the bureaucratic model are presented. Each characteristic is described in relation
to which traditional features of administrative systems they were intended to succeed.
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Hierarchy of offices
Each office should be controlled and supervised by a higher ranking office. However, lower offices should
maintain a right to appeal decisions made higher in the hierarchy.
This should replace a more traditional system, in which power and authority relations are more diffuse, and not
based on a clear hierarchical order.
Rational-legal authority
A bureaucracy is founded on rational-legal authority. This type of authority rests on the belief in the "legality" of
formal rules and hierarchies, and in the right of those elevated in the hierarchy to posses authority and issue
commands. Authority is given to officials based on their skills, position and authority placed formally in
each position.
This should supplant earlier types administrative systems, where authority was legitimized based on other, and
more individual, aspects of authority like wealth, position, ownership, heritage etc.
Officials are recruited based on qualifications, and are appointed, not elected, to the office. People are
compensated with a salary, and are not compensated with benefices such as rights to land, power etc. This
should supplant more particularistic ways of staffing found in more traditional systems, where officials were
often selected due to their relation with the leader or social rank. Benefices such as land, rights etc. were also
common ways of compensating people, which was to be replaced by a general salary matching qualifications.
Employment in the organizations should be seen as a career for officials. An official is a full-time employee, and
anticipates a lifelong career. After an introduction period, the employee is given tenure, which protects the
employee from arbitrary dismissal.
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This should supplant more traditional systems, in which employees' career paths were determined by the leader,
and in which employees lacked the security of tenure.
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Max Weber viewed these bureaucratic elements as solutions to problems or defects within earlier and more
traditional administrative systems. Likewise, he viewed these elements as parts of a total system, which,
combined and instituted effectively, would increase the effectiveness and efficiency of the administrative
structure.
The bureaucratic structure would to a greater extent protect employees from arbitrary rulings from leaders, and
would potentially give a greater sense of security to the employees.
Additionally, the bureaucratic structure would create an opportunity for employees to become specialists within
one specific area, which would increase the effectiveness and efficiency in each area of the organization. Finally,
when rules for performance are relatively stable, employees would have a greater possibility to act
creatively within the realm of their respective duties and sub-tasks, and to find creative ways to accomplish
rather stable goals and targets.
Mary Parker Follett: Follet propounded democratic and participatory theory of management. She
pointed out the need for the concept of group and association to be introduced in the practice of
management. She advocates the democratization of the work force.
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Elton W. Mayo (The Hawthorne Studies): The study conducted by Elton Mayo and his associates
between 1927-1932 at Western Electric’s Hawthorne Plant dramatically impacted the prevailing
thought of management .They experimented the effect of illumination on work productivity. In
that study, two groups: i) controlled and ii) experiment groups were formed to find out the effect
of bright and dim light. The control group work without change in lighting and the experiment
group worked in fluctuating lighting condition. The result showed that there is no relation
between illumination and performance. In other words, productivity of both groups increased.
Thus, the study concluded that the human element (more specifically relation among workers) is
important in the workplace. This study discovered the effect of group norms and standard on
individual behaviour. In another experiment Mayo revealed that productivity improved by change
in working conditions as length of rest time, duration of work, presence or absence of free lunch
etc.
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs Maslow separated the five needs into higher and lower orders. Lower
order needs: The needs that are satisfied externally and lower order needs, such physiological needs,
and safety needs.
Higher order needs: The needs that are satisfied internally, such as social, esteem and self
actualization needs.
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Douglas McGregor invented the Theory X and Theory Y, also known as “hard guy, soft guy” approaches of
managing people in the organization. It states that, people’s commitment to work in organization is
influenced by assumptions managers make about people. One set of assumption is called theory X, which
describes employees with relatively negative view. And another set of assumption is called theory Y, which
describe employees positively.
1. The average person dislikes work inherently. 1. The average person does not inherently
dislike work but depending on condition may
find work to be satisfying or
punishment.
2. The average person will avoid work if he or 2. People will exercise self-direction and self
she can. control to achieve organizational objectives
under certain conditions.
3. Most people must be coerced, controlled 3.People will seek to attain their firm’s
or threatened with punishment to get them objectives if there are sufficient rewards
to work toward the achievement of provided.
organizational goals.
4. The average person prefers to direct to 4.Under proper conditions the average
avoid responsibility. individual will seek responsibility.
5. The average individual has relatively 5.The capacity to use imagination and originality
little ambition and wants security above is widely found in the people.
all.
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The Decision Theory:
Herbert Simon, Luther Gulik and Lyndall Urwick have been the major contributor to this management thought.
This theory focuses on managerial decisions. Decisions are made through rational choice among different
alternative available. It is a choice making activity and choice determines our activity.
Herbert Simon’s (One of the major contributors of decision theory) model is based on two concepts
Bounded rationality: rational decision making is constrained by limitation of knowledge, resource etc.
Satisficing: Maximization is not possible in decision making .Decision make should “satisfice” and
achieve the satisfactory outcome administrative man always satisfice.
This theory advocates that decision making should be rational. The rational approach to decision making should
involves the following steps:
Define the problems
Identify relevant alternatives
Evaluate the alternatives.
Select the best course of action
Implement the action
Evaluate the result of the action Contribution and Limitation of Decision Theory Contribution: In
the field of management the decision theory provides guidelines for manager to make decision and
solve problems.
This theory provides the “science” of improved organizational decision making through quantitative
methods.
The theory makes the path for studying the process by which administrative organization makes
decisions.
Limitations:
It does not take a total view of management. Its scope is limited.
Sometimes it is difficult to claim whether a decision finalize the action or commence the action.
Management Information System: It helps manager design information systems that provide
information about events occurring within and outside an organization.
Contributions:
1. It recognizes the interrelation and interactions among subsystems for synergetic effect. In addition it
implies that decision s and actions take in one organizational area will affect others and vice versa.
2. It recognizes that organizations are not self –contained. They rely on their environment for essential
inputs and as outlets to absorb their outputs.
Limitations:
There are practical problems in applying system theory in organizations. The problems occur to
determine system’s boundaries and identify interrelations of the varioussub-systems.
How managers have to process the things is not very clearly defined by the systemtheory.
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Routineness of Task Technology: To achieve its purpose, an organization uses technology. Routine
technologies require organizational structure, leadership styles and control system that differ from
those required by customized or non-routine technologies.
Environmental Uncertainty: The degree of uncertainty caused by environmental changes influences
the management process. What works best in a stable and predictable environment may be totally
inappropriate in a rapidly changing and unpredictable environment.
Individual Differences: Individual differences in terms of their desire for growth, autonomy, tolerance
of ambiguity, and expectations. These and other individual differences are particularly important
when mangers select motivation techniques, leadership styles and job designs.
Unit 4
Environmental Context of Management
Environment occupies a very significant place in functioning of organization. It refers to the forces that create
conditions and influences on the capacity of a business firm to compete in the market. The ability to cope
with the changing environment determines the survival of an organization. Thus, analysis of the
environmental forces is the key to be an effective organization.
Business environment is sum total of all forces surrounding and influencing the life and development of an
organization. According to Gareth: Business environment is defined as “The set of forces surrounding an
organization that have the potential to affect the way it operates and its access to scarceresources”
Business manager have to understand changes and complexity of the environment forces to skillfully exercise
them so as to increase firm’s competitive capacity in the market.
Political
Conversion Outputs Goods
Inputs
Capital
Raw material
Services
Labor
Technological Business Firm Socio-cultural Profit
Land
Employment
Feed back
Technology Tax Revenue
Economic
Figure 1: Business system and its environment
Types of environment: The component of business environment is classified into two broad categories.
1. Internal Environment
2. External Environment.
1. Internal Environment: Internal Environment is defined as all the forces and conditions within an
organization that influence organizational behavior. An organization’s internal environment has
the following components:
a. Employees: They are the main components and important assets of an organization. Employees are
responsible to work as per the direction, goals, rule and regulation of the company. To work on
these goals and directions, organization has to motivate and satisfy employees with specific
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reward policy. Without the cooperation of employees and their productivity, organization cannot attain
their expected goals.
b. Shareholder and Board of Directors: Shareholders being the owners of business have a direct
interest in the performance of the organization. The directors are elected by them (shareholder),
who represent their interest in the board. The board is responsible to manage company and
formulate appropriate strategy and long term planning. They evaluate overall organization
performance and provide direction to the top level management for the growth of anorganization.
c. Culture: Every organization has its own culture. Culture refers to a set values, beliefs of an
organization under which it is functioning. It helps to bind all employees and comply with
organizational rules and regulation. Culture has a powerful influence on the process of
organizational change and decision making.
d. Labor Unions: Labor Union represents the problems and feeling of their members to management.
The good relation between labor union and management avoid unnecessary disturbances in an
organization.
1. External Environment:
External Environment is the condition and forces outside the organization that are relevant to its
operation and influence the organizational activites. There are two categories of the external
environment.
a. General Environment
b. Task(Specific) Environment
a. General Environment: General Environment consists of those forces that put direct pressure on
the organizational activities. They are as follows;
i. Economic Environment: General economic conditions are critical to the success of an organization.
It is defined as the nature and direction of the economic system of a country and their impacts in the
individual organization. The economic factors such as, national income, saving, investment,
monetary policy, economic growth, interest rate, consumption pattern, employment rate etc. have
great impact on functioning of an organization. Managers should devote much of their time and
resources to forecast the economy and anticipating changes. Components :( Economic System,
Economic Policies, Business Cycle, Capital Market)
ii. Socio-Culture Environment: The socio-culture environment affects the behavior of people and
their organization. It includes, values, beliefs, lifestyle, family-system, opinions, and
assumptions widely held by the citizen of the particular country. These elements of society
directly influence business organization.
Components: (Attitude and Beliefs, Religion, Language, Education, Social Organisation, Class
System)
iii. Political Environment: It refers to the influence from government institution, strategies of the
political parties, policies of state and local government, and relationship between government
and business organization .Political Environment is important to the manager because: a. It
imposes certain legal constraint on the business.
b. It establishes a market atmosphere that may be pro-business or anti-business.
c. It has the potential to provide stability needed for long term business planning.
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b. Task(Specific) Environment: The specific environment comprise the following factors: i. Customer:
Customer exchange resources, usually in the form of money for a organization’s product and services
.A customer may be individual, a family, a business house or an institution. Customer not only buys
the product or services they also give valuable ideas, opinions information and reaction related to it.
Thus mangers should maintain close relationships with them.
ii. Suppliers: Suppliers are the organizations which provide resources (material, men, machines,
capital etc) t to other business firms. As the quality and price of the raw materials receive
from the suppliers determine the quality of output, the business firms try to obtain lower
prices, better quality work, and faster deliveries. Which strength the competitive position or
an organization.
iii. Government: The role of the government is to regulate business systems and to protect the interest
of the consumers and the general public .It has greater influence on corporate policies,
procedures and business practice of modern organization.
iv. Competitors: It refers to an organization that competes for resources with other organization. The
organization must analyze the competition and establish clearly defined marketing strategy in
order to provide superior customer satisfaction and to increase marketshare.
v. Media: The media keeps eye on the vital decision or actions of the business firm having general
public interest. Therefore managers need to have good communication with both media and
external audiences and deal with them effectively and promptly.
vi. Financial institution: Organization depend on a variety of financial institution such commercial
banks, merchant banks and insurance companies to supply fund for maintaining and
expanding their activities. The term and condition of loans and advances and quality and
promptness of their services have an impact on the performance of a business.
vii. Special interest group: It refers to environmentalist, unions, consumers, advocates, and much
other professional organization. There organizations pressurize the company or business firm
to advance their position and issues like quality service, price, waste management,
environmental protection etc.
According to Griffen:
“Social responsibility is the set of obligations an organization has to protect and enhance the societal context
in which it functions.”
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Social Contribution
Social Reponse
Approaches to social responsibility:
Social Obligation High Social Responsibility
1. Social Obstruction: The organization which performs as low as possible social responsibility. And
sometimes even crosses the ethical boundaries. E.g. adulteration in products. 2. Social Obligation:
The organization which only performs that much social responsibility which are bound by laws. E.g.
writing warning in cigarette packets.
3. Social Response: The organization which performs those activities which are legal and ethical.
Such as providing toothpaste and toothbrush in dental camp, collecting blood for Nepal Red cross
Society etc.
4. Social Contribution: Organization itself participates actively in the development and welfare of the
society. E.g. Building hospitals, schools, conducting skill development programetc.
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3. General Social Welfare: For the perpetual growth and existence, organization should have good
relation with society. This relation can be strengthened by contributing in charities, establishing
health care centers in remote areas, providing jobs etc.
Management Ethics:
Management ethics is a philosophically related with moral conduct, duty, and judgment of our managers.
According to Ricky W. Girffen; “Ethics is an individual’s personal belief about whether a behavior, action or
decision is right and wrong”.
Social Ethics: The values and standard embodies in a society’s laws, customs, practices and norms and values.
Professional Ethics: The value and standard that groups of managers and workers use to decide, how to
behave appropriately.
Individual Ethics: Personal values and standards that results from the influence of family, peers, upbringing
and involvement in significant social institution.
⮚ Ethical behavior enhances the reputations and goodwill of a business. The organization gains
reputation and goodwill when it behaves ethically. Reputation is a valuable asset for a business
firm.
⮚ An organization violating ethical standards faces criticisms and hostility. Such violations also
result in penalty or social boycott of its products.
⮚ Ethical standards of business helps in economic and social development in the society in which it
operates through effective and prudent use of resources, free and fair competition. A climate of
fairness develops, not only in the business, but also in other organizations associated withit.
⮚ By following ethical standards, a business can keep its promises and transparency. It gains
credibility and stability.
⮚ By acting ethically, a business organization can protect the interest of the widersociety. ⮚ A climate
of justice, freedom, equity and equality is created in an organization through ethical practices.
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Economic reforms started by the government during the last two decades have changed the industrial and
business environment significantly. After being Republic State on may 28th 2008, along with changing
political scenario different possibility and challenges of economic development have started to reorganize
in the sharper focus. The ever-growing process of globalization , the presence of multi-nationals in the
market, the open door to import and the obvious shift to a buyer’s market have thrown new demand and
challenges on business firms of the country.
1. Economic Environment: Nepal has adopted a mixed economy where the public and private sectors
freely operate for the overall development of the country. Though we have come to an end of 3
years interim plan (2007-2010) the economic condition had not improved as planned. There are
vast disparities in the income level of the people. The growth rate is below 3% and has heavy
pressure to the low income group because of high inflation rate (i.e. more than 10%).There is
high trade deficit, import from India and China and third countries are increasing rapidly where as
the export to those countries are degrading day by day due to weak and low quality product and
services. Apart from this , the emerging globalization concept( i.e. free flow of goods ,services,
human resources, etc. in-between countries has hit hard to the small and cottage industries. The
brain-drain is also the new challenge for the nation. However, various reform programs in quality
management and export oriented business bring some hope in the development of economic
environment of Nepal.
2. Political and Legal Environment: Since the last 20 years Nepal has been going through a number
of political ups and downs. Unstable government and frequent strike by different political parties
and their sister organization create chaos in the country. The rules and regulation are being
violated by peoples and organizations supported by political parties. Frequent changes in policies
also create more confusion and threats to the existing and newly invested companies. Problems
related to labor unions, employees’ dissatisfaction, human right and civic societies and
professional have not been properly addressed. Apart from that, political parties are not reaching
in a consensus to draft a new constitution for New Nepal.
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system. In Nepal there are very few industries which go side by side with the
increasing improvement in technology. Especially, the financial sector,
telecommunication sector are using latest technology. Whereas agriculture sector,
industrial sector are still show slow pace in improving the functioning of their
activities in using latest technology. There are also financial constraints for small
organization to update their technologies. Apart from that, government also
shows lack of interest in developing efficient and effective method to enhance the
development of new technologies.
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Unit 5
Planning and Decision
Making
Planning
Planning is the primary function of management. It is called primary function because it affects all the other
functions of management. Planning is concerned with deciding in advance that, when, where, why and
how is to be done and who shall do it. Thus, planning is a document stating the goals, outlining the action
oriented strategies to attain these goals, and assigning organizational resources to attain them.
According to Koontz and O’Dennell, “planning is an intellectual process, the conscious determination of
course of action, the basing of decisions on purpose, facts and considered estimates”
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Planning Tactical
Top Planning
managment
Middle
Management Operational Planning
Lower Managment
Strategic
1. Strategic Plan: Strategic plan is also called grand plan. It has a strong external orientation and
covers the total organization. It begins by asking question regarding the purpose or mission and
the operation to which an organization is devoted. Senior executives are responsible for the
development of these plans.
2. Tactical plan: Tactical plans translate broad strategic goals and plans into specific goals and plans.
It mainly focuses on functional areas of the organization. Middle level managers who are
responsible for major division or branches in an organization develop the tactical plan. Tactical
plans focus on the major actions that a unit must take to fulfill its parts of the strategicplan.
3. Operational plan: Operational plans identify the specific procedures and process required at the
lower level of the organization. These plans are prepared by frontline managers and supervisors.
It mainly focuses on daily activities and routine jobs. They translate the tactical objectives into
specific operational activities to be assigned to individual or groups.
Besides above classification, business plans are also classified according to the time period for which they are
established, they are called, long-range, medium range, and short range plans. Similarly, plans are further
classified according to their frequency of use, they are known as standing plans (such as, policy,
procedure rule), and single use plan, (such as, program, project, budget etc)
Hierarchy of plans:
1. Vision: An organization’s vision is a non-specified directional and motivational guidance for the
entire organization. Vision has emotional appeal that encourages people to commit full energies
and mind to achieve it.
2. Mission: An organization’s mission is the purpose and philosophy that will derive organization
over a longer period of time usually fine to ten year. Mission provide reason for being in the
business
3. Goals: Goals provide direction to the activities of an organization. They state how the mission will
be accomplished over the next year or two. They are the targeted ends that management wants to
reach.
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4. Objectives: It is a specific statement of what will be done to achieve a goal. Objectives are more
specified and are measurable than goals. Objectives are expected to be SMART (i.e., specific,
measurable, attainable, rewarding and Timed).
5. Strategies: Strategized are the courses of action which allocate resources in the effective and
efficient way for achieving objectives.
Methods of planning: Managers operating at different management levels are involved in planning.
According to the nature and size of an organization, method of planning varies. Generally, there are
three method of planning. They are:
1. Top-Down Planning: It is also called centralized planning method. Under this method, the central
office or headquarter of an organization develops and provide guidelines, which include, business
definition, mission statement, economic and social objectives, etc. to other branches and levels
accordingly.
2. Button-Up Planning: It is also called decentralize planning method. Under this method middle and
lower level management drafted the plan and presented to the higher level management for its
final approval. Discussion and meeting are held to make critical review and final approval of the
plan at the top management level. This method encourages in participation of lower management
in plan formation and ensures their full commitment.
3. Management by Objectives (MBO): MBO is powerful management tool and is considered as a
strong method of planning. Under this method all levels of management are involve in goal
setting process. The value of MBO is that it communicates the mission, goals, and objectives of
the organization to the lower level managers. Lower level manager’s work out their plans and
target in consultation with their subordinates. These are sent o higher levels for consideration.
This involvement of employees increases their motivation and commitment to their work.
i. The superior and the subordinate meet to discuss and set goals for the subordinate for a specified
period of time.
ii. Both the superior and the subordinate attempt to establish goals that is realistic, challenging, clear,
and comprehensive.
iii. The standards for measuring and evaluating the goals are objectives and agreed upon. The
superior and the subordinate establish some intermediate review dates when the goals will be
re-examined.
iv. The superior plays more of a coaching, counseling and supportive role.
v. The entire process focus on results and on the counseling of the subordinates, and not on activities,
mistakes and organizational requirements
The advantage of MBO is that it blends planning and control function. It emphasizes results
rather than good intensions. MBO encourages self-management and control through
participation and commitment.
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Formulation plans
Implementation of plans
1. Defining mission and goals: Planning process starts with the understanding mission and goals.
Mission and goals direct the organization’s course of action. They maintain organization within
the boundaries of stated mission, and ensure its continuing existence. Thus for effective planning
mission and goals must be clearly defined.
2. Analysis of environmental forces: Environmental forces include both external and internal
components which directly and indirectly affect the overall functioning of an organization.
Planning and strategy development require a thorough analysis of the forces. Management must
know not only the current standing of these forces, but also have a fairly clear idea of where these
forces appear to be headed.
3. Identifying the opportunities and threats: External environment forces create both opportunities
and threat for organization. To identify these opportunities and threat for an organization is also a
step of planning. Plan should be able to capitalize the opportunities and neutralize thethreats.
4. Analyze the organizational resources: organizational resources include its abilities, competencies,
information and other resources that are required to improve organizational performances.
Optimal allocation of resources improves efficiency and effectiveness of an organization. Thus,
these resources should be determined and analyzed in the process of planning.
5. Formulation plans: After completing the above steps the draft for future activities are determined
(i.e., formulating plan). Comprehensive and integrated plans are formulated which covers all the
level of management and their functions.
6. Implementation of plans: After the plans are formulated they are implemented. (i.e., activities
related the plans are performed). In the implementation, manager’s main task is to ensure the
availability of resources and their effective and efficient use and motivate people to complete the
planned activities with the stated time.
7. Evaluation and Control: The final step in planning process is to monitor progress of
implementation. Regular evaluation helps management to understand the deviations and their
causes. Feedback system helps to initiate timely actions and adjustment in the plan.
Importance of Planning:
Planning benefits everybody in the organization. It provides guidance for decision making clarifies role
and responsibilities of employees and is also a means of measuring performance. The importance of
planning is as follows:
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i. Provides direction: Where the organization wants to be in future and what are the activities to be
performed for it are mentioned in planning. Thus, planning is looking ahead, which gives
direction to different level of management in performing organizational activities.
ii. Reduce uncertainty: An organization has to work in an environment which is uncertain and ever
changing. Planning involves forecasting in anticipation of future uncertainties and meets the
future challenges.
iii. Help in coordination: Planning provide the basis for organized and coordinated effort to the
organization. It integrates the individual activities together toward a common goals .Thus it
helps in cooperation and coordination between employees.
iv. Ensure better utilization or resources: Planning primarily ensures the availability of resources as
and when needed. This prevents resources shortage in an organization. A part from this,
better communication and coordination also help in controlling the wastages.
v. Innovation and creativity: Under the ever changing environment, organization growth depends on
the innovative and creative actions of executives. Sound planning encourages innovation
through and creative actions.
vi. Basis of control: The control function of management is directly linked to planning. It measures
progress toward goals and provides information about the causes of success or failure so that
plans may be adjusted for the futures.
vii. Improves competitive strength: Effective planning increase the competitive strength of an
organization. Planning enables the organization to discover new opportunities and thereby
shape its future. It ensures an orderly progress of the organization.
Strategic Planning
(Only wisdom and instinct will not always work to predict the changing environment).
Strategic Planning is a process of determining how to pursue the organization’s long term goals with the
resources expected to be available.
It is a deliberate process that involves the review of market conditions, customer needs, competitive
strengths and weakness and the availability of resources that lead to specific opportunities or thereat
facing the organization.
A strategic planning consists of clearly stated organizational mission, organizational goals and
organizational strategies.
The main features of strategic planning are:
i. Master Planning: It is main corporate plan formulated in head office with the involvement of
(Board of Directors and Chief executive officers) top level management .The plan includes
the details of future course of action in changing environment situation.
ii. Top-down Approach: This plan is formulated by Top-level (especially Plan department) and
disseminate to the other levels for implementation after its ratification.
iii. Highly Prescribed: Strategic planning contains details of roles and responsibilities for branches,
divisions and sub divisions accordingly.
iv. Detailed Control: A centrally controlled mechanism is developed to monitor the activities in
different parts of the organization in-order to implement the strategic planning.
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Environmental Scanning:
Environmental scanning is an important function of strategic management .It is the method or technique
of acquiring information and systematically analyzing the emerging trends in the environment.
According to Wheeler and Hunger; Environment scanning is “monitoring, evaluating, and disseminating
of information from the external and internal environments to key people within the corporation”
The essence of environmental scanning is the identifying relevant environmental changes, monitoring
them to determine their nature and direction, forecasting their rates of change and their likely impact,
and strategically responding to them
i. Extrapolation method: Under this method past data were analyzed to explore the future. Several
statistical tools such as trend analysis, regression analysis are used for analysis. ii. Intuitive reasoning:
Under this method, the scanner used his/her rational intuition to scan the environmental forces.
iii. Scenario Building: Under this method, a situation that could possibly happen is assumed with
logical causes and effect relationship to one another. This relation is use in anticipating the
effect of environmental forces.
iv. Cross-Impact matrix: When two different trends in the environment point to two conflicting
futures, the trends are studied to see their potential impact on each other.
v. Delphi Technique: Under this method, experts opinion is taken individually through several
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solicitation and feedback .The opinion are used to forecast the changing
SWOT (Strengths, Weakness, Opportunities, and Threats) analysis is very important tool in formulating a
strategy. It is used at corporate level or business units and frequently appears in marketing plans. It
provides a clear picture of an organization’s position in the market.
S- Strength: Strength is resources, skills or other advantages relative to competitors. Market Leadership,
Public Image, Experience, Financial and Human Resources, Organizational network, etc are strengths of
an organization.
W-Weakness: Weakness are the limitations which seriously affect the organization’s performance .Lack of
infrastructure, weak marketing skill, low capital etc are the weaknesses of an organization.
O-Opportunities: It is a situation which is in favor of an organization; New Market, Higher economic growth,
reduction in competition, etc. are the examples of opportunities.
T-Threats: A threat is a situation which does not favour an organization. The Entry of new competitor, change
in technology, increase of bargaining power of suppliers and customers etc. are the examples of threats.
SWOT analysis provides a useful framework for making the best strategic choice. The best strategy can be
seen as an optimal match between the external opportunities and threats and the organizational strength
and weakness. A SWOT matrix shows the framework of matching.
Internal Factors Internal Strengths(S) Internal Weaknesses(W)
e.g. strengths in e.g. weaknesses in finance,
management, operations, operation, R&D, engineering
External Factors finance, marketing , R&D, etc.
engineering etc.
SO Strategy (Maxi-Maxi): At this stage the organization has high strength and has several environmental
opportunities. Organization adopts aggressive strategy to capitalize the opportunities.
ST Strategy (Maxi-Mini): At this stage organization’s key strength face environmental threats. Organization
formulates long term programmes; diversify business by utilizing to minimize the threats in this situation.
WO Strategy (Mini-Max): In this stage, organization faces impressive market opportunities but is limited by
several internal weaknesses. This organization should eliminate its weakness to exploit the market
opportunities.
WT Strategy (Mini-Mini): Under this stage, both weakness and threats are in the organization’s environment.
Organization should call for defensive strategy to minimize weakness and neutralize the threat.
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Formulation of Strategic Plans:
Strategic plans formulation is a process of decision making in order to define a firm’s future direction. It
includes developing a vision and mission, identifying an organization’s external opportunities and threats,
determining internal strengths and weaknesses, establishing long-term objectives, generating alternative
strategies, and choosing particular strategies to pursue.
Implementing strategic plan affects everything from top to bottom level in an organization. If affects all
the functional and divisional area of a business.
The McKinsey 7-S framework is useful to describe how strategic plan needs an integrated framework in
the process of its implementation.
Structure Strategy
Skills Staff
According to figure the process of strategic plan implementation requires the following:
1. PERT (Program Evaluation and Review Technique) or Network Technique: The PERT is used as a
tool of project planning. It is a flow chart diagram that shows the sequence of activities need to
complete a project and the time or cost associated with each activity. To apply the PERT it is
essential to know about events, activities, slack time and critical path.
i. Events: They are the end points of activities.
ii. Activities: They represent the time or resources to complete on event to another. iii. Slack
Time: It represents the amount of time that can be delayed in some activity without delaying the
project.
iv. Critical Path: It is a longest and time consuming sequence of events and sequence of events
and activities.
PERT Network
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In the network above there are 8 events and activities. The critical path represents the longest weeks
14 (2, 3, 6, 1, 2) required to complete the total 8 activities.
2. Break Even Analysis: Break Even (BE) Analysis is also called Cost-Volume Profit Analysis. It
gives information about price and profit decision .The objective of BE analysis is to determine the
quantity at which the product or services will generate enough revenue to start earning aprofit.
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In the above figure, the area between AO is loss area because cost of output is higher than revenue. The point
C is known as Break Even Point (BEP).The DE area is profit area resulting from the earning of higher
revenues compare to the costs.
Activity 1
Activity 2
Activity 3
Activity 4
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Decision Making
A decision may be defined as a choice made from available alternatives. It represents a course of action about
what must be done or must not be done.
Decision making is defined as the conscious process of selection a course of action among several alternatives to
achieve a desired goal or solve problems.
1. Identifying and diagnosing the problem: Decision making process start when there is a problem
occurs in an organization. Problem definition is an initial step in decision making. Problem
should be accurately identified and thoroughly diagnosed so that corrective action can be under
taken. E.g. declining sales: It may be due to the poor product development or inadequate
advertising and sales promotion or any other reasons. Therefore, a decision maker has to collect
relevant information, use his diagnostic skill effectively and recognize the problems properly.
2. Generating possible alternatives: At this step decision maker should try to generate all the possible
alternative solutions to the problems. Relevant information is gathered, analyzed by using their
knowledge, skill and experiences to generate possible alternatives. It can be costly and time
consuming operation. Typically, the more important the problem situation the more time and
effort can be spent for the exploration of alternative solutions.
3. Evaluation of alternatives: After generating the alternatives the next step is to evaluate each
alternative. It is important to establish some common framework to evaluate each alternative to
assure consistency. Manager must ascertain, whether or not alternative is feasible and practical?
If an alternative is not feasible it should be eliminated and vice-versa.
4. Selection of best alternative: After evaluating each alternative the best alternative which contribute
maximum to the organizational goal is selected. Important reason for choosing one alternative
over the other are as follows:
i. It is less expensive.
ii. It takes less time.
iii. It will be more effective.
iv. It will be preferred by employees.
v. It will result in greater productivity.
5. Implement the selected alternative: Implementing means putting the selected solution to work. The
ultimate success of an alternative depends on its ability to be translated into action. All concerned
parties should be well communicated and their full cooperation for the implementation should be
obtained.
6. Evaluating and Controlling: It is the final step of decision making process. After decision has been
implemented, their progress should be constantly monitored and evaluated. If there are any
differences between the decision and the problem, the decision maker may restart the decision
making process by setting a new goal.
1. Classical Model
2. Administrative Model
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1. Classical Model: This approach to decision making is influenced by the thinking of the classical
theorists, such as: Taylor, Fayol, and Weber etc. It is a prescriptive approach that is based on
critical economic assumption. This model is essentially a theory of decision making under
condition of certainty. It is based on the following assumptions.
i. The manager seeks to attain objectives that are both known and agreed upon. ii.
Targeted problems are precisely defined.
iii. The manager posses full information relation to the problem.
iv. All alternative solutions to problems and their potential results can be calculated. v. The
manager is rationale and logical in assigning values, evaluation alternatives and making
decisions.
vi. The manger will select the alternative that maximizes return to the organization or
attainment of organizational goals.
This model however is based on defective logic and reasoning .In real life situation these assumptions
cannot be met. Hence, this model is an idealistic explanation of decision making.
This model can probably be most helpful when used for programmed decision or for decisions made
in risk where outcome probabilities can be calculated.
2. Administrative Model: Herbert A. Simon develops the administrative model of decision making to
deal with the condition (uncertain and non- programmed) that mangers usually face. Simon’s
model is based on two concepts: Bounded rationality and Satisficing.
The decision maker’s rationality is limited or bounded by inherently individualized beliefs, values,
attitudes, skills, habits and unconscious reflexes. It is also limited by the complexity of the
organization, environment, available information, amount of time and money needed etc. So due
to these constraints the decisions maker rarely tries to find the optimum solution to a decision
problem.
By satisficing the decision maker selects the first solution alternative hat satisfied some minimal set
of outcome expectation. In other words, instead of conduction an exhaustive search the decision
maker looks for a limited number of alternatives. Hence, the decision maker satisfices rather than
optimizes and makes decision which he consider satisfactory in terms of his own or
organizationally determined criteria.
Types of Decision
Decisions are taken at various levels of management. Such decisions made in organization can be
classified according to their frequency and nature.
1. According to their frequency, decision are classified as programmed and non programmed
decisions
a. Programmed decisions: Most decision making that related to the day to day running of an
organization is called programmed decision making. Such decisions are taken by middle
or lower level and are repetitive and routine type. Decision maker knows in advance what
decision he/she has to take in a particular set of condition. In most organization
programmed decisions are handled through policies, rules or standard procedures which
have been set by top executives.
b. Non-Programmed decisions: Decision are called non-programmed when they are made for
novel, non-recurring and unstructured problems. They often deal with complex issues
that demand data gathering, forecasting and strategic planning. Such decisions are taken
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by the top executives. E.g. Opening a branch in locality, launching a new product, establishing
strategic alliances etc.
2. According to nature, classification of decisions are as follows:
a. Operating decisions (internal): Operating decisions are day to day decisions which aim at
maximizing the efficiency and profitability of the organization’s current operation. These
decisions are deal with internal issues such as production schedule, inventory level,
operational monitoring and control. Low level manger takes such decisions.
b. Strategic decisions; Strategic decisions focus on issues external to the organization. These
decisions deal with problems such as the goal and objective of the organization selection of a
product market-mix, strategies for diversification, investment and expansion etc. These
decisions are centralized and are responsibility of top level management.
c. Administrative decisions: Administrative decisions act as a bridge between operative and
strategic decisions. They deal with issues such as rules, procedures, information flows,
reward system, acquiring resources etc. Mostly middle level managers are involved in the
kind of decisions.
How a manager decides in an organization determines the organization’s future. The way of taking decision
varies with manager behaviour or style. Managers’ decision making styles differ along two dimensions viz.
individual way of thinking and tolerance for ambiguity.
Analytic Conceptual
Directive Behavioural
Way of Thinking
Rational Intuitive
Low
a. Directive Style: Decision makers using directive style have low tolerance for ambiguity and are
rational in their way of thinking. They are efficient and logical. Directive types make fast
decisions and focus on the short run. Their efficiency and speed in making decisions often result
in their making decision with minimal information and assessing few alternatives.
b. Analytic style: Decision makers with an analytic style have much greater tolerance for ambiguity
than do directive type. They want more information before making a decision and consider more
alternatives than a directive decision maker does. Analytic decision makers are characterized as
careful decision makers with the ability to adapt with unique situations.
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c. Conceptual style: Individual with a conceptual style tends to be very broad in their outlook and
look at many alternatives. They focus on the long run and are very good at finding creative
solutions to problems.
d. Behavioural Style: Decision makers with a behaviour style work well with others. They are
concerned about the achievements of those around them and are receptive to suggestions from
others. They often use meeting to communicate, although they try to avoid conflict. Acceptance
by others is important to this decision making style.
Although these four decision making styles are distinct, most mangers have characteristics of more than one
style. It’s probably more realistic to think of a manger’s dominant style and alternative style.
The way of decision making is different in different circumstances by the same individual. In other words,
style of decision making would differ as the situation changes. There are five most common styles of
making decisions they are as follows:
A. Autocratic:
i. Style I: The manger solves the problems or makes the decisions himself/herself by using
information available to him/her at that time.
ii. Style II: The manager obtains the necessary information from him/her sub-ordinates and then
decides on the situations to the problems himself/herself.
B. Consultative:
i. Style III: The manger shows the problem with relevant subordinates individually, getting their ideas
and suggestions without bringing them together as a group. The decision may or may not
reflect his/her sub-ordinates influences.
ii. Style IV: The manger shares the problem with his/her subordinates as a group, collectively
obtaining their ideas and suggestions. The decision may or may not reflect his/her sub
ordinates influences.
C. Group Processes:
i. Style V: The manger shares the problem with his/her sub-ordinates as a group. Together he/she
generates and evaluates alternatives and attempts to reach agreement (consensus). Manager
accepts and implements solution that has the support of the entire group.
Decision making takes place under different conditions. These conditions are grouped into three categories.
They are as follows:
i. Condition of certainty
ii. Condition of Risk
iii. Condition of uncertainty
i. Condition of certainty: A state of certainty exists only when mangers know the available
alternatives as well as the conditions and consequences of those actions. E.g. to buy a vehicle,
organization can collect all the information related to vehicle and buy it after comparing the
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specification of vehicle and the need of the organization. Thus, it is simple and easy to take
decision under condition of certainty.
ii. Condition of risk: A state of risk exists when the manger is aware of all alternatives, but is
unaware of the consequences. In other words, risk exists when the probability of an action
being less than 100 percent. Certain degree of risk is always associated under this condition
of decision making.
iii. Condition of uncertainty: Uncertainty means that mangers do not have enough information about
the environment to understand or predict the future. Under condition of uncertainty, little is
known about the alternative or their outcomes. This situation arises when the level of
ambiguity is higher at the time of making decision. The decision maker should use his/her
intuition, judgment and experience in making decisions under condition of uncertainty.
Problem solving is defined as the use of information to minimize the deviation between current and the
desired situation. In other words, problem solving is the way of selecting alternative, resolving disputes
and making the optimum choice.
Types of problems:
Problems can be classified on the basis of;
i. Frequency
ii. Urgency
iii. Impact
iv. Sources
i. Frequency: Problem can be classified on the basis of their frequency of occurrence. Theyare; a.
Routine Problem: This type of problem occurs on a regular basis. E.g. problem related to
power supply, machine breakdown, order cancellation etc. Such problem can be foreseen and
solved through established policies, rules and regulations.
b. Exceptional Problem: It occurs occasionally. E.g. the sudden appearance of strong
multinational competitors in the market. Management must use their experience, skill etc
to tackle this type of problem.
ii. Urgency: Under this basis of urgency problems are classified into urgent and non urgent problems.
a. Urgent Problem: This problem which must be solved immediately. E.g. machine
breakdown may cause problem in production unit. Such problem needs to be addressed
and solved as soon as possible.
b. Non-Urgent Problem: Such problem allows the manger to take their time to consult other,
develop alternatives, and decide on a course of action.
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iv. Source: Under the source, the problem is classified as technical and human. a. Technical Problem:
Those problems related to material, suppliers, equipments, production etc lie under this type.
Such problem should be identified and controlled at time.
b. Human Problem: It is a behavioral problem of human beings. Such as employee
motivation, dissatisfactions, conflict etc. These problems are serious problems and should
be addressed effectively in an organization.
Solving a problem is an essential skill of mangers. They must have knowledge to identify and define
the problem, which enable them to solve it effectively.
Judith G. Bulin (1996) suggests the following strategies which can be used by managers for solving
the problems.
1. Separate the person from the problem: Allow the person to express frustration and then try to
identify the real problem. Focus the conversation on solving the problem, not placingblame. 2.
Listen Carefully: Listen to the whole problem and ask question to clarify before responding
.Listen not only for what has been said, but also for what has been avoided. 3. Get as much
information as possible: Be sure to identify all the issues and talk to others, who are involved
before making a decision.
4. Explore alternative solution: Ask for suggestion for solving the problem from those who are
close to it. Solutions suggested by those involved are less likely to meet resistance when
implemented.
5. Decide what to do: Get agreement and understanding from those involved about what will
happen next. Select an acceptable alternative that will likely to achieve the desired results and
proceed slowly.
6. Create accountability: Define who will be responsible for each phase of the process and be
sure that everyone knows what each person will do and by when.
7. Monitor progress: Be sure to check if the plan is working. Be flexible and open to making
adjustment as needed to accomplish your objectives.
8. Give credit where it is due: Be sure to recognize the contribution of those involved in
resolving the problems.
Crisis Handling
In the process of implementing decisions something may happen unexpectedly so that decision maker has no
choice than to change the given alternative in the situation of crisis. A crisis is a serious problem. It is a
problem of greater intensity and wider implication. It threatens the organization’s ability tofunction.
Lack of planning, reluctance to deal with conflict, ignoring problems and its timely solution are the causes of
crisis situation. The effects of crisis can be devastating to an organization so it must be handled
effectively.
i. Warning: Prior to crisis, some warning signal appear. Managers should identify such warning signal
early and prevent crisis. This can be done through regular monitoring of the operations and
establishing open communication channel.
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ii. Preparation and Prevention: In this phase, systematically search for potential problem and their
precautionary measure are identified and defined to prevent crisis. Preparation for handling
crisis is done through proper planning, training and drilling of staffs etc.
iii. Damage limitation: Damage limitation is done through careful analysis and advanced preparation.
iv. Recovery: The crisis problem should be addressed as quickly as possible so that the organization
can be recovered and put back into track.
v. Organizational Learning: Why did the crisis occur? What are the causes? What can be done to
prevent future problem? Managers should learn from the problems and the way to handle
them, so that similar problem or crisis will not arise in future.
Crisis management means that managers try to anticipate the unexpected through contingency
plans to cope with possible crisis. The three crucial steps in crisis management are as follows:
i. Anticipating: The manager must try to understand the possible source of crisis to manage
them. Manager can anticipate crises by analyzing both the work and the people for
whom they are responsible.
ii. Contingency Planning: A contingency plan is a course of action to follow if some
unexpected events occur. The plan should specify warning signals or source of
information to be monitored.
iii. Practicing: Once the contingency plan is developed, it is necessary to be sure that these
would be practiced in case of the need.
Advantages:
Disadvantages:
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1. Brain- Storming: It is a useful technique for generating ideas about possible causes of problems,
and about potential solution to problems, once they have been identified. The objective of brain
storming is to generate pool of ideas on a particular subject. The technique of brain storming
includes a strict series of rules. They are as follows;
a. No idea is too ridiculous. Group members are encouraged to state any extreme or outlandish
idea.
b. Each idea presented belongs to the group , not to the person stating it. In this way, it is hoped
that group members will utilize and build on the ideas of other.
c. No idea can be criticized.
d. The good ideas are selected later.
2. Delphi Technique: A Delphi technique is a systematic means to obtain consensus from a group or
panel of experts. In this technique participants are asked to give their ideas, suggestions and
views on the decisional problem. All responses are transcribed into a single document and the
results are sent back to the panel members and then again their reactions to others’ views, ideas
and suggestions are collected. The name of the participants is kept anonymous. A panel
coordinator contacts each participant usually by mail questionnaire. After obtaining consensus,
from the expert panel the decision will be made.
3. The Nominal Group Technique (NGT) : NGT is a structured group meeting that proceed as
follows:
A group of individuals (7 to 10) sit around a table but do not speak to one another. The problem is
presented to them and they write their reactions, ideas, suggestions, and views on a sheet of
paper. After this process is over, structured sharing of ideas takes place. Each person around the
table presents his/her ideas. A person designated as recorder writes the ideas of various members
on a blackboard. At the end of it, there is a list of ideas open for discussion. Each idea is
discussed fully before moving on to the next one. The next stage involves independent voting in
which each participant selects priorities by ranking or voting and final decision is made by the
majority of the votes cast.
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d. Selecting a product mix in a manufacturing plant to make the best use of machine and labor hours available
while maximizing the firm’s profit.
2. Probability: Probability is a statistical measure of the chance that a certain event will occur. It deals with the
rational calculation of chances of specific outcomes from a course of action. Nowadays the use of probability
calculation has been increased in decision making to calculate likelihood of certain events and to supply an
estimate of the gain or loss for a decision that assist the manger in selecting the best decision for a given set of
circumstances.
3. Queuing: Queuing theory is also called waiting theory .It is a mathematical decision-making technique for solving
waiting –line problems. The main objective of this theory is to minimize the losses caused from waiting. This
technique helps to take decision to minimize the line of customers, waiting to get the services from the
organization.
4. Decision Tree: This technique is based on probability factors. A decision tree is a representation in graphic form of
a number of possible futures events that may affect a decision. It is used to identify the strategy most likely to
reach the goal. It shows all possible courses of action, their values, and the best return that can be produced. Thus,
it enables the decision maker to evaluate alternatives in terms of the best estimates of future results.
5. Game Theory: Game theory is used to give reality to the situation. It is concerned with the formulation of a
strategy against the competitor. This theory assumes that business situation have a strong similarity with games.
Business games are played to formulate strategy that will provide maximum countering action. The outcome of
the game is readiness of mangers to respond to the action of competitors. The mangers should try to know what a
competitors’ strategy is, as well as the outcome of ever possible move that a competitor can make. This technique
is thus, useful to analyze behavior of the competitors.
6. Operation Research: It is the application of scientific or mathematical methods to analysis and evaluation of
alternative solution to a problem situation. It consists of bringing together available data on a specific problem,
processing these data and obtaining quantitative reports of various potential courses of action. Thus, it provides
data to the decision maker in choosing the solution which best satisfied the goals.
7. Simulation: Simulation is the process of experimentation with a model of some real system or situation in order to
gain understanding or solve a problem in the real world. It is a means of gaining artificial experience through the
use of model that gives the appearance or effect of reality. Thus, simulation models are empirical and not
mathematical like operation research model. It is basically a systematic trial and error approach to complex
problems.
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Unit 6
Organizing
Organizing is related to designing and assigning jobs for individuals to work more effectively and
efficiently.
Organizing refers to grouping of jobs, allocating jobs in divisions and units, assigning people to work,
delegation of authority and responsibility to achieve a common goal.
According to Allen, Organizing refers to,” The process of identifying and grouping the work to be
performed, defining and delegating responsibility and authority and establishing a pattern of relationship
for the purpose of enable people to work most effectively together in accomplishing objectives.”
Organizing is more related to structuring relations between people, jobs and organization through
designing jobs, grouping them into manageable units and determines job related responsibility of
individuals.
Principles of Organizing
Organizing is one of the major functions of management. It is performed by all mangers and it is a
continuous process. The principle of organizing has to do with the grouping of organizational activities
into various units and dividing responsibility and authority accordingly. Some of the widely practiced
principles are as follows:
1. Objective: An objective is an end or goal to be achieved. The goals and objectives must be clearly
defined for the entire organization for each department and even for each position in the
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organization structure. Once the objectives have been clearly defined, organizing function
become easier.
2. Specialization or division of Labor: The concept of division of work is based on the principle of
specialization and efficiency. Specialization helps to break down overall task of organization ad
divide it into the smaller component parts. Greater output can be obtained when each person
concentrates on doing the thing for which he/she is best qualified.
3. Span of control: Span of control represents a numerical limit of subordinates to be supervised or
controlled by a manger. It is believed that organizational efficiency is increased by limiting the
span of control at any point in the hierarchy to a small number.
4. Scalar Chain: The chain of supervisors ranging from the top management to the lowest rank
managers should be clearly defined. The chain of command should be short and clear which
makes decision making and communication more effective.
5. Unity of Command: In organizing activities, it is better when an employee receives orders from
only one supervisor. Direction from several superiors may result in confusion, chaos, conflict and
indiscipline.
6. Delegation of authority: Proper authority should be delegated at all level of management. The
authority delegated should be equal to responsibility so as to enable each manager to accomplish
the task assign to him/her.
7. Responsibility: Once authority is given, managers have to be responsible for their actions. They
are also responsible for the action of their subordinates.
8. Efficiency: The organization structure should enable to function efficiently and accomplish
organizational goals/ objectives with the lowest possible cost. Hence it should ensure optimum
utilization of all resources.
9. Simplicity: The organization should be kept as simple as possible. A complex organization means
difficulty of communication and coordination.
10. Flexibility: Since, external environment always changes, it is necessary to cope up with the
changing environment. Organizational structure should be flexible enough to cope up with the
changes in the external environment.
11. Balance: There should be a reasonable balance in the size of various departments and between
centralization and decentralization. Imbalances creates problem to achieve its goals for an
organization in an effective and efficient way.
12. Unity of Direction: There should be one objective and one plan for a group of activities having
the same objective. A boss with many objectives will create chaos. Thus unity of direction
facilitates verification and coordination of activities.
13. Staffing: Staffing principle focuses on employing, rewarding and developing people in the
organization to motivate them in order to work in the direction to achieve organizationalgoals.
Approaches to Organizing
The Approaches to organizing have considerable influence on organizing thought and practice. Some of
these approaches are as follows:
1. Classical Approach:
Taylor, Henry Fayol, and Max Weber, were major contributors to the classic approach to
organizational design. Though, their prescriptions and approaches to organizing are different,
they all advocate ”universal principles” of organizing. They attempt to specify the “one best way”
toorganizing.
F.W. Taylor believed that the key to organizing is to scientifically design the job. Taylor’s ideas
on organizing are as follows:
a. Scientific approach to work by determining optimal workload laid by breaking down the job
into smaller components.
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b. Incentive for reward by designing incentive system in which the workers receive more pay for
more output.
c. Separation of planning from performance by dividing work between management and workers.
Management should undertake planning, standard setting, and supervising activities. Workers, on
the other-hand, should concentrate on physical and operational aspects of the jobs.
Max Weber is remembered for his work on bureaucracy. The bureaucratic organization has to the
following components.
a. Unity of command
b. Scalar chain
c. Authority and responsibility
d. Unity of Direction
His assumptions were that, good management is able to motivate workers to perform according to
management guidelines and expectation. If worker fail to produce the fault lies with management. Thus,
he developed fourteen principles to make manger aware of their responsibilities and better at executing
them.
2. Behavioral Approach:
Behavioral approach to organizing focuses on employee behavior. It points out the people deserve to be
the central focus of any organized activity. This approach believes that successful management depends
largely on manager’s ability to understand and work with people, who have a variety of backgrounds,
needs, perceptions, and aspirations. Thus, while scientific management concentrated on physical aspects
of the job, behavioral approach concentrated on the social aspects of the job.
The following persons are the major contributors in the development of behavioral approach:
a. Elton Mayo’s human relations approach highlighted the” people side” of an organization .His
studies found that the social context of work, including group norms and interpersonal relation is
very important for organizing work activities.
b. Douglas McGregor’s Theory X and Theory Y reflect two extreme beliefs sets that, different
managers have about their workers.
c. The researchers at the Tavistock Institute of Technology in England developed the socio technical
systems approach. Similarly, John Woodward developed the task-technology approach. These
approaches explain the consequences of different types of technical and organizational forms for
job satisfaction and workgroup behavior. These approaches integrate the two important
sub-systems the technical (task) subsystem and the social subsystem.
d. Chris Argyris propose the Personality and Organization Theory. He argued that each individual has
some potential, which can be realized give the right environment. He suggested that to
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achieve a balance between structures and people’s needs, there should be flexible roles, open
communication, and reliance on self-direction.
e. David McClelland, Fred Fiedler, and Frederic Herzberg provided manger with still greater insights
into employee behavior through their motivation and leadership theories.
The behavioral approach has thus, contribute a wealth of important ideas on people-management aspect
of an organization. This approach makes it clear that people are the key to organizing andproductivity.
Systems and contingency approaches have some common viewpoints on organizing. Both the approaches
are concerned with the interrelationships among organizational elements and between organization and
the environmental element. The systems approach is valuable to mangers as it helps them to conceptualize
the flow and interaction of various elements of the organization.
The contingency approach to organizing is logical. Organizations obviously differ in size, objective, and
environmental uncertainty. Similarly, employees of these organizations differ in values, attitudes, needs,
and experiences. So it is not wise to talk about universally applicable approaches that work in all
situations. The Following variables are mainly considered by the contingency approach.
a. Study of Jobs: The first step in the process of organizing structure involves study of jobs and
elements to perform activities.
b. Grouping of Jobs (Departmentalization): Once a number of jobs are identified, it is necessary to
group them according to the functional requirement. Some jobs may belong to production
department, while the others may belong to marketing department. Thus, grouping of jobs can be
made on functional, process or product basis.
c. Division of Labor: Once jobs are grouped, they are performed with the help of labor. The division
of labor helps to maximize outputs and machines. In the process of division of labor, large tasks
are divided into smaller packages and assigned to labor according to their skill andtraining.
d. Deciding on organization design: Organizations follow different structures. Some organizations
follow a mechanic design whereas others follow a organic design. A mechanically designed
organization will be more rigid, hierarchic and rely on rules and regulation..On the contrary, an
organic organizational structure is highly adaptive, flexible, and participative in nature. What type
of design is selected also depends on contingency factors such as size, technology and degree of
environmental uncertainty.
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e. Coordination of activities: Although activities are grouped and work is divided accordingly, it is
essential to establish coordination of these activities. The role of a leader or supervisor is vital to
coordinate activities. Both inter and intra departmental coordination is essential for the
completion of given tasks and finally to achieve organizational activities.
Departmentalization-Meaning
{Divide (an organization or its work) into departments}
Departmentalization is the process by which jobs are grouped and allocated in different departments to
different groups according to the need of the organization. In this process jobs are grouped according to
some logical arrangement on the basis of functions, products or geographical requirements.
Method of Departmentalization
Departmentalization is required in organizations employing a large number of employees. There are
several bases for departmentalization each of which is suitable for particular corporate -size, strategies
and purposes. They are as follows:
Advantages:
∙ It encourages professional identity and clarifies career paths among managers. Since,
managers work in special division, they develop specific expertise by specializing in the
activities of the departments.
∙ In this structure, there is possibility of direct supervision. Since managers are experts in
functional areas, employees approach them with common problems and issues.
∙ Under the structure, it is easy to develop a pool qualified managers to take future
responsibility.
∙ The chief executive will remain familiar ad in direct and frequent contact with functional
managers to deal with different issues and problems.
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Disadvantages:
∙ Since all employees focus on a single unit’s goal, they may be less concerned about the
organizational goals. In other words, different units work less on common goals that
is more important than their conflicting departmental or individual goals.
∙ Divisional managers are more concerned with their routine activities rate rather than
total issues of the firm.
Advantages:
∙ It would be easy to group all jobs for a product that facilitate coordination and integration within a
product department.
∙ Managers of concerned product department can make prompt decision.
∙ Divisional performance can be controlled and evaluated without much difficulty. ∙
Healthy competition among the division of resources can enhance effectiveness.
Disadvantages:
∙ People working in one department care only one product and regard less about problems of rest of
the organization.
∙ One department specialist concentrates only on in his or her department, but not in other
departments even if s/he knows the problems of other departments.
∙ When organization employs different specialists in different departments, the operation costs will
rise.
∙ Because of too many divisions, such structure may create complexity.
3. Departmentalization by Customer/Client: Under this structure, work activities are organized
around specific customers. The main focus of this form of departmentalization is to serve
different types of clients or customers effectively. Therefore, emphasis is give to customers’ types
and needs. E.g. a commercial bank may divide its loan department into a number of sections each
specializing in loans to traders, industrialists, agriculturist etc.
Advantages:
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Disadvantages:
∙ The main problem with this structure is that it duplicates and under uses resources. Under this
type of structure the divisional specialists relating to sales, manufacturing and distributing are
spread throughout the various units.
∙ It tends to reduce cooperation across groups. Because specialists are organized just to maximize
their benefits, there will be problem in acquiring resources among different managers in a
multidivisional structure.
∙ With this structure, there will be too many divisions and therefore, complexity will rise. With
the rise in the number of departments chances of cooperation will be low.
Advantages:
Disadvantages:
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Disadvantages:
Similarly, Authority is the right to act or command others to act towards the attainment of organizational
goals.(S.P. Robbins)
Features:
Responsibility: It is an obligation of individual to perform assigned duties to the best of his ability under the
direction of his executive leaders.(Davis)
Features:
Accountability: It is the obligation of an individual to report formally to his superior about the work he
has to done to discharge the responsibility. (Mc. Farland)
It is the obligation to carry out responsibility and exercise authority in terms of performance standards
established. ( L Allen)
Features:
Delegation of Authority
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Delegation of authority is one vital organization process. It is inevitable along with the expansion and
growth of the business organization. Delegation means assigning of duty or task with necessary
authority by superior to subordinates.
In other words, Delegation is the transfer of authority to subordinates to enable them to make
decisions and use resources.
According to Griffin.” Delegation is the process by which a manager assigns a portion of his or her
total work load to others”
1. It provides managers the opportunity to seek and accept increased responsibility from higher- level
management.
2. It reduces the workload to top management. It can concentrate on important and strategic issues.
3. It causes employees to accept accountability and exercise judgment.
4. It leads to better decisions, because the decision maker is close to place of action and has a clearer
view of facts.
5. It is an important method of developing managers and staffs in decision making. This also creates in
them a sense of accountability.
1. Parity of Authority and Responsibility: There must be balance between authority delegated and
responsibility created. Since responsibility without authority makes managers ineffective and
authority without responsibility makes managers irresponsible in their acts.
2. Unity of command: There must be one boss for one sub-ordinate.
3. Scalar Chain: Authority should be delegated from top to bottom.
4. Result oriented: Authority should be delegated to accomplish expected goals.
5. Absolute Responsibility: Responsibility cannot be delegated. Superior from whom the authority is
delegated is also responsible for the act of the subordinates to whom the authority isdelegated. 6.
Management by exception: Except the major or exceptional matters, all the decision making
under the converge of authority should be taken by the subordinates to whom the authority is
delegated.
7. Acceptance: Subordinates should show willingness to accept authority and consider one-self
responsible and accountable for it.
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3. The fear of competition from lower level is also a barrier to effective delegation. Some managers
fear that their subordinates do better job than what they do.
4. Employees may be reluctant (unwilling) to accept additional responsibility, as there are no extra
monetary gains for such additional work.
Centralization
When top-management retains power and authority without delegating to the subordinates in planning
and decision making matters, it is called centralization.
Advantages of Centralization:
Terry and Franklin (2005) mention the following advantages of centralized structure:
Disadvantages of Centralization:
Decentralization
It means the decentralization of power of decision making to the level where the work is to be
performed. In other words, It is the systematic distribution of authority to the lowest levels of the
organization.
According to Koontz and Weihrich,: “ Decentralization a the tendency to disperse decision
making authority in an organized structure”
Advantages of Decentralization:
1. Encourage other managers to make decision and take authority and responsibility.
2. Motivates employees at work.
3. Develops skills of managers and ensures their growth.
4. Coordination of activities can be increased.
5. Facilitates product diversification.
Disadvantages of decentralization:
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delegation. compulsory.
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Decentralization can be called as extension of delegation. When delegation of authority is done to the
fullest possible extent, it gives use to decentralization.
Coordination of activities
According to Griffin:” coordination is the process of linking activities of the various departments of the
organizations”
Purpose of coordination: Coordination is very important for effective management in an organization. The
main reasons for coordination are:
I. Line Structure: It is the oldest and simple form of organization structure. It is also known as scalar or
military type of structure. In this structure authority is passed down from top management to
middle managers in the process for discharging the given responsibility and from them it goes
down to supervisors and then workers. In this structure each person has one superior to whom
he/she reports and looks for instructions. Thus, a single specific chain of command exists.
Advantages:
Disadvantages:
1. Lack of specialization.
2. Only useful in small organization and big organization where strong discipline need to be
maintained.
3. Centralization of authority at the top level may lead to autocratic behavior.
4. Chances of nepotism and favoritism
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Advantages:
1. Use of experts facilitates decision making and specilzation.
2. Fewer burden to line managers.
3. Improvement in operational efficiency.
Disadvantages:
1. Chances of Conflict.
2. Increases cost.
3. Difficulty in adopting creative ideas.
4. Heavy inclination on staff specialist may decreases the effectiveness of line managers.
III. Committee Structure: A committee organization refers to the structure where authority and
responsibility are jointly held by a group of individual rather than by single managers.
-Almost all big organization has committee structure.
-Formed for better communication and coordination.
Advantages:
1. People accept group decision.
2. Motivation and commitment.
3. Participatory in nature.(autonomy to participate)
4. Dealing with complex problems.
Disadvantages:
Advantages:
Disadvantages:
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1. Due to lack of clearly defined authority conflict may appear between foreman and superior.
2. It lacks unity of command. One worker has to obey orders of several bosses sand has to be
responsible to all.
3. Delay in decision making.
4. There is no provision of formal relationship among the functional specialist which may lack
mutual coordination among them.
V. Matrix Structure: Matrix organization is also called project organization, gird organization or
multiple command system. In this structure, functional and departmental forms overlap. Matrix
design features a multiple command structure in which one individual may have any number of
superior including one functional and one or more project managers.
-essential for :- rapid change in environment, face uncertainties
-high information-processing requirement.
-financial and HR constraints.
Advantages:
1. Efficient use of resources.
2. Flexibility
3. Improve in decision quality.
4. Opportunities for personal development.
Disadvantages:
1. Team Structure: Team is considered today as the most effective means to organize work activities.
Team members are allowed to make decision on selection of inputs, scheduling and allocating
tasks among members training and development, performance evaluation and controlling. The
team based environment enhances performs reduces stress and promotes the climate of creativity
and innovation in the organization.
2. Virtual Organization: this is also called network organization where organization creates a network
of relationship that allows them to contract out almost all managerial function distribution,
marketing, account keeping, staff management and other function. If management feels that
outside can undertake these function in a better and cheaper ways, such function are outsourced.
Since, most of the functions are outsourced and very little function is performed, so it is called
virtual organization.
3. Boundary less organization: Boundary less organization are composed of people who are linked by
computers, faxes, computer aided design systems and video teleconferencing. They rarely see
one another face-to-face. People are utilized when their services are needed, but they are not
formal members of organization. They are functional experts who forms and alliance within an
organization, to fulfill their contractual obligation.
4. Learning Organization: Learning Organization refers to those organizations which have developed
the capacity to continuously learn, adapt and change. A learning organization
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accumulates knowledge from the past experience, learning across parts of the company and
learning from other companies .It creates an environment to unlock the knowledge of people
working in the organization. People are encouraged to share information and knowledge so that
they can easily contribute to a changed goal in learning organization.
Staffing Function
Staffing function is assumed great importance in recent years due to increase in the size of the
organization, rapid advancement of technology and the complex behavior of human beings.
Staffing one of the managerial functions which is concerned with assessment of the manpower
requirement: recruitment, selection and placement of personnel, training and development of personnel,
and periodic appraisal of the performance of the personnel. It deals with planning and managing
manpower resources.
In other words, staffing in the process of obtaining, managing and maintaining a work force capable of
full-filling the goals of the organization.
1. Job analysis: it involves the collection of job related information to prepare job description and job
specification. Job description includes detail information about what a person has to do while
being in specific job. Job Specification indicates the qualification, training work experience and
other personnel requirement to perform a particular job.
2. Human resource planning: It involves an estimation of demand and supply of manpower to fulfill
current and future HR requirement of the organization.
3. Recruitment and Selection: Recruitment is the process of making a pool of qualified candidates. It
starts with the invitation of application and ends with the development of a list of qualified
candidates. Selection involves the process of reviewing application blanks, organizing interviews
and test and informing candidates.
4. Training and Development: Training and development is required to develop the skill and ability to
motivate employees to work. Depending on the training needs, of the employees on the job(
inside the organization) and off the job (outside the organization) training in organized.
5. Performance Appraisal: It is a process of evaluation employees’ performance related strength and
weaknesses. Performance is measured against criteria set previously. The result of evaluation is
used for determining training needs, making promotion decision and providing reward based on
the employees’ performance.
6. Compensation and Benefits: Compensation is for rewarding people through pay, incentives and
benefits for the work done. Compensation and benefits are great source of motivating employees,
so the packages must be adequate, equitable and acceptable to the employees.
7. Health and Safety,
8. Employee relation.
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