Essentials of Management

Prof. Rohan Mehra

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ORGANISING

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 Practice MCQ’s
• _____________ is not a type of Decision
a. Programmed
b. Operational
c. Individual
d. Unplanned

Ans. d. Unplanned

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 Practice MCQ’s
• ___________ is not a feature of the decision
making process
a. Rational Thinking
b. Accountability
c. Emotional Thinking
d. Systematic

Ans. c. Emotional Thinking

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 Definitions
• Mooney and Railey: Organization is the form of every human
association for the attainment of common purpose
• George Terry: Organizing is the establishing of effective authority
relationships, among selected work, persons and workplaces for the
group to work together efficiently
• Kimball and Kimball: Organizing embraces the duties of designating
the departments and the personnel that are to carry on the work,
defining their functions and specifying the relations that are to exist
between the departments and individuals
• Stoner: Organizing is process of arranging and allocating work,
authority and resources among an organization’s members so that
they can achieve the organizational goal
• Andrew Carnegie: Take away our factories, take away our trade, our
avenues of transportation, our money, leave us nothing but our
organization and in four years we shall have established ourselves

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 Activities in the Organizing Function
• Division of work among employees

• Implementation of pre-determined strategies

• Co-ordinated efforts of employees to achieve

specific objectives

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 Principles of Organizing
• Chain of Command
• Delegation of Authority
• Span of Control

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Principles of Organizing
Chain of Command
• Unity of Command
• Scalar Principle

Span of Control
• The environment in which the company operates
• Nature of Decision Making
• Organizational Structure
• Ability and authority of managers

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 Importance of Organizing
• Promotes effective delegation and
management
• Provides efficient administration
• Optimum use of Human Resources
• Growth and expansion
• Ensures adaptability and adapting to changes
• Ensures co-ordination and communication
• Ensures job satisfaction

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 Process of Organizing

Defining Co- Reviewing

Defining the Division of Grouping of Authority ordination and
Objectives Activities Activities and of Activities Reorganizing
Hierarchy

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 Benefits of Division of Work
• Better Productivity
• Increase in output
• Better efficiency
• Facilitation for training

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The tasks are divided in terms
of Ongoing Tasks

Specific once for

all tasks

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 Each Department is supervised by its
Departmental head or Manager who is
responsible for the following functions:-
• Assess every identified task for understanding
its character
• Classify the tasks according to their functional
areas
• Determine the departmental design for the
organizational structure

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 Different Constituents of Organizing
• Designing Jobs
– Job specialization
– Job Characteristics Model
– Work teams
– Job Rotation
– Job Enlargement
– Job enrichment

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Grouping Jobs or Departmentalization

– Departmentalization by functions
– Departmentalization by Customer
– Departmentalization by Product
– Departmentalization by Process
– Departmentalization by the task force
– Departmentalization by Location
– Matrix Departmentalization

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 Different Constituents of Organizing
• Establishing Reporting Relationship
• Distributing Authority
– Establish the positions and authority in the
enterprise
– Ensure power to the authority for making
decisions
– Exercise the authority of delegation in the
decentralized structure of the organization

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 Different Constituents of Organizing
• Co-ordinating Activities
• Differentiating among positions
– Line position: It refers to the direct chain of
command required for achieving the objectives of
the enterprise
– Staff position: It refers to the line of specialisation,
expertise, advice and support provided by the
staff line

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