Babiera, Roliel E.

EDUC 207: Management/Supervision of Institution

Prof: Dr. Nick Pañares

April 1, 2023

Session:
• Organizing: Organization Structure; Components of the Organization,
Classical and Modern Views of Organizing
• Leading; Meaning: Leadership and Supervision; Trait, Behavior, and
Contingency of Leadership

In today’s session for EDUC 207, the discussion was focused on Organizing and
Leading. These two concepts are the essential functions under the management
and supervision of institutions.

Organizing is the second management function that focuses on coordinating

human and other resources to achieve the organization’s objectives. It follows
organizational structures that show how activities are directed toward the
achievement of goals through roles, responsibilities, and rules. And alongside its
structures are its components namely Task, People, Structure, and Technology.

Organization has two views, the classical and modern views. These are theories
of the organization that predict and explain the process and behavior patterns in
an organizational setting. The Classical view primarily deals with the anatomy of
formal organizations and views one as a machine and the employees as parts of the
machine. This approach merely focuses on how work should be done. That is why
it sees the division of labor, departmentalization, coordination, and span of control
as important factors to consider in achieving the objectives. It is very goal-driven
and process-oriented to the point that the system pictures a machine-like type of
work environment wherein achieving the deliverables is always the end goal. And
organizational work tends to go under many networks that somehow may lead to
missing other details that go around in meeting the goals. While the Modern view
emphasizes the conceptual analytical base, its reliance on the empirical research
data, and its integrating nature. This has two approaches which are the System
Approach and Contingency Approach. The system approach studies the
organization in its totality, both the internal and external natures. This allows an
understanding of the various subsystem within it which has specific functions,
rules, and structures. The contingency approach suggests the organizational design
based on needs. External and internal factors should be considered in forming the
structure. Though the Modern view sees the importance of digging into the inner
circle of an organization, this may pause the challenge as it requires time, and
factors to consider may change given the other factors that may affect the system of
the organization.

Leadership is the capacity of the organization to set and achieve challenging

goals, take fast and decisive action when needed, outperform the competition, and
inspire others to perform at the highest level they can. It entails empowering
oneself and others toward goals. And referred to the process of influencing and
supporting others to work enthusiastically toward achieving objectives.
 Individuals performing leadership should embody traits such as but not limited
confidence, integrity, vision, decisiveness, and others. These traits of effective
leaders enable them to perform functions accordingly. Leadership could be task-
oriented or people-oriented as these two behaviors pose an impact on the goal of
leading. The contingency approaches are very important in leadership as it is the
situational variables that influence the effectiveness of different leadership styles
and behaviors. In fiedler’s contingency model, it shows how leader-member
relations, task structure, and a leader’s position power fluctuate when it comes to
performance level in which task-oriented style became favorably high. This does
show that effective leadership is goal-driven which is very important in an
organization. However, there will always be high regard for the type of relations
existing within the work environment. Thus, balancing the achievement of tasks
and the kind of relationship among the people in the organization should be
observed to fully realize the purpose of the work of the organization.