Explain the organizing process and major organizational decisions.

Organizing, in companies point of view, is the management function that usually follows after planning.

Organizing Process involves

- the assignment of tasks,

- the grouping of tasks into departments and

- the assignment of authority and allocation of resources across the organization.

Organizational decisions:

73. What determines the basic framework of departmentalization and what are the strengths and weaknesses of the basic forms? Please, explain the organizational structure of the company in your course project.

74. What determines the span of management and hence the levels of organization?

- Work performed by subordinates is stable and routine.

- Subordinates perform similar work tasks.

- Subordinates are concentrated in a single location.

- Subordinates are highly trained and need little direction in performing tasks.

- Rules and procedures defining task activities are available.

- Support systems and personnel are available for the managers.

- Little time is required in nonsupervisory activities such as coordination with other departments or planning.

- Managers' personal preferences and styles favour a large span.

75. What kinds of authority relationships exist in organizations?

􀁺 Line authority - in which individuals in management positions have the formal power to direct and control immediate subordinates.

􀁺 Staff (Functional) authority - granted to staff specialists in their areas of expertise. Narrrower than line authority and includes the right to advise, recommend, and counsel in the staff specialists' area of expertise. It is a communication relationship with management.

76. How authority is dispersed throughout the organization structure, and what determines the extent of this dispersion?

􀁺 Delegation is the process managers use to transfer authority and responsibility to positions below them in the hierarchy

􀁺 Organisations today tend to encourage delegation from highest to lowest possible levels

􀁺 Delegation can improve flexibility to meet customers needs and adaptation to competitive environments

􀁺 Managers often find delegation difficult

77. What explains the differences in organizing practices between countries? How these differences might be managed?

􀁺 Cultural differences (eg. power distance,

power symbols, informal relations, family role)

􀁺 Local tradition

􀁺 Market turbulence