Fundamentals of Organizing
Organization
group of two or more people working together to achieve a common set of goals, implies structure to facilitate coordination.
Organizational Theory
The study of how organizations function and how they affect and are affected by the environment in which the operate.
Organizational Design
The process of constructing and adjusting an organization's structure to achieve it's goals.
Organizing
Arranging into coherent unity or functional whole. Alfred D Chandler: structure is the design of organizations through which the enterprise is administered.
Two aspects of:
• Line of authority and communication between the different administrative offices and officers
• Information and data that flow through these lines of communication and authority
John Child
structure is the formal allocation of work roles and the administrative mechanism to control and integrate work activity, including those that cross formal organizational boundaries.
Galbraith and Nathanson
structure is:
• the segmentation of work roles such as production, finance, marketing etc.
• a recombing of these roles into departments or divisions
• then distribution of power across this role structure
Organizational Structure
The formal system of task and authority relationships that control how people coordinate their actions and use resources to achieve organizational goals.
Structure:
• alignment of jobs
• departments
• authority/responsibility relationships which create and outlines the hierarchy of the firm.
Dimensions of Structure
• Mission
• Job design
• specialization
• standardization
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