About Organizing as a Management Function

About Organizing as a Management Function

Organizing is the framework of dividing, grouping and/or coordinating job tasks.
The primary aim of organizing is to

1. Divide jobs into departments
2. Coordinate them
3. Cluster the jobs into the units
4. Establish relationships
5. Establish formal lines of authority
6. Allocate and deploy resources

Most organizations are based on such a design.
Major organizational changes have to address the above 6 things as well. For example, it is possible to address following changes via the organizational design:
- Departmentalization (practiced by most of the org)
- Work specialization (practiced after the industrial revolution up to now)
- Chain of command (practiced by most of autocratic organizations)
- Span of control (this will not be in use anymore in future due to virtual org)
- Centralised or decentralised (mostly in government versus private sector)
- Formalization.

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		1 Jaap de Jonge Editor, Netherlands
	Typical Steps in Organizing (in Management) These are the main steps in dividing work into sections and departments (organizing): Identifica... Sign up

		1 Jaap de Jonge Editor, Netherlands
	Goals of Organizing (in Management) The goals or purposes of organizing are the following: ACHIEVE THE ORGANIZATIONAL PURPOSE AND GO... Sign up

		2 Jaap de Jonge Editor, Netherlands
	Assigning Authorities in Organizing (in Management) We can broadly distinguish 3 types of authorities in organizing: LINE AUTHORITY is the authorit... Sign up

		1 Jaap de Jonge Editor, Netherlands
	Organizing or Organising? Organise and organize are simply different spellings of the same word. "Organize" is the preferred ... Sign up

		1 Jaap de Jonge Editor, Netherlands
	Etymology of Organizing and Organization The term organization ("act of organizing") is derived from Middle French organiser and organisation... Sign up