|
Levels in Organisations and Role Clarity
Conroy Fourie, Coach, South Africa, Member
Broadly-based on the concept of the Requisite Organisation and Stratified Systems Theory (Elliott Jaques), we can distinguish the following Levels in Organisations:
Level 1: SPECIALIST, time horizon short, e.g. day-to-day, perhaps sometimes week-to-week; competent "hands-on skills" to complete a task or activity.
Level 2: SUPERVISORY, time horizon weekly or perhaps a few months; competent in supporting and co-ordinating workers to achieve set standards.
Level 3: MANAGEMENT, time horizon a year or perhaps 2 years; competent in constructing, connecting and fine-tuning systems to optimal utilisation of resources.
Level 4: STRATEGIC, time horizon 2 – 5+ years; being competent in a unified work system by understanding the organisation's purpose and integrating new futures, new services and products including positioning the organisation within the market context.
When organizations achieve an appropriate hierarchical organization, when people at each le...
|
|
| |
|
|
|
| |
|
Levels in Organization
Oluwaseyi Solomon, Partner, Singapore, Member What happens in an organization when one or more organization leadership team members tend to possess more than one competence mentioned above?...
|
|
| |
|
Summary Stratified Systems Theory
Jaap de Jonge, Editor, Netherlands Thanks Conroy for your excellent contribution. Allow me to add a short overview of Jaques' Stratified Systems Theory (SST) to help clarify things a li...
|
|
| |
|
Team Members Shoulder Responsibility, not the CEO
Riphagen, Financial Consultant, Netherlands, Member @Conroy Fourie: You write in your last paragraph about an important role that the CEO has within the Levels in Organisations.
I completely disagr...
|
|
| |
|
Other 4 Levels in Organisations
Denis Hitchens, Business Consultant, Australia, Member It seems to me that the article omits one of the largest levels, that of unskilled workers
At an Occam's Razor level there are only four levels, ...
|
|
| |
|
Levels in Organisations and Role Clarity
Anton Verwey, CEO, South Africa, Member Hi Conroy. We live very close to each other, and I would love to meet up with you to discuss this topic. Perhaps you can also access the submission I ...
|
|
| |
|
Requisite Organisation most Popular in Canada
Paul Steele, Consultant, Australia, Member This discussion is following the works of Elliott Jaques and his concept of the Requisite Organisation; not a theory that has had much academic take-u...
|
|
| |
|
Line and Staff Functions and Organizational Levels
Romy Sson, Management Consultant, Philippines, Member When we're talking about organizational levels, make sure to differentiate between line and staff functions. Staff do not give instructions to line di...
|
|
| |
|
Job Matching Process as Described by Jim Collins
Nelson E. Edjan, Student (MBA), Philippines, Member In every facet of organization there must be a job matching process that fits the job or role to the capabilities and competencies of workers, strictl...
|
|
|
