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Basic elements of Organizing Chapter-11 Chapter outline • Designing Jobs • Grouping Jobs • Establishing reporting relationship • Distributing Authority • Coordinating activities • Differentiating between positions

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Page 1: Basic elements of Organizing Chapter-11 Chapter outline Designing Jobs Grouping Jobs Establishing reporting relationship Distributing Authority Coordinating

Basic elements of OrganizingChapter-11

Chapter outline• Designing Jobs• Grouping Jobs• Establishing reporting relationship• Distributing Authority• Coordinating activities• Differentiating between positions

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Designing jobs

Designing job is the determination of an individual’s work-related responsibility.

• Job specialization: The degree of which the over-all task of the organization is broken down and divided into smaller component parts.

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Alternatives to specialization

• Job Rotation

• Job enlargement

• Job enrichment

• Work team

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Grouping jobs: Departmentalization

The process of grouping jobs according to some logical arrangement.

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Common bases for departmentalization

• Functional departmentalization

• Product departmentalization

• Customer departmentalization

• Location departmentalization

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Establishing reporting relationships

Third basic element of organizing of reporting relationships among employees.

• Chain of command

• Span of management

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Tall vs. Flat organization

• Tall Organization: It involves many managers & narrow span of management.

• Flat Organization: It involves limited managers & wide span of management which may lead to employee productivity as well as increased managerial responsibility.

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Distributing Authority

Authority is power that has been legitimized by the organization.

Two specific issues that managers must address when distributing authority:

• Delegation

• Decentralization

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Coordinating activities

Coordination is the process of linking the activities of the various departments of the organization.

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The need & forms of coordination

• Pooled interdependence

• Sequential interdependence

• Reciprocal interdependence

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Differentiating between positions

• Line positions

• Staff positions