Organizational Structure Of Newspaper and Magazine

Mentor: Dr. Om Prakash Presented by: – Rahul Kumar Roll no. – 12/pmmc/03

Subject – Media Management

Gautam Buddha University Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh – 201310

• Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.

Harold S. Geneen

• The only things that evolve by themselves in an organization are disorder, friction, and Mal-performance.

Peter F. Drucker

• Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, its progress stops.

Thomas J. Watson, Sr.

Definition

• The typically hierarchical arrangement of lines of authority, communications, rights and duties of an organization. Organizational structure determines how the roles, power and responsibilities are assigned, controlled, and coordinated, and how information flows between the different levels of management.

Brief Introduction

Organizational Structure is a framework where, the communication, task, duties, responsibility and many things done with the help of some channel which directly and indirectly related to the organization structure. It tells how to work, how to achieve the goal, and how to coordinate with their subordinates every thing is intertwined. In this information flows in many channel.

Organizational Structure can be vary on the basis of Objective, Goals, Strategy and Vision.

It can be centralized or decentralized. In centralized organizational structure the top level management has the power of decision making and to control the whole the system and channel of information flow. But In Decentralized Structure, the Power of the organization has distributed among the all to work free with independence. The decision making power is distributed among the department to show its efficiency.

Finally! What is Organizational structure

Top Level

Information flow from Up to Down And Down to Up

Why should you develop a structure for your organization?

• It gives members clear guidelines for how to proceed.

• It binds members together.

• It help to overcome by some future events in any organization which is inevitable.

By: Bill Berkowitz

When should you develop a structure for your organization?

• While the need for structure is clear. • Regardless of what type of structure your

organization decides upon, Three elements will always be there.

• They are:

-Some kind of governance.

-Rules by which the organization operates.

-A distribution of work.

• Governance 1st element – Some person or group has to make the decisions within the

organization.

• Rules by which the organization operates. Rules may be explicitly stated and implicit and unstated.

• Distribution of work Inherent in any organizational structure also is a distribution

of work. The distribution can be formal or informal, temporary or enduring, but every organization will have some type of division of labor.

Newspaper

• Organizational structure of a newspaper can be grouped by: frequency of publication; this is dailies or weeklies and a paper has to appear at least five times in a week to become a daily.

• Secondly is market size; national, large, medium, small. National; the publication covers the whole nation and not a particular region or state.

Organizational Structure of Newspaper

Magazine

• Organizational structure of a magazine can be grouped by: Frequency of publication: this is dailies (e-magazine GK today), weekly, monthly and fortnightly.

Organizational Structure in Magazine

President Publisher

Section Editor Design Editor Copy Editor

Associate/ Assistant Editor

Online Editor

Editor-in chief

Managing Editor

Writing/ Contributing Editor

Photographer

Freelancer

Assistant Design Editor

Layout Editor

Assistant Copy Editor

Editorial Face Character

Assistant Online Editor

References:

• www.brainyquote.com• www.businessdictionary.com• www.ctb.ku.edu• www.jprof.com• www.wikianswers.com • www.thefreedictionary.com

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