GM600 Overview to Organizing Team

1. Management
The attainment of organizational goals in an
effective and efficient manner
through
planning, organizing, leading and controlling
an organization’s
human, financial, physical and information resources.

2. Management
 Planning: Setting an organization’s goals and how to achieve them
 Organizing: Determining how activities and resources are to be grouped
 Leading: The ability to influence people toward the achievement of
organizational goals
 Control: monitoring organizational progress toward goal attainment

3. Organizing
Griffin Determining how activities and resources are to be
grouped
Daft and Marcic The deployment of organizational resources to achieve
strategic goals
(Resources: human, financial, physical and information)
Kreitner and Structural considerations such as the chain of
Cassidy command, division of labor, assignment of responsibility
are part of the organizing function. Careful organizing
helps ensure the efficient use of staff resources

4. What Topics and Issues Comprise Organizing?
 Org structure: org design; departmentalization; reporting relationships;
chain of command; span of control; distributing authority & delegation;
coordinating activities; organization size; outsourcing and offshoring; virtual
work teams
 Job Design: division of labor; specialization; job descriptions
 Managing Change and Innovation
 Managing Human Resources: attracting, developing and maintaining an
effective workforce; legal matters; compensation; training; performance;
labor relations; diversity