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Organisational structure
This document discusses organizational structure and defines it as the formal arrangement of jobs within an organization. It describes how organizational structure divides tasks into groups and coordinates them. Organizational structure facilitates management, encourages growth and optimal use of technology and resources. Key elements of organizational structure include departments, division of labor, levels of authority, and methods of departmentalization by function, product, customer, territory and process. The document outlines different types of organizational structures such as functional, divisional, vertical, horizontal, mechanistic and organic structures.
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- 1. Organizational structure Presentedby: Aashish narayan shukla Anshu kesharwani Shreya gupta Satish singh
- 2. What is OrganisationalStructure? According to Robbins, “An organisational structure defines how job tasks are formally divided, grouped, and coordinated”. It is the formal arrangement of jobs within an organisation.
- 3. Why Organisational Structure? • It facilitates management • It encourages growth and diversification • It facilitates the optimum use of technological improvement • It encourages proper use of human • It stimulates creativity
- 4. Some Key Terms • Authority – The right to make decisions and carry out tasks. • Span of control –The number of people a superior is responsible for. • Hierarchy – shows the line management in the business and who has specific responsibilities. • Delegation of Authority– Authority to carry out actions passed from superior to subordinate. • Empowerment – Giving responsibilities to people at all levels of the business to make decisions.
- 5. Key Terms •Departmentalization-jobs are divided into specialized parts, and are grouped together. •Division of labour-dividing the total task of an organisation into successively smaller jobs. •Centralisation- •Decentralisation-
- 6. ELEMENTS Functional Departmentalization •A method for separating the activities performed within an organization into groups differentiated by the function they perform. President Production Department Marketing department Finance Department Personnel department
- 7. Product Departmentalization Ittypically groups tasks related to a particular product under one senior manager who specializes in that aspect of the company’s business. Vice-President Fuel division Lubricants and waxes Chemical division
- 8. Process Deparatmentalization Init various manufacturing processes are taken as basis for dividing the activities into departments. General manager Casting divisions Pressing divisions Tubing divisions Finishing divisions Packing divisions
- 9. Territorial Departmentalization Ittakes place when an enterprise or company is organized into a number of divisions located in different areas. LIC Head Office(Mumbai) Eastern Zone(Kilkata) Central Zone) (Kanpur Northern Zone(Delhi) Southern Zone (Chennai) Western Zone(Mumbai)
- 10. Customer Departmentalization •It is used in a particular type of customer the organization seeks to cater, provide services to clearly identified groups of customer. General Manager Marketing manager Wholesale Retail Export
- 11. Typology of Structures • Functional and divisional structures • Vertical and horizontal structure • Mechanistic and organic structures • The matrix structure
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