Organizing
Organizing refers to a process of creating a structure for the organisation that will enable its people to work effectively towards its vission, mission and goals.
Definition: The process of arranging and allocating work, authority, and resources among an organization’s members so that they can achieve the organization’s goals.
When an organization has adopted a plan management must combine human and other resources such as money, machines, raw materials and knowledge in a best possible way to achieve the organizations goal.
The process of establishing orderly uses of resources within management, system in determining what individual employees will do in an organization and had individual efforts should combine to advance the attainment of organization’s goals.
Activities involved in organization
Developing
Communicating co-operating and co-coordinating with people in all the departments in the organization.
Develop an organizational structure as part of the organizational activities.
Assign tasks to individuals and departments
Put in place clear reporting relationships.
Why organizing is important?
Reasons for organizing include the following: Allocation of responsibilities, Accountability, Establishing clear channels of communication, Resource deployment, The division of work, coordination and departmentalization.
Organizing Terminology
Departmentalization;- Refers to the grouping of jobs in order to achieve organizations goals or devising a
Restructuring; - Right sizing- flattening the organization:- This means empowering the lower level managers so that they assume more responsibilities and so that senior manager can have more time to concentrate on strategizing decentralization.
Responsibility; - This entails the obligation of an employee to perfume a duty or assigned activity.
Accountability; - The expectation that the employee will accept credit