Question: What does organizing in management involve?
Question: What does organizing in management involve?
Answer:
Organizing involves following:-
1. Identification and Classification of Required Activities
2. Grouping of Activities to Obtain Objectives
3. Assignment of a manager to each group with the authority
4. Provision for Coordination horizontally and vertically
1. Identification and Classification of Required Activities
Activities, or business processes are set of interrelated activities which take business inputs, transform them to outputs by consuming, adding values. This process of transformation is affected by controls (policies, procedures, regulations etc) and realized by means of resources available (human resources, equipment, capital etc). In modern businesses, we have thousands of activities. The first step in organizing is to identify and classify required activities to achieve organizational objectives set in the planning function of management. A wise manager will start first with key activities.
2. Grouping of Activities to Obtain Objectives
Similar activities are grouped in this step. After grouping, we have activities as such production activities, design activities, marketing activities, sales activities, financial activities etc. When grouping the activities, the contribution of a certain activity toward the achievement of organizational objectives and significance, and interrelations with other activities are considered.
3. Assignment of a manager to each group with the authority
A specific management level is assigned for every group of activity from first-level, middle level, and top level management. Then an appropriate manager style is assigned for each group. Please note that at this step there is no human resource assignment. We only assign the manager as a styleship to effectively and efficiently manage a certain group of activity.
4. Provision for Coordination horizontally and vertically
At the last step, the relationships as horizontal and vertical are defined between different activity groups. The responsibilities, delegations, authorities should be well defined in this step.
