Organizing

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Organizing assigning tasks, grouping tasks into
departments, and allocating resources to
departments

• Objective Explain the Nature of Organizing as a
  Management Function

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How a Business Benefits From the Organizing
Management Function

• Achieves efficiency by avoiding wasted time,
  money, and effort
• Coordinates work efforts
• Provides direction for the businesss departments
• Improves employee understanding of job
  responsibilities
• Clarifies authority
• Improves employee morale

3
Major Organizing Activities

• Staffing
• Budgeting
• Directing

4
Organizing Decisions

• Division of labor how the work will be split up
• Delegation of authority who is responsible for
  what
• Span of control how many workers will managers
  be responsible for

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Steps in the Organizing Process

• Determine work activities that needed to done
• Group work activities into logical patterns
• Assign activities to specific people
• Allocate needed resources
• Coordinate activities of the different
  individuals
• Evaluate the results of the organizing process.

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Factors that Affect a Managers Organizing
Decisions

• Company size
• Strategy
• Environmental conditions
• Technology

7
Results of Poor Organizing

• Confusion
• Frustration
• Loss of efficiency
• Limited effectiveness

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Organization Chart
Jan Smith President
John Jones Sales Manager
Gina Hill Marketing Manager