Objective: Explain the Nature of Organizing as a Management Function

1. Organizing – assigning tasks, grouping tasks into departments, and allocating resources to departments Objective: Explain the Nature of Organizing as a Management Function

2. 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 business’s 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

5. 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.

6. Factors that Affect a Manager’s Organizing Decisions • Company size • Strategy • Environmental conditions • Technology

7. Results of Poor Organizing • Confusion • Frustration • Loss of efficiency • Limited effectiveness

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