Creating Flexible Organization

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To operate a successful business, those in charge must create an organization that operates efficiently and is able to attract employee

1 Understand what an organization is and identify its characteristics.

2 Explain why job specialization is important.

3 Identify the various bases for departmentalization.

4 Explain how decentralization follows from delegation.

5 Understand how the span of management describes an organization.

6 Describe the four basic forms of organizational structure.

7 Describe the effects of corporate culture.

8 Understand how committees and task forces are used.

9 Explain the functions of the informal organization and the grapevine in a business.

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Introduction
The world economy runs on the collective efforts of entrepreneurs and workers who
participate in the creation of products and provision of services for a profit. There are millions of
people waking up early to go to work and fend for their families, and when the government taxes
their incomes, it utilizes it in providing public utilities like health and education. In order to
understand how such an elaborate economic and social system works, it is important to dig
deeper into the business world. The provision of most goods and services requires large amounts
of financial resources and labor that a single person cannot provide and as such, they can either
involve others in funding the enterprise initiative or fund it themselves as entrepreneurs and hire
the required help. This results in the formation of an organization. This paper will, therefore,
explore the concept of an organization, job specialization and departmentalization, the
organizational culture, corporate culture and the functions of informal organizations and the
grapevine.
Definition of an organization and its characteristics
Pride, Hughes and Kapoor (2016) define an organization as a collective of two
individuals or more who team up and pursue a common set of objectives. The process of
unifying such individual efforts begins with the initiative of an entrepreneur or group of people
who take the risk to bring together the factors of production including labor, land and capital.
The entrepreneurs do this because they have identified a need in the market that is not fully
satisfied and decide to fulfil it, therefore, benefiting both themselves and society. This unity of
purpose is motivated by either financial incentives in the form of profits for corporations or the
desire to do public good for not-for-profit organizations. In order to ensure that the common
objectives are achieved, an organization has to be structured in a manner that effectively defines
the roles that the person will perform in the functions that are relevant to organizational success.
Organizational charts can be used to illustrate the role that each person occupying a
particular position plays in the organization and the relationships that exist between the
management and staff. Through an organizational chart, the chain of command detailing the flow
of authority from the highest to the lowest levels can be seen. By employing effective means of
communication along the chain of command, the managers are able to direct organizational
processes and be informed of progress on various projects. The process of decision-making in an
organization is aligned with the collective vision that everyone within the organization identifies
with starting with the management outlining strategies and employees in different departments
executing them. Therefore, an organization is characterized by its division of labor which is
necessary given that the organization’s total task cannot be done by a single department or
individual. Also, there must exist coordination which ensures that there is no duplication of tasks
given the interdependence that exists between various departments and thus organizational
functions in achieving laid down objectives.
Job specialization

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In a capitalist economy, the concept of a free market where an enterprise is encouraged
and the price and cost of goods and services is set by the forces of demand and supply, making
competition stiff. This means that every organization has to find every advantage it can in its
production process to ensure that high-quality products or services are churned out faster and
efficiently. To do this, one of the means is to ensure that total work is broken down into several
tasks and that each employee is assigned a specific task that they are trained to perform better
than others. This way, instead of having a situation where every employee has a bit of
undeveloped knowledge on every function, each employee gets to develop their skill in one task
which in harmony with others ensures the organization achieves its major objectives.
One of the key advantages of job specialization is that it provides a major opportunity to
improve the employee’s productivity. Productivity, in this case, refers to being able to produce
more products and services over a given period of time and contributing to higher company gain.
This happens in various ways. First, there is the advantage of several workers combining their
efforts in the development of a certain product which ensures that the product is complete within
a short time as opposed to if one worker had to do it alone. An example would in the
manufacture of a smartphone where various aspects of the process from design to actual
production would take years even for the most diligent worker to achieve. Also, specialized
employees become so proficient in the execution of specific tasks that they become irreplaceable
therefore ensuring that their job security is a given (Zareen, Razzaq, & Mujtaba, 2013).
Another importance of job specialization that improves overall employee productivity is
that it spares employees the need to keep switching from one activity to another. This ensures
that time is not lost and that it is efficiently used in perfecting the process that the employee is
specialized in. Another advantage of job specialization is that it becomes easier for employees to
find jobs if they have specialized skills as opposed to general ones. This is also an advantage for
companies because they can be able to define what their needs are and then find employees with
the specific skills needed for their organizational needs. Even if the need arose to train
employees, it is ea...


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