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Chapter – 5 Organising (4+ 3+3 or 6 or 6 = 10 marks)

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Define “Organising” and enumerate 3 steps involved in the process of organising?

  • Organising means identifying and grouping various activities into jobs and then sub grouping these jobs into sections and departments.
  • It is bringing together financial, physical & human resources and establishing productive relations among them for achieving specific goals.

The organising process involves the following steps:

Division of work:

1st step – divide the work since one individual cannot do the entire work. If work is divided it leads to specialisation of work and skill.

Grouping Jobs and Departmentation:

  • The 2nd step is to group similar jobs into departments, divisions or sections such as marketing, financing, manufacturing, etc.
  • This brings about coordination and facilitates unity of effort.
  • The departments so created are linked together on the basis of their interdependence.

Establishing authority relationships:

  • 3rd step is to create an authority structure among various job holders
  • This links the various job holders by authority-responsibility relationship.

Define Organising as a structure? Enumerate any three CONSIDERATIONS to be kept in mind while building an organisational structure. - 4 marks

Definition:

  • An organisation structure define:
    • job positions,
    • the roles assigned to them ;and
    • the authority relationships among the various job positions.
  • It facilitates work-flow in the organisation.

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