Organizing Functions

Organizing Functions

Marilyn Sykes

MGT/330

July 09, 2012

Professor Steven Owlett

Organizing Functions

Planning functions of organizing involve designing departmental tasks for employees and managers to complete particular roles in each unit. Large corporations, in the past, had advantages over small corporations. However, small corporations presently have advantages, such as capabilities of rapid reactions, responding to supply and demands, and resolving minor problems. Effective organizations use both advantages because both create small and agile components that increase value by using advantage of power and size.

Organizations swap organic structures to mechanistic and vice versa because of transition from smaller to larger batches and constant innovations involving technology. Organizing for fluctuating manufacturing, companies must go in search of mass-market customizing methods to satisfy consumers by way of computer and lean producing. For example, any company may take advantage of E-commerce to serve better large communities. Time-sensitive competition involves placing emphasis on logistics and engineering functions (Bateman & Snell, 2009).

In addition, organizations create a fixed system of daily and common functioning activities that become standardized. This system conform activities and assimilate various departments by controlling a person’s performance. For example, organizations may use certain equipment that makes purchasing and training easier. The system may also depend upon formalization, such as attendance or dress code because it will regulate interactions; therefore, eliminating uncertainties within an organization. Both approaches when used in unison will add to a stable and firm environment. Banks use standardization from operating functions to dress codes, which signify the organization and its functions represents stability and trust (Bateman & Snell, 2009).

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