Case 5

Case 5

Case 5: St. Francis College of Commerce

Central Problem:

➢ How can they improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the College of Commerce?

Objectives:

• To determine an organizational structure that could improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the College

• To increase number of enrollees.

• To reduce the inessential components of the organization

• To eliminate poor interrelationship among the departments

• To reduce expenses

Alternative Courses of Action:

➢ Accept the proposed reorganization

➢ Disregard the proposal

➢ Lower the number of lecturers (part-timer)

➢ Convince the department heads to merge and determine who they want to merge with.

Evaluation of ACAs:

1. Accept the proposed reorganization

• Advantages:

o Faculty and staff can exchange their ideas with each other

o It can save up to 65000 pesos per year

• Disadvantages:

o Create a loss of academic identity in the departments.

o Arousing of conflicting ideas between merged department heads

o Interaction between personnel will become impersonal

o Increase the size of each departments

2. Disregard the proposal

• Advantages:

o Ability to respond to the needs of the students

o Easy supervision

o No conflict may arise between department heads

o Easy to mobilize specialized skills

• Disadvantage:

o May result in overspecialization

o Difficulty in coordination

3. Lower the number of lecturers

• Advantages:

o There can be a room for more full-time faculty

o Critics argue that increased use of part-time faculty harms full-time faculty by taking away full-time positions and extra pay for course overloads

o Less expense...