Mgt 330

Organizing Paper

Edwin E Datuin

University of Phoenix

MGT/330 Management: Theory, Practice, and Application

Sanford Schram

July 14, 2011

Organizing Paper

One of the four functions of management is organizing. Bateman and Snell states that “Organizing is assembling and coordinating the human, financial, physical, informational, and other resources needed to achieve goals. Organizing activities include attracting people to the organization, specifying job responsibilities, grouping jobs into work units, marshaling and allocating resources, and creating conditions so that people and things work together to achieve maximum success” (Bateman & Snell, 2009, p. 20, pp. 1). Management must have a clear understanding and knowledge of the qualification and capabilities of the employees to organize the most valuable resources of an organization better. Management can assign individuals to work areas, set up training for the employees, acquire resources, and organize productive work groups. Through this function of management, managers can establish the organizations internal configuration, build and maintain relationships with employees, and allocate valuable resources. The organizing function of management relates to an organization’s resources and includes physical assets, monetary, human resources, knowledge, and technology. The main focus of the paper will be the evaluation of the relation these resources, knowledge, human resources, technology, and monetary to the organizing function of management at the Toyota organization.

In 1937, Sakichi Toyoda the founder of Toyota established the Toyota Motor Company and the company produced only around 1800 cars from 1936 to 1943 (Toyota, nd.). The end of second of world war gave Toyota Motors Corporation the opportunity to learn about process improvement and employee development from the United States. Toyota took full advantage of the lesson learned and production jump...