The document discusses the importance of planning and organizing technical activities within an organization, highlighting the need for a structured approach to manage resources effectively. It outlines the formal and informal organizational structures, types of authority, and various organizational structures such as functional, product, and matrix organizations. Additionally, it emphasizes the role of organizing in facilitating the implementation of plans and achieving organizational objectives.
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Planning and Organizing
The document discusses the importance of planning and organizing technical activities within an organization, highlighting the need for a structured approach to manage resources effectively. It outlines the formal and informal organizational structures, types of authority, and various organizational structures such as functional, product, and matrix organizations. Additionally, it emphasizes the role of organizing in facilitating the implementation of plans and achieving organizational objectives.
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Planning and
Organizing Technical Activities By Group 3: Val S. Rocillo Arsenio Moscardon Jr. Justin Rabulan The Contents of the Human Resources Plan
• personnel requirements of the
company • plans for recruitment and selection • training plan • retirement plan What is Organizing? Organizing is a management function which refers to “the structuring of resources a effective manner”.
Structure is the arrangement or relationship of positions
within an organization. Organizing is undertaken to facilitate Reasons the implementation of plans. In effective organizing, steps are for undertaken to breakdown the total job into more manageable man-size Organizing jobs. Purpose of Structure • It defines the relationship between tasks and authority for individuals and departments
• It defines formal reporting relationships, the number of
levels in the hierarchy of the organization, and the span of the control • It is defines the groupings of individuls into departments and departments into organization
• It defines the system to effect coordination of effort in both
vertical (authority) and horizontal (tasks) directions. Concerns when structuring organization 1.Division of labor- determining the scope of work and how it is combined in job. 2. Delegation of authority-the process of assigning various degrees of decision-making authority to subordinates. 3. Departmentation-the grouping of related jobs activities or processes into major organizational subunits 4. Span of control-the number of people who report directly to a given manager. 5. Coordination-the linking of activities in the organization that serves to achieve a common goal or objective. THE FORMAL ORGANIZATION The formal organization is “the structure that details lines of responsibilities, authority and position.” What is depicted in the organization chart is the formal organization. It is “the planned structure“ and it “represents the deliberate attempt to establish patterned relationships among components that will meet the objectives effectively.” Formal structure is described by management 1. Organization chart – a diagram of the organization’s official positions and formal lines of authority.
2. Organizational manual – provides written description of
authority relationships, details the functions of major organizational units and describes job procedures.
3. Policy manuals – describes personnel activities and company
policies. INFORMAL GROUPS The informal organizational structure gets created automatically and the main purpose of such structure is getting psychological satisfaction. The existence of informal structure depends upon the formal structure because people working at different job positions interact with each other to form informal structure and the job positions are created in formal structure. So, if there is no formal structure, there will be no job position, there will be no people working at job positions and there will be no informal structure Features of informal • Informal organization organizational structure gets created automatically without any intended efforts ofmanagers. • Informal organizational structure is formed by the employees to get psychological satisfaction. • Informal organizational structure does not follow any fixed path of flow of authority or communication. • Source of information cannot be known under informal structure as any person can communicate with anyone in the organization. • The existence of informal organizational structure depends on the formal organization structure. THREE TYPES OF ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE 1. Functional Organization - this is a form of departmentalization in which everyone engaged in one functional activity, such as engineering or marketing, is grouped into one unit. 2. Product or Market Organization – this refers to the organization of a company by divisions that brings together all those involved with a certain type of product or customer. 3. Matrix Organization – an organizational structure in which each employee reports to both a functional or division manager and to a project or group manager. TYPES OF AUTHORITY 1. Line authority – a manager’s right to tell subordinates what to do and then see that they do it. 2. Staff authority – a staff specialist’s right to give advice to a superior. 3. Functional authority – a specialist’s right to oversee lower level personnel involved in that specialty regardless of where the personnel are in the organization. SUMMAR A plan is a methodological way of achieving results. Planning is Y undertaken at various management levels. Various steps are required in the planning process depending on the management level. The proper management of engineering activities, whether at the unit, department, or firm level, requires effective organizing. The organizing function is undertaken to facilitate the implementation of plans. Organizing refers to the structuring of resources and activities to accomplish objectives. The structure serves as a way to reach the organization's goals. Thank