ORGANIZING
TECHNICAL ACTIVITIES
ACTIVITIES
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REASON FOR ORGANIZING
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ORGANIZING DEFINED
THE PURPOSE OF
THE STRUCTURE
1. It defines the relationships between tasks and
authority for individuals and departments.
2. It defines formal reporting relationships, the
number of levels in the hierarchy of the
organization, and the span of control.
3. It defines the groupings of individuals into
departments and departments into organization.
4. It defines the system to effect coordination of
effort in both vertical (authority) and horizontal
(tasks) directions.
When structuring an organization, the engineer manager
must be concerned with the following:
1. Division of labor-determining the scope of work and how it is combined in a
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
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INFORMAL GROUPS
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Organizations may be classified into three types.
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.
The different types of organizations, with their
own distinct advantages and disadvantages, are
briefly presented on the next page.
FUNCTIONAL ORGANIZATION
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Functional organizations have certain advantages.
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THE DISADVANTAGES OF THE FUNCTIONAL ORGANIZATION
PRODUCT OR MARKET ORGANIZATION
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MATRIX ORGANIZATION
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TYPES OF AUTHORITY
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THE PURPOSE OF COMMITTEES
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