supervisory system is the cutting up of the organization into groups (departments). Departmentation can be defined as the grouping of jobs under the authority of a single manager‚ according to some rational basis‚ for the purposes of planning‚ coordination and control. The number of departments in an organization depends on the number of different jobs‚ i.e.‚ the size and complexity of the business. Bases for Departmentation: What organizations actually do is a group person in a way that relates to the
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Explain Departmentation ? Departmentation is a process resulting out of choice to group tasks according to some criterion. The resultant process of departmentation includes decisions regarding segregating organizational work‚ allocation of work to persons‚ telling all involved who is in charge and provide for the support needed by those. Given the nature of these choices and decisions‚ departmentation and the criteria or bases used for creating departments can have serious impact on the organization’s
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Bases of Departmentation 1. Functions. Important enterprise functions provide the usual basis for classifying activities into departments. Manufacturing‚ marketing‚ finance‚ personnel‚ accounting and engineering are the typical functions of an industrial enterprise‚ and departments ma be established on the basis of such functions. But all these functions are not alike in importance from the business point of view. Marketing and manufacturing are the basic functions of an industrial concern‚ and
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Departmentation (Grouping) -One reason organizations exist is to do things that would be hard for one person to do by themselves. For example‚ it’s hard to conceive of one person building an office building. Instead‚ we have organizations of thousands of people with diverse skills that work together to build buildings. However‚ coordinating‚ controlling and just keeping track of a lot of individuals introduces its own problems. One way to solve these problems is to create a hierarchical system
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and importance of the term “Departmentation” which forms the very basis of the organisation structure of any enterprise. You have already noticed that organisation involves the dividing and grouping of the works to be performed in the enterprise on some logical basis so that team spirit can be developed. This grouping of activities and employees into various units for the purpose of administration is called departmentation. Concept and importance Departmentation is a means of dividing the large
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Chapter Summary http://wps.prenhall.com/ca_ph_johns_ob_6/23/5902/1510999.cw/content/index.html www.preciousheart.net/chaplaincy/Auditor_Manual/5org-str.pdf Thompson Scott (2012) Functional Vs. Product Departmentation (Scott Thompson‚ 2012) http://smallbusiness.chron.com/functional-vs-product-departmentation-47482.html http://www.pearson.com/
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National Institute of Business Management Chennai - 020 FIRST SEMESTER EMBA/ MBA Subject : Principles and Practices of Management Attend any 4 questions. Each question carries 25 marks (Each answer should be of minimum 2 pages / of 300 words) 1. What are the fundamentals of staffing and manpower? Explain the different methods of selection recruitment‚ training and development. 2. Explain the nature and functions of Directing. Direction is a continuous function and therefore management must supervise
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Room Agenda Principles of Management Week: 5 Session: 2 Case: GM’s structuring for comeback? CEO: Nishaant Dalmia CEO’s Decision: We decided that GM should structure itself in a product organization grouping manner. CEO’s Rationale: A departmentation by product would be the way for GM to structure itself for a comeback in the latest markets. One of the big reasons for this organization structure is that it allows for growth and diversity of products and services. This is very important in
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Scribd Upload a Document Search Documents Explore Sign Up | Log In / 71 Download this Document for Free training in time management; and training to think more positively and realistically about sources of job stress. Tentative evidence suggests that these applications are useful in reducing physiological arousal‚ sleep disturbances‚ and self-reported tension and anxiety. E. Work-Life Balance Programs An increasing number of organizations are providing work-life balance
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In an organization‚ there are often many levels of management. These levels of hierarchy can span vertically or horizontally. Recently there has been an explosion of decentralization and movement towards flatter organizational structure. Just as the Toronto Dominion Tower has many levels to its building‚ TD Canada Trust also has many levels to its tall and centralized organizational structure‚ and this has worked very well for them. In TD Bank‚ a very tall organizational structure can be observed
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