Chapter – 5 Organising (4+ 3+3 or 6 or 6 = 10 marks)

Define “Organising” and enumerate 3 steps involved in the process of organising?

• Organising means identifying and grouping various activities into jobs and then sub grouping these jobs into sections and departments.
• It is bringing together financial, physical & human resources and establishing productive relations among them for achieving specific goals.

The organising process involves the following steps:

Division of work:

1st step – divide the work since one individual cannot do the entire work. If work is divided it leads to specialisation of work and skill.

Grouping Jobs and Departmentation:

• The 2nd step is to group similar jobs into departments, divisions or sections such as marketing, financing, manufacturing, etc.
• This brings about coordination and facilitates unity of effort.
• The departments so created are linked together on the basis of their interdependence.

Establishing authority relationships:

• 3rd step is to create an authority structure among various job holders
• This links the various job holders by authority-responsibility relationship.

Define Organising as a structure? Enumerate any three CONSIDERATIONS to be kept in mind while building an organisational structure. - 4 marks

Definition:

• An organisation structure define:
• job positions,
• the roles assigned to them ;and
• the authority relationships among the various job positions.
• It facilitates work-flow in the organisation.