Understanding Organisations: Understanding the Internal and External Organisational Environments
Understanding Organisations: Understanding the internal and external organisational environments
This section covers:
Organisational theory
Organisation structure
Centralisation and decentralization
Levels of the organization
Mintzberg's nine design parameters
Formal organisational relationships
Definition of an organisation: Systems of activities and behaviours to enable humans and their machines to accomplish goals and objectives a joint function of human characteristics and the nature of the task environment.
Organisational Theory
Organisations are 'complex adaptive systems' that use people, tasks and technologies to achieve specified goals and objectives. Organisational theory refers to how organisations are structured and how they are managed.
Structure the organisation of the resources and assets and represents the division and distribution of work among members (managers and employees) of the organisation, and the co-ordination of their activities in such a way that they are directed towards achieving the declared goals and objectives of the organisation. Management is about how the organisation manages the structure, the resources and the activities within the organisation and how it measures and monitors the resulting performance towards achieving the declared goals and objectives of the organisation.
Organisational theory attempts to explain how organisations work by defining the common features that organisations or groups of organisations share, by collecting data about them, and by analysing them, assessing 'what works where - and why!. (It is important here to understand that structure and management of organisations will differ - differ with the sector they operate in (public, private, voluntary) and differ with their various stakeholder configuration, differ also with the particular strategic goals and objectives they set themselves. There is therefore no one 'recipe' that will work across all, or even many,
This section covers:
Organisational theory
Organisation structure
Centralisation and decentralization
Levels of the organization
Mintzberg's nine design parameters
Formal organisational relationships
Definition of an organisation: Systems of activities and behaviours to enable humans and their machines to accomplish goals and objectives a joint function of human characteristics and the nature of the task environment.
Organisational Theory
Organisations are 'complex adaptive systems' that use people, tasks and technologies to achieve specified goals and objectives. Organisational theory refers to how organisations are structured and how they are managed.
Structure the organisation of the resources and assets and represents the division and distribution of work among members (managers and employees) of the organisation, and the co-ordination of their activities in such a way that they are directed towards achieving the declared goals and objectives of the organisation. Management is about how the organisation manages the structure, the resources and the activities within the organisation and how it measures and monitors the resulting performance towards achieving the declared goals and objectives of the organisation.
Organisational theory attempts to explain how organisations work by defining the common features that organisations or groups of organisations share, by collecting data about them, and by analysing them, assessing 'what works where - and why!. (It is important here to understand that structure and management of organisations will differ - differ with the sector they operate in (public, private, voluntary) and differ with their various stakeholder configuration, differ also with the particular strategic goals and objectives they set themselves. There is therefore no one 'recipe' that will work across all, or even many,
References: Child J. Organization. 2 ed. Paul Chapman, 1988. Drucker Peter (1998) on The Profession Of Management ' Harvard Business School Press Mintzberg H (1979) The Structuring of Organisations. Englewood Cliffs. N Jersey. Prentice Hall