Organization and Management

FRANCINE T.
VALDEZ GAS 11 – A
ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT
FAST LEARNING REVIEW
1. What are the three traditional organizational design theories? Briefly define each.
 SIMPLE ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGN
- Has few departments, wide spans of control, or many subordinates directly reporting to a
manager.
 FUNCTIONAL ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGN
- Groups together similar or related specialties. It is utilized and put into practice in an entire
organization.
 DIVISIONAL ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGN
- is made up of separate business divisions or units, where the parent corporation acts as
overseers to coordinate and control the different divisions and provide financial and legal
support services.
2. What are the advantages and disadvantages of a simple organizational design? Do you agree or
disagree with these advantages and disadvantages? Explain your answer.
Organizational design is a comprehensive framework for integrating the key

elements of an organization: people, information, and technology. The organizational design
includes the elements of organizational structure management hierarchies and departmental
groupings while going further to consider a company's technological infrastructure and
operational workflow. Creating a formal design for your organization can provide numerous
advantages, but a solid design can carry distinct disadvantages for certain companies. Knowing
when the formal design is beneficial or disadvantageous is a key to using design effectively.
3. Name the different modern organizational design theories. Briefly define each.
The classical organization structure designs are simple, centralized, bureaucratic, and
divisionalized. Modern organizational designs include project organization, matrix design, and
adhocracy design.
4. Task and personality conflicts are said to be the disadvantages to the use of the matrix-project
design. Explain the rationale of this statement.
Task and personality conflicts are said to be the disadvantages to the use of the matrix-project
design because Matrix design refers to an organizational design where specialists from different
departments work on projects that are supervised by a project manager. This design results in a
double chain of command wherein workers have two managers, their functional area manager, and
their project manager who share authority over them.
1. Define the term “Delegation”.
Delegation refers to assigning a new or additional task to a subordinate it may also refer
to getting work done through others by giving them the right to make decisions and take action.
2. What are the steps involved in delegating tasks to others?
1. Defining the goal clearly - Managers must clearly explain the task objective and the work
or duties someone else is expected to do.
2. Selecting the person who will be given the task - The selected subordinate must be
competent and must share the manager’s task objectives.
3. Assigning of responsibility – Managers must explain that the responsibility assigned to

the selected subordinate is an expectation for him or her to perform the assigned tasks well.
4. Asking the person assigned about his or her planned approaches to accomplish the
task objectives - It is expected that the person chosen to do the task already has a tentative
plan of action that may be presented to the manager, to assure him or her that the person
assigned could achieve the task objective.
5. Granting the assigned person, the authority to act - If the manager is satisfied with the
tentative plan of action presented, granting of the authority to act immediately follows.
Authority is a right to act in ways needed to carry out the assigned task.
1. Define formal and informal organizations.
Formal organizations and informal organizations both have functions and advantages that
benefit the organization and its members.
FORMAL ORGANIZATIONS HAVE THE FOLLOWING FUNCTION:
1. Accomplish goals that require cooperation among formal groups in the organization.
2. Producer or bring about new and creative ideas and solutions to company problems.
3. Coordinate interdepartmental activities.
4. Implement company rules/regulations and policies.
5. Orient/train new employees.
INFORMAL ORGANIZATIONS HAVE THE FOLLOWING FUNCTION:
1. Satisfy the members’ need for affiliation.

2. Give the individual members a chance to develop their self-esteem.
3. Give individual members an opportunity to share their ideas.
4. Lessen individual members’ insecurities.
5. Provide a mechanism to solve members’ personal and interpersonal problems.
2. Give specific examples of formal and informal organizations.
Examples of an informal organization include social standards, relationships, and

interactions that take place among various individuals in companies, while formal organization
includes the rules, regulations, and guides that govern standard operating procedures of
companies.
1.Define Staffing
Staffing refers to the continuous process of finding, selecting evaluating, and

developing a working relationship with current or future employees. The main goal of
staffing is to fill the various roles within the company with suitable candidates. Staffing
can be done within the company or by contractors at various levels of the staffing
process.
2. Give at least four activities or processes involved in staffing.
1. The identifying of job position vacancies, job requirements, as well as workforce

requirements.
2. Checking the internal environment of the organization for human resources.
3. External recruiting.
4. Selecting those with essential qualifications for the job opening.

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FRANCINE T.

ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT

FAST LEARNING REVIEW

 SIMPLE ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGN

 FUNCTIONAL ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGN

 DIVISIONAL ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGN

Organizational design is a comprehensive framework for integrating the key

1. Define the term “Delegation”.

2. What are the steps involved in delegating tasks to others?

3. Assigning of responsibility – Managers must explain that the responsibility assigned to

FAST LEARNING REVIEW

1. Define formal and informal organizations.

FORMAL ORGANIZATIONS HAVE THE FOLLOWING FUNCTION:

INFORMAL ORGANIZATIONS HAVE THE FOLLOWING FUNCTION:

1. Satisfy the members’ need for affiliation.

Examples of an informal organization include social standards, relationships, and

FAST LEARNING REVIEW

Staffing refers to the continuous process of finding, selecting evaluating, and

2. Give at least four activities or processes involved in staffing.

1. The identifying of job position vacancies, job requirements, as well as workforce

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