Organising- meaning and process

Organizing

Organising means ‘identifying and grouping different activities in the organization and bringing together the physical and financial and human resources to establish the most productive relations for the achievement of organizational goals’.

Organising Process
1. Identification and division of work: The organizing function begins with division of work into smaller units. Each such unit is called a job. One individual is assigned only one job according to his capabilities and qualification. This leads to systematic working and specialization.
2. Departmentalization: Once the work is divided into smaller manageable units, related jobs are grouped together and put under one department. This grouping process is called departmentalization. The most common ways of departmentation are functional departmentation and divisional departmentation.
3. Assignment of duties: once departments are formed, each department is put under the charge of an individual. The work must be assigned to those who are best suited for it.
4. Establishing reporting relationships: After assigning the duties, all individuals must also be assigned matching authority. This assignment of authority and responsibility results in the creation of authority responsibility relationship between superior and subordinate. With this, a managerial hierarchy is created (chain of command) where every one knows who he has to take orders from and to whom he is accountable.