L2

• UNDERSTANDING THE ORGANIZATION

  • Gives a basic sense of the org including its

  • Structure

  • Basic Parts

  • Current/Desired Personality

  • Feedback Among the Basic Parts
• LEARNING FROM YOUR WORK

  • The information you handle may be confidential

  • Reports
• LEARNING FROM THE REOURCES AVAILABLE

  • Annual Reports

  • Company‘s Mission Statement and Goal
• LEARNING FROM THE REOURCES AVAILABLE: Annual Reports

  • Contain valuable information about the company‘s achievements
• BUSINESSES

  • Organizations that seek to make a profit.
• TYPES OF ORGANIZATIONS

  • Single Proprietorship

  • Partnership

  • Corporation

  • Professional Service Organization
• TYPES OF ORGANIZATIONS: SINGLE PROPRIETORSHIP

  • Owned by one individual
• TYPES OF ORGANIZATIONS: PARTNERSHIP

  • Not incorporated and has 2 or more owners.
• TYPES OF ORGANIZATIONS: CORPORATION

  • Organized under the laws of a particular state in which a chartered was secured.
• TYPES OF ORGANIZATIONS: PROFESSIONAL SERVICE ORGANIZATION

  • Professionals such as lawyers, physicians, etc
• PROFESSIONAL SERVICE ORGANIZATION: Not-for-Profit Entities Seek to Provide Services

  • Secure funds from variety of sources
• PROFESSIONAL SERVICE ORGANIZATION: Governmental Units Seek to Provide Services

  • Called by different names such as agency, bureau, department and board.
• STRUCTURE OF ORGANIZATIONS

  • Org structure is a grouping of a comp’s EMs delineating each worker‘s function, superior and subordinate.
• STRUCTURE OF ORGANIZATIONS

  • Org charts starts by listing the CEO at the top & then all of the people below him by name & title.
• STRUCTURE OF ORGANIZATIONS

  E.g.

  • CEO may have execs reporting directly to him, usually listed underneath him on the chart, connected by straight lines can include:

  • Chief Financial Offices
  • Director of Marketing
  • Chief Operating Officer
• Under CFO it might show:

  • Human Resources Director

  • Accounting Staff
• ORGANIZATIONAL CHARTS

  • Connects each employee only to his direct reports.

  • In depts where several EMs perform the same function, such as sales/manuf, EMs are listed by title/function, not name.
• Positions

  • Board of Directors
  • Senior Management
  • Middle Management
  • Department Employees
• POSITIONS: BOARD OF DIRECTORS

  • Establishes policies to guide company operations
• POSITIONS: SENIOR MANAGEMENT

  • Provides direction in carrying out policies
• POSITIONS: MIDDLE MANAGEMENT

  • Directs day-to-day activities
• POSITIONS: DEPARTMENT EMPLOYEES

  • Perform tasks to meet the organization‘s go
• EMPLOYEE EMPOWERMENT

  • Enables EMs to make decisions w/o review by managers

  • Allows fewer levels of middle managers

  • Requires that the worker understand the company

  • Facilitates working in teams

  • Increases job satisfaction