SOPHA
Unit 3 Tutorials: The Successful
Management of Human Resources
INSIDE UNIT 3
Organizational Structures and Management
Getting Organized : Organizational Considerations: Structures and Hierarchies Management Process and Corporate Culture . Goal Setting and the Mission Statement : Levels of Strategy
Managers as Leaders
. Managers - Management Skills . Management Styles Decision Making : Developing Staff Navigating Relationships within Organizations Direct Reports
Human Resources Development & Support
Human Resource Management Overview : Acquiring the Employees Appraisals and Their Impact in HR and Training - Compensation in the Workplace - Motivation, Morale and the Early to Mid-20th Century - Contemporary Motivation Theories HRM Toolkit "Big Five" Personality Traits
Managing Workforce Relations and Technology
.Workforce Diversity - Legal Considerations with Employees : Labor Unions . Management Technology in Virtual Work World : Virtual Options in Business Today
Getting Organized
by Sophia Tutorial
WHAT'SCOVERED
Have you ever noticed that humans love to organize around things? Baseball teams, football teams. organizations at work, even bowling leagues--we all like to organize ourselves in one way or the other. Well, it turns out that businesses are no different. After all, they're made up of humans! This tutorial provides an overview of business organizations.Our discussion breaks down as follows: 1. Getting Organized 2. Departmentalization
1. Getting Organized
An organization is a person or group of people intentionally organized to accomplish a common goal or set of
organizations
Organizations usually have the following characteristics:
. Vision Mission Values : Strategic Goals : Strategy
Chain of command is the structure in which the command of a group is distributed from upper management to each individual employee. In this way, an organization can see how the command runs from the very top person on the top of the chain all the way down to the person turning the wrench, or sweeping the floor, etc.
Job specialization is the practice of concentrating on a definitive area of knowledge in the workplace, which allows a worker to become very good at that one particular job. Therefore, he or she can do that job, at least in theory, more efficiently.
Most people use an organizational chart to explain the chain of command. This will include people like the president and the vice president of the company, regional managers, and district managers.
There is also something called span of control, and this dictates how or what each person in that chain of
person is specializing in within the organization.
IN CONTEXT
Consider the chain of command for a place called the Wikimedia Foundation, by reviewing their organizational chart below. If you look at the top of the organizational chart,you'll see the executive director and the deputy director.You can see how the chain of command runs from the executive directors all the way down through the chief technology officer (cTO),developerspartnerships volunteer coordination,CFOO,fundraising,business development,etc.,all the way down to lega counsel.
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Executive Director Sue Gardner
Deputy Director Erik Moller
CTO/Developer Brion Vibber
Partnerships vacant
CFOO
Veronique Kessler
Developer Tim Starling
Jolunteer Coordinator Cary Bas