TOPIC 5 – STRUCTURE
TASKS AND FUNCTIONS
ORGANISING
Structuring organisations
= Creating relationships between staff enabling them to achieve desired goals.
Division of labour
- Tasks
- Function
- Departments
- Organisational structure
TASKS
Adapt to the skills of
Logical entity
Challenging
No contradictions
Duty + responsibility (obligation and expectation to perform assigned duties)
Work intrinsic factors – Herzberg
- task broadening (more of the same level)
- task rotation
- task enrichment (more of a higher level)
(task rotation = a management strategy that involves periodically rotating
employees through different tasks or roles within a job or department.)
(intrinsic = from within)
FUNCTION
4 components of a function:
1. Labour content (tasks and responsibilities)
2. Working conditions (stressful, climate)
3. Labour relations (who is my manager, who are my subordinates)
4. Employment conditions (salary, fringe benefits)
(fringe benefits =vouchers (maaltijdcheques), social security coverage, hospitality
insurance…)
, DEPARTMENTS
most common forms of departmentalization
shows each type of departmentalization as well as the advantages and
disadvantages of each.
F-FORMAT
Management
Productio Sale
Purchasing
n s
+ -
Efficiency by grouping similar specialisms Poor communication between functional
and people with similar skills, knowledge areas
and focus
Coordinateion within the functional area Limited view of business objectives
More specialisation Monotony of work
TASKS AND FUNCTIONS
ORGANISING
Structuring organisations
= Creating relationships between staff enabling them to achieve desired goals.
Division of labour
- Tasks
- Function
- Departments
- Organisational structure
TASKS
Adapt to the skills of
Logical entity
Challenging
No contradictions
Duty + responsibility (obligation and expectation to perform assigned duties)
Work intrinsic factors – Herzberg
- task broadening (more of the same level)
- task rotation
- task enrichment (more of a higher level)
(task rotation = a management strategy that involves periodically rotating
employees through different tasks or roles within a job or department.)
(intrinsic = from within)
FUNCTION
4 components of a function:
1. Labour content (tasks and responsibilities)
2. Working conditions (stressful, climate)
3. Labour relations (who is my manager, who are my subordinates)
4. Employment conditions (salary, fringe benefits)
(fringe benefits =vouchers (maaltijdcheques), social security coverage, hospitality
insurance…)
, DEPARTMENTS
most common forms of departmentalization
shows each type of departmentalization as well as the advantages and
disadvantages of each.
F-FORMAT
Management
Productio Sale
Purchasing
n s
+ -
Efficiency by grouping similar specialisms Poor communication between functional
and people with similar skills, knowledge areas
and focus
Coordinateion within the functional area Limited view of business objectives
More specialisation Monotony of work
