Organizational Management
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Organizational Management
Organizational management is the process of planning, organizing, leading and controlling the efforts of organization members and resources to achieve stated organizational goals.
The most effective approach for a particular organization is dependent on: the skill levels and experience of the members of the organization; the type of work involved; the organizational environment.
Planning is essential for an organization to achieve it’s desired objectives, and must be undertaken at each and every step of its development.
It’s necessary to first plan on a broad organization-wide scale and then to drill down through the different levels of the organization so that everyone within it knows what is required of them.
Done thoroughly, this should result in each member of an organization essentially having a to-do list that represents their needed contributions (directly and indirectly) to the organizations objectives.
It’s typical within an organization, though it will depend on its size, to find regional managers, divisional managers (human resources, finance, sales, etc.), and departmental managers (who manage the departments within the divisions).
The way regions, divisions, departments and people link together and interact is set out in a management structure (sometimes also referred to as an organizational structure).
Whichever management structure and patterns of communication are implemented need to be regularly reviewed to ensure that an organization and all of its subsystems (processes, departments, teams, employees, etc.) are working effectively to achieve the results desired by the organization.
Such reviews (referred to as performance management) can be carried out on a general basis, or on units of performance, such as quantity, quality, cost or timeliness.