What is an Organization


WHAT IS AN ORGANIZATION

The organization define has “The process of organizing, planning and controlling resources within an entity by achieving its overall aim and objectives. The management of the organization must be fair in order to make decision and solve problems in order to effective and efficient manner”.



Planning
Planning is a management function that involves setting goals and determining step moves to achieve these goals. Setup is an action process that simply means that management must be aware of the organization's main critical contingencies to its economic conditions, competitors and customers. In addition, they should try to predict the future conditions.

After evaluating different approaches, they should decide the best steps to reach their set goals and objectives.

Organizing
Organizing is a management function that involves the development of organizational structure and allocating human resources to accomplish it’s set goals and objectives. Usually it is represented by an organizational chart that provides the work order chain of command in the organization. organizing also involves to design each individuals job role of the organization.

Recently, many organizations have attempted to balance the need for professional competence and the need for workers to have jobs that differ from independence. Many jobs are now established based on principles such as empowerment, job enrichment and teamwork.

Leading
Leadership involves the sources of social and informal influence that you use to encourage actions by others. If leaders are effective managers, their subordinates will be more interested in achieving the goals and objectives of an organization.

Scientific behavior has greatly contributed to the understanding of this leadership function; Leaders must first understand their subordinate’s personality, values, attitudes and feelings.

Controlling
Controlling consists of three steps, which follows as:

1.      1. Establishing performance standards
2.      2. Comparing actual performance against standards
3.      3. Taking corrective action when necessary.

Effective control requires reality in plans, planning provide significant standards or performance targets. Controlling also requires a clear understanding of where responsibility lies for shortcomings from standards. The two traditional methods of controlling techniques are budget audits and performance audits.


Conclusion
The management function, planning, organizing, leading and controlling are generally considered to be the best way to describe management jobs and the best way to disseminate the accumulation skills of leadership studies. Although there has been a dramatic change in the situation facing the managers in the organization and the tools used to carry out their responsibilities through these key functions.

References

Mintzberg H. The Nature of Managerial Work (New York: Harper & Row, 1973) 

D. Lamond, “A Matter of Style: Reconciling Henri and Henry,” Management Decision 42, no. 2 (2004)

Aswathappa K. (2010). Human Resource and Personnel Management: Text and Cases, Third edition.
 
Bernardin H. J. (2003). Human Resource Management.

Cascio Wayne F. (2003). Managing Human Resource.

Dassler. Gary (2006). Framework for HRM.




Comments

  1. Randika EkanayakaAugust 14, 2018 at 7:32 AM

    Good information..

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  2. UnknownAugust 24, 2018 at 12:04 AM

    Pls adv to which area this article relate in our HRM sessions.
    Tks.

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    1. YvonneAugust 24, 2018 at 9:40 AM

      Sir its just a common information about, how HRM involves in organization in order to achieve its goals and objectives.

      Delete
  3. UnknownSeptember 11, 2018 at 9:14 PM

    Pls relate to the relevant topic and suggest to read thru the power point documentation etc or obtain assistance when compiling the articles. This need to be re-done.

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  4. Iresha EkanayakeOctober 6, 2018 at 9:34 AM

    Good article..

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