ORGANISATION UNDERSTANDING

By

SAMRAT MAZUMDAR
(25043)

Organisational Traineeship Segment

PRM-25

Submitted to
Host Organization: ROVADAN TRUST

August,2005

Faculty Guide: Prof. Nirlesh Kothari

INSTITUTE OF RURAL MANAGEMENT, ANAND

2005
 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I am also very grateful to my host organization, ROVADAN TRUST whose entire team
treated me with great hospitality and goodwill and made me feel welcome and
comfortable
I am most thankful to the people of Ahwa and various institutions operating there namely
DRDA, other NGOs for there support and cooperation.

I am grateful to IRMA for giving me this exposure to a development organisation by

including this unique component as part of its programme.

I am thankful to Prof. Nirlesh Kothari for identifying the project and the location as well
as giving support and valuable inputs, suggestions and criticism for the project report. I
am also very grateful to Prof. S.N.Biswas for his expert insights.

Anand
August 2005 Samrat Mazumdar
25043

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 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Title : Organisation Understanding

Organisation : ROVADAN TRUST
Reporting Officer : Mr. Ramesh Desai
Faculty Guide : Prof. Nirlesh Kothari
Student’s Name : Samrat Mazumdar

Established in 1st April 2003, ROVADAN TRUST( Rotary Vapi Dang Development
Trust), a non-governmental development organization was born out of the need for
betterment and upliftment of the indigenous communities of Dang District in Gujarat
with a mission to improve the quality of lives of tribal population of Dang through rural
reconstruction.

Objective and scope of study

The objective of the study was to understand the organization as a whole and various
dynamics involved in it. These would encompass understanding and documenting
organisation’s present structure, its people, its systems and procedures, work culture of
the organization, its environment, various activities and processes involves and its future
plans.

Methodology and Sources of data

The primary sources of data were semi structured interviews, open ended discussions,
direct and indirect observations, interactions with stakeholders and secondary data
sources consist of various documents available in the organization.

Major Findings

To look after, manage and supervise the activities of Dang Development Project the
organisation has formed a board of trustees who have elected a chairman to head and
monitor all the functioning of the NGO. The Chairman has been entrusted with all the
powers starting from decision making to finance. To manage the operation of the
organisation a manager is there and other employees have been recruited for various
activities. Currently organisation is involved in SHG training programme, Wadi Project,
Agricultural Activities, Education and Health Programme for the tribal across the district.
And for every activity it has different individuals to look after it and he or she is
accountable for that work. Decision making in the organisation is centralized, Low in
complexity and moderate degree of formalization. Organisation is moving with a short
term strategy. Presence of Routine Technology. The employees are specialist in there field
and all are professionally educated.

The organisation has very good rapport with Government authority and other
stakeholders Funds are mostly Government Project’s fund. It was realized showed how
internalization of the value of the organization and self monitoring and motivate
employee to work.

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 Table of Content

1. Introduction 1
1.1 About the Area 1
1.2 Background 1
1.3 Objective and scope of study 2
1.4. Methodology 2
2. Mission of the Organisation 3
3. Vision of the Organisation 3
4. Strategy 3
5. Activities 4
5.1 District Training Center 4
5.2 Self help Group (SHG) 4
5.3 Self Employment Centre 4
5.4 Bamboo Craft manufacturing 5
5.5 Production and Marketing 5
5.6 Agriculture Development Program 5
5.7 Literacy Programme 6
5.8 Low Cost Shelters 6

6. Organisation Structure 7
7. Dimension of Organisation Structure 9
7.1 Complexity 9
7.2 Centralization 9
7.3 Formalization 10
8. Determinants of Organisation structure 11
8.1 Activities 11
8.2 Environment 11
8.3 Technology 12
8.4 Culture 12
9. Sources of Fund 14

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10. HRM Issues 16
11.1 Selection and Recruitment 16
11.2 Job Analysis 16
11.3 Induction 17
11.4 Compensation 17
11. Management Information System 18
12. SWOT Analysis 19
13. Learning 20
14. References 29

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 List of Annexures/Appendices

Annexure-1 21
Annexure -2 23
Annexure -3 26

List of Tables
Table -1 (Sources of Funds) 14

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