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By
Ms. Muhsinath.A. R
2ND Year Msc (N)
INTRODUCTION:
• Organization is the formal structure of
authority calculated to define, distribute and
provide for the coordination of the tasks as
contribution to the whole.
CONCEPTS OF ORGANISATION
UNITS OF ORGANIZATION
Nature of organization
Organization is the process of dividing and combining the
activities.
Organization
makes careful determination of what jobs are to be done and
what workers are required to do them.
Assess the amount of materials, tools and equipments needed
for the accomplishment of the work.
Span of control
hierarchy Integration vs
disintegration
Principles of organization
Centralization vs
delegation decentralization
Unity of command
hierarchy
• E.g.:
Medical Superindent(1)
Nursing Superindent(1)
Deputy Superindent(3)
Assistant Superindent(6)
Staff nurses(30)
Advantages of scalar principles of
hierarchy
It is an instrument of organizational integration
and coherence.
The scalar chain serves as a channel of
communication upwards and downwards.
The rule of through the proper channel created
by the scalar principle ensures that there will
be no short circuiting procedures or ignoring of
the intermediate links.
It establishes below the top executive, a
number of subordinate levels each of which is
centre of decision for specified matters of a
less important nature.
Advantages of scalar principles of
hierarchy
It establishes below the top executives , a
number of subordinate levels each of which
is centre of decision for specified matters of
a less important nature.
It helps to clarify and define the relative
positions and responsibilities of each post in
the organization.
The general functions of the
hierarchical structure
Fixing the responsibility.
Providing the leadership with areas of description at
successive levels.
Providing means for exerting influence and exercising
fellowship.
Making any particular organization and the general
government manageable.
Making it acceptable.
Determining the levels at which the decision of various
kinds may be made.
Providing for ready movement of decision making from
one level to another under agitation.
Bringing to bear relevant, competing and complementary
interests, functions and points.
II. SPAN OF CONTROL
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SPAN OF CONTROL
The span of control varies with four
factors namely
function: type of work to be supervised
Personality: competence of the supervisors
and the subordinates concerned
Space: place where the work to be
supervised
Time: age of the organization concerned.
III. Integration vs disintegration
Integration means the unification of the organization.
It means connecting one or more independent
organization with the rest of the organizational
structure of the country by placing them under the
chief executive directly or through some department.
It involves the abolition of the independent status of
the agencies.
The disintegrated administrative system will not be
conferred by law or constitution and it will be dealt by
many people and there will not be any single chief
executive. In simpler terms lack of unity.
Integration vs. disintegration
contd…
Integrated administration facilitates
coordination and disintegrated
administration creates anarchy
(lawlessness) and conflicts.
IV. Centralization vs. decentralization