SHORT SEMINAR ON

ORGANISATION

CONTENTS: BY,
1. Meaning of organisation
2. Characteristics of organisation
MANISH NANDISH
3. Process of organisation (4NN17EC016)
4. Principles of Organizing SAGAR S
5. Span of Management
6. Departmentalisation (4NN17EC032)
1. Meaning of Organisation:
According to
1. Amitai Etzioni :an organisation is a social unit or human grouping deliberately
structured for the purpose of attaining specific goals.
2. Sehein :An organisation as the rational coordination of the activities of a number of people
for the achievement of some common explicit purpose or goal, through division of labour and
function, and through a hierarchy of authority and responsibility.
3. Allen :the term as the process of identifying and grouping of the work to be performed,
defining and delegating responsibility and authority and establishing relationships for the
purpose of enabling people to work most effectively together in accomplishing their
objectives .
4. Pfiffner and Sherwood :An organisation is the pattern of ways in which large numbers of
people, too many to have intimate face to face contact with all others, and engaged in a
complexity of tasks, relate themselves to each other in the conscious, systematic
establishment and accomplishment of mutually agreed purposes.
2. Characteristics of organisation:
An attempt to synthesize some important definitions indicates that every organisation has:
1. A purpose, goal or goals which as already indicated in a previous chapter are the task of
planning,
2. A clear concept of the major duties or activities required to achieve the purpose,
3. classification of activities into jobs, and
4. establishment of relationships between these jobs in order to ensure coordination. This is
achieved through division of labour and delegation of authority.
A group of organisations sharing a common profile of characteristics is called an
organizational configuration
3. Process of organisations:
 The seven-step procedure are:
1.Consideration of objectives: Objectives determine the various activities which need to be
performed and the type of organization which need to be build for this purpose.
2. Deciding Organizational Boundaries : After consideration of objectives , next step is to
decide what to do inside and outside boundaries of organization.
3.Grouping of Activities into Departments: To identify the activities necessary to achieve
them and to group the closely related and similar activities into departments and sections.
4. Deciding which Departments will be Key Departments: the departmental activates
essential for the ful-fillment of goals.
5. Determining levels at which various types of Decisions are to be made: The levels at
which various major and minor decisions are to be made must be determined.
6. Determining the span of management: Designing the structure is to determine the
number of subordinates who should report directly to each executive.
7. Setting up a Coordination mechanism: As individuals and departments carry out their
specialized activates, the overall goals of the organization may become submerged or
conflicts among organization members may develop so need to be checked. The
activities, decision and relations analysis need to be done.