Managing People and Organization

Managing People and Organization

DE3D

Outcome 4

Report of Managing People and Organization

Candidate Name: Wang Ye

Grade and Class: 10 Businesses

Return date: 26/12 2011

Class: 10 Business

Name: Wang ye SCN: 125059694

Content

1.0 Introduction

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2.0 Main Body ......................... .................................................. .................

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2.1

The organization of Current Situation .......................................

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2.2

Suggestion

about

merger

with

John

Colbert

Civil

Engineering

Contractors

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2.3 Contingency Theory ............................... ........................................

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2.4 The new structure, identify the different line, staff, functional and

/or lateral relationship. .................................... ......................................

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2.5 The new organization

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3.0 Conclusions

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4.0 References

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1.0 Introduction

Barbour Brown Engineering Ltd is a company of a firm of consulting engineers. The

organization has three factor are Structure/People/Task

Structure: under a new joint partnership.

People: David, Neil, Jake, James, two qualified, one apprentice, on office supervisor.

Task:

A firm of consulting engineers.

Barbour Brown Engineering Ltd was set up by David Barbour and Neil Brown by 14

years ago. This company has some successful achievement, they has fixed civil

engineering contractors, and this enabled the firm to produce the designs to a high

specification, as efficiently as possible.

This company has some problems about management; David is so strict to stuff, like

use timesheet to watch over them. He should use some relaxing policy to make staff

feeling relax on the work time.

If they re-structure, have some benefit for their company, they can change their

method of working and management style. They have a specific goals for company.

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2.0 Main Body

2.1

The organization of Current Situation

Definition of

organization

: Organization are made up at least two people, who have

purposes and achieve purposes, by resources. Barbour Brown Engineering Ltd

Company’s

goal is re- structure with John Colbert Civil Engineering Contractors. The

company’s organization design models is the

mechanistic model, emphasizes

importance of achieving high levels of production and efficiency through: extensive

use of rules and procedures; centralized authority; high specialization of labor. David

use timesheet to supervise staff every time and he never sought advice from them on

the best way to divide up the work. The use of timesheets also gave rise to

discontentment.

The organization use

flat hierarchies

. A hierarchy (sometimes abbreviated HR) can

link entities either directly or indirectly, and either vertically or horizontally. The only

direct links in a hierarchy, insofar as they are hierarchical, are to one's immediate

superior or to one of one's subordinates, although a system that is largely hierarchical

can also incorporate alternative hierarchies. Indirect hierarchical links can extend

a path.

The main aim of the firm was to provide a high quality service and good designs,

David and Neil is BBE

Company’s

president, they authorized to James and Jack, and

these two people have responsibility to watch over the staff when David and Neil

don’t

at office. So it’s flat hierarchies.

Definition of

line structure

: the line structure provides routes for upwards and

downward communication and links departments together to an ultimate source of

authority, for example the chairperson. Such line structures are fine in small and/or

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simple organizations. Neil’s management style is line structure. He gave Jac

k the

autonomy and always discus the project planning and development with the team.

David does something good for company, such as marketing management,

communicate with consumer and partner. Neil does something good for company,

such as participate, clarity of role and team objective. In management of objective

David didn’t has Neil’s support, in the past 14 years,

although the development of

company but don’t have a specific organization structure, now should be re

-structure.

2.2

Suggestion

about

merger

with

John

Colbert

Civil

Engineering

Contractors

Barbour

Brown

Engineering

Ltd

Company

re-structure

with

John

Colbert

Civil

Engineering

Contractors

have

some

benefit

for

company,

they

should

have

specific

new organization structure, this

report introduce

three

organizational

structure, such

as ‘shamrock organization’, ‘hybrid’, ‘matrix structure’.

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Shamrock organization

: An organizational structure where a core of essential

executives and workers are supported by outside contractors and part-time help.

The shamrock leaf shape is a symbolic representation of an organization with

three types of workforce, having a main body and connected lobes that together

form a whole. The term was invented by Irish academic and management

author/philosopher Charles Handy.

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Diagrammatize

The

first

leaf

represents

the

administration,

with

middle

manager

and

management

staff in key employees. Most of them had a good professional training. It controlled

by

David,

because David has

been manages it for a long

time. This

leaf is

internal

management which govern other two leafs.

The

second

leaf

is

existence

by

the

enterprise

contract

relationship

individual

or

organization

of

external

management.

Those

others

will

be

useless

with

it.

Always

include some enterprise had cooperating passed, now need to provide

service’s expert.

These people around enterprise

’

s operate.

The third leaf represents the great elastic Labor, like part-time worker and full-time

worker. However, they are not just worker; they are one of the organizations, so they

can complete the task in high standards. Further

more, their decision making power

usually

limited

in

their

work

area.

John

controlled

the

engineering

department,

because his organization is profession in engineering.

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Hybrid

A

hybrid

structure

will

include

elements

of

both

matrix

and

functional

organizations. The advantage of this approach is that it may be adaptable to changing

business

circumstances.

Disadvantages

are

that

it

may

lead

to

staff

being

confused

about what their responsibilities are.

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Marketing

Administ

ration

Sit Development