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About the concept of organizing

Explain the concept of organizing.


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Organizing is an important function of management. Organizing involves arranging and structuring the work which is required to accomplish the organizational objectives. Normally organizing is known as structure, process, a group of people and function of management. Organizing brings together men, machines, materials and money to execute the plans. The concept of organizing can be defined in the following terms:

  • As a structure: Organization is the structural framework or mechanism of the relationship among the organizational members that can be presented in a chart. It defines the duties, responsibilities, authorities of the people for handling the job to achieve the common goals.  

According to Koontz and Odonnel, "Essentially, it (organization) is the creation and maintenance of an intentional structure of roles."

According to Stoner"Organizing is the process of arranging and allocating works, authority, and resources among an organization’s members so that they can achieve an organizational goal".

  • As a process: Organization as a process refers to the identification and grouping of activities to be done, assigning duties to the people, creating authority responsibility relationship and coordinating activities among the members and departments. 

  • As a function: Organization is an important function after planning. The manager of the company organize or collect resources such as manpower, money, material, machine, methods, etc.

  • As a group of people: Organizing is the group or association of certain people created for certain specific economic interest or non-economic interest. It is guided by the policy or the rules of the company. School, colleges, hospital, government office, club, etc are the examples.
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