Improving Organsiational Design Flashcards
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What is Job design
Process used to decide on the contents of a job in terms of duties and responsibilities and plans out relationships that should exist
How can Job design be affected
- organisational factors
- environmental factors
- behavioural factors
Why do managers need to design jobs
To Improve levels of labour productivity, therefore motivating employees when done right
What is Job enrichment
More duties with greater responsibility, higher levels need to be met
What is job enlargement
Duties with responsibility, however can be repetitive in the long term
What is job rotation
Offers a variety through regular movement between duties of similar complexity
Hackman and Oldham Job characteristics model consists of
- skill variety
- task identity
- task significance
- autonomy
- Job feedback
- job satisfaction
Human rescource life cycle
1) Human rescource plan
2) recruitment
3) training
4)redeployment
5) redundancy
Product life cycle
1) development
2) intro
3) growth
4) maturity
5) decline
How are managers expected to design jobs to be like
- flexible working time
- flexible contracts
- flexible locations
- flexible hours
Influences of job design
- cooperate objectives
- employee performance
- health amd safety/ legal requirements
- meeting customer requirements
- existing and potential skills of workforce
- rescources available
- expected future developments
What does organisational design have an effect on
Competition
Why is an organisational structure important
- determines authority and responsibility
- determines individual job roles amd titles
- shows who’s accountable for who
- gathers how communication flows through the business
What does an organisational chart show
- span of control
- hierarchy
- chain of command
What is span of control
Number of employees for whom a manager is responsible for
what does a wide span of control ensure
- employee independence
- reduce number of managers
What does having a narrow span of control ensure
- close supervision
- more layers
- effective communication
What is chain of command
Shows the order In which authority and power in an organisation is delegated from top management down
What is delayering
Involves removing one or more levels of hiarchy from organisational structure
What is centralisation
Occurs when a small number of senior managers
what is decentralisation
Allows employees working in small areas of the business to take decisions
Internal influences on organisational design
Leadership and management
Overall/corporate objectives
Skills of workforce
External influences on organisational design
Technology environment
Competitive environment
Economic environment
what is a hiarchy
Number of layers within an organisation
