Concept of Organising

• Wipro is striving to be among the largest, most successful IT services companies.
• Restructuring was key for Wipro to become a global giant with improved customer focus.
• Wipro split into subsidiaries by product line, each earning about $300 million annually, decentralized for growth.
• Wipro aimed to empower business leaders with more growth responsibility by de-layering the organization.
• Organising follows planning to organize resources for objective achievement.

Concept of Organising

• Structuring an organization involves adapting to its dynamic business environment.
• Organising ensures successful plan implementation by properly organizing the enterprise.
• Key considerations for fruitful planning include needed resources, optimum utilization, attainable tasks, and workforce empowerment.
• Wipro's customer-oriented, product-line diversified approach shows organizing's role in plan implementation.
• Organising designs roles for skilled people, defines relationships to eliminate ambiguity, and clarifies authority and responsibility.
• Organizing is important for productive cooperation, clarifying authority, responsibility, and logically grouping activities.
• Organising coordinates human efforts, assembles resources, and integrates them into a unified whole.

Process of Organising

• Organising involves steps to achieve goals.
• The purpose of organizing is to implement plans, by clarifying jobs and working relationships, and deploying resources effectivelyto achieve the desired results
• School fete organization involves dividing activities into committees (food, decoration, ticketing) under an official.
• These committees operate under the official to ensure clarity on each group's contribution
• Organizing can be understood through the example of students working in a library.
• Confusion can arise if students unload books randomly without planning.

Steps in Organising

• Identification and division of work, prevents duplication and reduces burden
• Departmentalisation, involves grouping similar activities to facilitate specialisation
• Assignment of duties, involves defining job positions and allocating work based on skills and competencies.
• Establishing authority and reporting relationships, involves defining who takes orders from whom and their accountability.

Importance of Organising

• Systematic allocation of jobs reduces workload and increases work force productivity.
• Clear communication lines and reporting relationships avoid ambiguity and ensures clarity
• Optimum resource utilization, avoids overlapping work and makes optimal use of resources, preventing confusion.
• Adaptation to change, allows modification of organization structure and revision of interrelationships with business environment
• Effective administration, clarity provided helps avoid confusion and duplication, for clear execution of work
• Personnel development,Delegation reduces manager workload, giving time for innovation.
• Expansion and growth, aids enterprise growth and diversification

Organisation Structure

• Facilitates deviation from exiting norms and helps take up new challenges
• Allows enterprises to introduce more departments and job roles and product diversification
• It allows addition of current operation areas to new markets
• It creates an environment for teamwork by preventing conflict among people

Defining Organisation Structure

• It is the outcome of the organising process
• Increased profitability of an enterprise is the result of an effective structure
• Structure specifies relationships between, people, work and resources
• Adequate organisation structure is crucial for companies growing in complexity or size
• Facilitates coordination and correlation among all resources
• Enables entities to achieve business goals

Types of Organisation Structure

• Two categories exist; Functional and Divisional structures
• The span of management is shaped by organisational structure
• Number of subordinates effectively manage by superiors is called the span of management

Functional Structure

• Jobs of similar nature are grouped together and these major tasks are organised separately
• All departments need to report to a coordinating manager or head
• Divisions of work into key functions include production, marketing, purchase, personnel and accounts

Advantages of functional Structures

• Can lead to occupational specialization emphasis on particular function is placed
• It is beneficial as similar tasks allow for higher efficiencies
• Facilitates control and coordination within a department due to similarity of task
• Makes employee training easier as task is only on a small scale
• helps boost both managerial and operational efficacy and increased revenue
• Ensures that every function is given attention

Disadvantages of functional structures

• Less emphasis than overall enterprise objectives vs functional head
• Empire of functional empires is practice is very possible
• Pursuing sectional interests at the expense of agency interests can hinder connection between two departments
• May result in issues for coordinating across functionally segmented departments
• Incompatibility between departments may result in conflicts
• Sales insisting on design may have effects on production
• Inflexibility as people with the same skill may possess a restricted framework for other's point of reference
• Functional managers lack exposure to top management roles and may not show ability