Management and Organizational Behavior: Designing Your Organization

Your assignment should be no longer than two typed pages, single spaced, excluding your organizational charts. Your organizational chart must be typed. Do not copy and paste an organization chart from the web or any other source. Use WORD draw: use textboxes and lines. Background: Organization is a way of gaining some control over an unreliable environment Thus, from an organization’s (firm, company) perspective, organization is a way of gaining control of the processes, which produce an end product or service. You recall that the environment provides an organization with inputs, which include raw materials, human resources, and financial resources. Then, these raw materials with the assistance of human and financial resources produce a service or product, also referred to as throughput, which involves technology. The product or service produced, or output, goes to customers. Ultimately, it is the uncertainty and complexity of the environment and the technology used that determine the complexity of an organization. To understand how companies/firms organize their business processes, you will select one of the following businesses to organize: 1. A copy or printing shop 2. A fast-food restaurant And I select 2. "A-fast-food restaurant" Please answer the following questions: 1. After you have selected one of the two businesses above, write down the mission or purpose of the organization in a few sentences. 2. What are the specific tasks that must be completed to accomplish the mission (your business objective/output)? Think about the input→throughput→output system, when you are describing specific tasks. 3. Based on the specifics in number 2, develop an organizational chart. Remember, each position in the chart will perform a specific task or is responsible for a certain outcome. 4. You are in your third year of operation, and your business has been very successful. You want to add a second location a few miles away. What issues will you face running the business at two locations? 5. Five more years go by and the business has grown to five locations in two cities. How do you keep in touch with it all? a) What issues of control and coordination have arisen? b) Draw an up-to-date organizational chart and explain your rationale for it. 6. Twenty years later you have 75 business locations in 5 states. a) What are the issues and problems that have to be dealt with now that your organization has grown geographically and how can those problems be addressed through organizational structure? b) Draw an organizational chart for these 75 locations in 5 states.

Management and Organizational Behavior (MGMT307), Winter 2014

Assignment 3

Due, Thursday, February 27, 2013

YOU AND DESIGNING YOUR ORGANIZATION[1]

Background:

Organization is a way of gaining some control over an unreliable environment   Thus, from an organization’s (firm, company) perspective, organization is a way of gaining control of the processes, which produce an end product or service.   You recall that the environment provides an organization with inputs, which include raw materials, human resources, and financial resources.  Then, these raw materials with the assistance of human and financial resources produce a service or product, also referred to as throughput, which involves technology.  The product or service produced, or output, goes to customers.    Ultimately, it is the uncertainty and complexity of the environment and the technology used that determine the complexity of an organization.

To understand how companies/firms organize their business processes, you will select one of the following businesses to organize:

1. A copy or printing shop
2. A fast-food restaurant: I select number2 “A fast-food restaurant”

Please answer the following questions:

1. After you have selected one of the two businesses above, write down the mission or purpose of the organization in a few sentences.
2. What are the specific tasks that must be completed to accomplish the mission (your business objective/output)?  Think about the inputàthroughputàoutput system, when you are describing specific tasks.
3. Based on the specifics in number 2, develop an organizational chart. Remember, each position in the chart will perform a specific task or is responsible for a certain outcome.
4. You are in your third year of operation, and your business has been very successful.  You want to add a second location a few miles away.  What issues will you face running the business at two locations?
5. Five more years go by and the business has grown to five locations in two cities.  How do you keep in touch with it all? 

a) What issues of control and coordination have arisen?

 b) Draw an up-to-date organizational chart and explain your rationale for it. 

1. Twenty years later you have 75 business locations in 5 states. 

a) What are the issues and problems that have to be dealt with now that your organization has grown geographically and how can those problems be addressed through organizational structure? 

b)  Draw an organizational chart for these 75 locations in 5 states.

Your assignment should be no longer than two typed pages, single spaced, excluding your organizational charts.  Your organizational chart must be typed.  Do not copy and paste an organization chart from the web or any other source.  I suggest you use WORD draw:  use textbo