Description
Below are the questions you needs to required.
Describe the organizing function of management.
Discuss the impact of the informal organization and informal group leaders and how supervisors should deal with them.
Explain the unity-of-command and the span-of-management principles and their applications.
Justify why a supervisor should strive for the ideal organizational structure and work toward this objective.
Compare and contrast departmentalization and alternative approaches for grouping activities and assigning work.
Assess the implications of downsizing for restructuring and suggest alternatives.
List the major factors contributing to organizing effective meetings, especially the supervisors role.
Appraise the importance of self-organization, that is, effective use of your time and talents.
You Make the Call!
Tom Hayes was recently appointed as plant manager of Waldo Electronics by the principal owner and president, Bill Sanders. Tom had worked for more than 20 years in various engineering and managerial positions at the company. The core values of Waldo can be summed up as follows:
In reviewing all of Waldos operations, Tom ascertained that the following were among the firms major policies and approaches:
All employees are paid salaries instead of hourly wages.
Machine operators inspected their own output, made work rules, and participated in the decision-making process.
After initial training, a machine operator was trusted to know what needed to be done and then do it with limited direction.
Every job was stressed as being important.
Tom was grateful that his predecessor George Dean had left the business in good shape. Tom knew that there would be many areas that would need his attention and that there would be some challenges to address and opportunities to improve upon what had previously existed.
Tom spent his first week wandering around the organization. He met with all 110 employees, first in small groups and then each one individually. In the individual meeting, he gave each employee a piece of paper on which there were two questions:
What can I do to help you do a better job?
What should we be doing as an organization to get more customers and improve our bottom line?
Before he analyzed the employees answers to the questions he wondered whether there was something else he could have done during his first week on the job.
The above scenario presents a supervisory situation based on real events to be used for educational purposes. The identities of some or all individuals, organizations, industries, and locations, as well as financial and other information may have been disguised to protect individual privacy and proprietary information. Fictional details may have been added to improve readability and interest.
