Elements of Effective Organizations

Elements of Effective Organizations
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Elements of Effective Organizations
Introduction
The effectiveness of an organization in terms of growth and survival depends on its ability to meet the needs and demands of its owners, employees, and other stakeholders, including the community in which it serves, the government, customers, suppliers, and financiers. Furthermore, the success of modern organizations depends on their culture, structure, communication, and leadership styles, as well as corporate social responsibility. With the impacts of globalization, organizations need to put in place strong ethical standards and core values to remain effective. This paper explores the components for effective organizational structure and how such structure may differ in domestic and global settings. As one of the elements of an effective organization, the paper will discuss communication strategies, problem-solving, and decision-making approaches required for an organization to be efficient. Finally, since leadership is critical for an organization to achieve its objectives, the paper recommends a leadership style that contributes to organizational effectiveness and justifies reasons that make the approaching sound.
Components for effective organization structure
Organizational structure refers to how a company communicates, how roles and responsibilities are shared, and its ability to remain flexible in times of change. Organizational structure entails issues related to accountability and authority and the kind of behavior/culture that is expected from the employees. More importantly, a company’s organizational structure defines how it communicates with the external environment. Different companies assume different organizational cultures but all these share some common elements.
One component of a good organizational structure is specialization. This refers to how tasks and responsibilities are disseminated within the company. Tasks are distributed among few dedicated parts with each of these being designed to attain the overall goal of the task in question (Gurkan & Tukelturk, 2017) More specifically, jobs are broken down into several tasks which are assigned to different people. Tasks can be executed in parallel or sequence with specific departments or individuals specializing in certain tasks as opposed to all. Specialization is more evident among global organizations but can also be found within domestic organizations.
Another component of organizational structure is departmentalization where jobs are grouped. Functional departmentalization entails grouping tasks in line with the function they play in an organization. For example, the accounts department handles tasks related to accounts whereas the manufacturing department is charged with manufacturing activities. Product departmentalization on the other hand entails grouping jobs to represents specific product lines while geographical departmentalization is related to the geographical location of each unit. This type of specialization is popular among global organizations, which have an operation in different countries. Process departmentalization is based on product or customer flow and is found in both domestic and global or...