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The Impact Of Organizational Structure In Effective Management Of Nigerian Organizations
[A CASE STUDY OF NIGERIAN BREWERY PLC, ENUGU]
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We can therefore describe functional structure in terms of dividing
tasks, jobs and delegating authority thus this provides some aspect of
major challenges faced by management. Management is expected to make the
appropriate analysis that will help in the designing of an effective
organizational structure for any organization. A sound organizational
structure activities are directed towards co-ordinating and controlling
the overall outset of an organization and its members. Therefore it
becomes a sanctioned network of interaction and relationships between
positions, functions and occupants and also a means through which
management attempt to achieve organizational goals. This emphasizes the
fact the structure is the result from organizational design. Thus, it is
far from surprise that it has been the subject of intensive study. All
organizations have some form of more or less formalized structure which
has been defined by Child (1997:284) as comprising all the tangible and
regularly occurring features which help to shape their member’s
behaviourâ€. Structures incorporate a network of roles and relationships
that collective effort is explicitly organized to achieve specified
ends. The structure of an organization can be regarded as a framework
for getting things done. It consists of units, function, division,
department and formally constituted work teams unto which activities
related to particular processes, projects, products markets, customer,
geographical areas or professional disciplines are grouped together. The
structure indicates who is accountable for directing co-ordinating and
carrying out these activities and defines management hierarchies. The
chain of command – thus spelling out, broadly, who is responsible to
whom for what and each level in the organization. The classical theorist
passed the idea of one best way of structuring an organization
effectively. Unfortunately the answer provided by the decades of
systematic research has proved that this notion is impossible because
organizations form wide range of internal and external conditions that
there cannot be a single structure or design that will prove successful
for all. This idea has been confirmed by the modern theorists stating
that the best organizational structure is the one that works for the
firm’s situation that moment. As this basic fact have become
increasingly apparent, a new perspective on organizational design known
as the contingency approach has taken form. People and environment in
the above factor function with the key dimensions of organization
structure which includes department, chain of command, span of control
and centralization. The above facts present a lot of challenges for
modern managers. For the purpose of this project research work,
structural designment should plan the organization structure to suit
with the organization’s goals in both implicit and explicit manner, and
to understand the foreign factors of nature, models, dimensional level,
determinant variables and the classification of structure which will
bring efficiency and effectiveness in all levels. Firms wishing to slow
their entire organizational set up usually do so by preparing a company
manual containing policy and objective chart for major and minor
organizational units. Job descriptions and specifications and standard
procedures. Their portion of the structure presented in the chart shows
two types of dimensions. The first is the Verticut dimension which is
cut into a number of levels of authority known as service levels. The
second is the horizontal dimension which is cut into functions or groups
of functions. The structure of an organization affects not only
productivity and economic efficiency but also the morale and job
satisfaction of the workforce. Getting the structure right is the first
step in organizational days.
Structure should be designed, therefore,
so as to encourage the willing participation of members of the
organization and effective organizational performance.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]The topic of this study is Impact of Organizational Structure in Effective Management of Nigerian Organization (A study of Nigerian Brewery Plc, Enugu State. The researcher adopted the descriptive survey design. The researcher used both the primary, and secondary sources of Data in the course of the study. The primary data was sourced through the instrument of questionnaire and oral interview while secondary data was sourced through texts books, magazines, journals and internet. The Population o ... Continue reading---
