This Organization Management document is a comprehensive document describing the
process of planning, organizing, leading, coordinating, and controlling the efforts of
organization members and resources to achieve stated organization goals. The
document is broken down into four easy steps, making it easy to read and informative.
The organization management plan contains standard language commonly used in any
industry. This document is useful, and is a must have documents for business owners
and entrepreneurs.
Organizational Management Primer
Table of Contents
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Introduction .................................................................................................................................... 1
Step 1: Planning ............................................................................................................................. 1
Strategic Planning........................................................................................................................ 2
Step 2: Organizing ......................................................................................................................... 5
Traditional Organizational Structures ......................................................................................... 6
Divisional Structures.................................................................................................................... 6
Matrix Structures ........................................................................................................................ 6
Step 3: Leading .............................................................................................................................. 7
Step 4: Coordinating ...................................................................................................................... 8
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Organizational Management Primer
The Fundamental Necessities of Organizational Management
Introduction
Developing a complete skill set that allows one to be well-versed in organizational management
takes years and lots of practice. That does not mean, however, that the basic foundation of this
critical set of skills cannot be learned by study, and that is the purpose of this Primer – to provide
you with an introduction to the fundamentals of organizational management.
Organizational management means being able to
appropriately select priorities and goals and to build a
When planning for a year,
plant corn. When planning comprehensive plan for meeting those goals. This
for a decade, plant trees. type of planning encompasses the use of resources –
When planning for life,
human, financial, physical and knowledge-based – in
train and educate people.
its effort to achieve a company’s stated goals. It is a
Chinese Proverb
tall order, but one that pays off in spades when the
organization begins to realize the benefit of proper
planning.
The four key elements in organizational management are: (1) planning; (2) organizing; (3)
leading; and (4) coordinating. We will look at each of these elements separately.
Step 1: Planning
There are several types of planning, however those that apply most closely to business are
strategic planning, project planning, program planning, and business planning, each of which can
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be made up of bits and pieces of other planning methods. For our purposes here, we will focus
primarily on Strategic Planning.
Strategic Planning
The following ten-steps in strategic planning can help you to begin to set company goals and to
meet them using a logical approach.
A Communication Strategy consists of making a determination as to which team members will
be involved in the planning process and what each member’s level of involvement will be in that
process. The subcommittee formed for this purpose should be tasked with figuring out how to
disseminate information to the proper people in your organization and the proper time for doing
so. Consideration must be given to which teams, units or departments will need which pieces of
information in order to continue day-to-day operations, but also who will assist in facilitating
planned growth of or changes to the business.
Establishing a Strategic Planning Task Force from key members who represent all relevant
departments and business units is an important step in the planning process. This work group
must be just that – a group that works during each regularly scheduled meeting. There mu