Commerce: Management Functions: Organising

• During the introduction, we examined what management is
• We said management is the art of doing work through others
• Also, it was mentioned that management can be defined in terms of its functions/duties that every manager is expected to perform
• These functions include planning, organising, coordinating, leading and controlling
• Together they are known as the five functions of management
• In this post, we will look at organising
• Often organising is carried out after the planning process/function has been completed
• Organising is the management function that is concerned with:
  • taking objectives/plans and breaking them down into smaller everyday tasks that can be implemented
  • grouping these tasks together into subsections and departments, for example, creating a marketing department, finance department etc to carry out related tasks so as to achieve the organisation’s objectives
  • and allocating resources to these subsections and departments to ensure that plans(objectives) are achieved
  • This also involves formally creating what is known as an organisational structure i.e. create a clear guideline of who reports to who within the business
  • the assigning tasks to specific people so that they can carry them out
• While planning is about creating plans and setting objectives
• Organising is about preparing to and putting this plan in action

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