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Phase II: Organizing 

(Chapter 12: Designing)

Overview: An organization’s mission and objectives are established by planning, however, managers must design an organization that is capable of achieving the desired results.  To effectively pursue the HSOs/HSs mission and objectives, managers but develop intentional patterns and relationships between people and other resources.  The resulting structure is called the organizational design, and the efforts and activities are the organizing function of management.  Designing, or organization design is defined according to Longest and Darr (2014) as “the arrangement of responsibilities, authority, and flow of information within an organization (p.583).” How well managers carry out the designing function is critical to how well their organizations perform.

For this phase of the project complete the following:

I.    Identify various individual positions available in the HSO/HS (i.e. GB, CEO, 
    PSO, LIPS, 1st Level Managers, etc)
II.    Identify and Describe the HSOs departments, team (workgroups); cluster of workgroups
III.    Identify and discuss any inter-organizational relationships (i.e. horizontal or vertical integrations, strategic alliances, 
IV.    Describe the functions and responsibilities of the various position and departments
a.    Span of Control
i.    Tall or Flat
V.    Identify and describe the HSO’s/HS’s organization design. Refer Mintzberg’s Five Basic Organization Designs:
a.    Simple Structure
b.    Machine Bureaucracy
c.    Professional Bureaucracy
d.    Divisionalized Form
e.    Adhocracy
Be sure to identify the design accordingly to the five interrelated parts provided Mintzberg: strategic apex, operating core, middle line, technostructure, support staff. 

**Remember the organization design is ubiquitous and continuous**



Grading Rubric:
Criteria    Points
Identify various individual positions    15pts
Described HSOs departments, teams, etc    15pts
Inter-organizational relationships (horizontal/vertical integration; strategic alliances)    20pts
Functions and Responsibilities; Span of Control    20pts
HSO/HS organizational design    20pts
APA format; 
Grammar, Punctuation & Spelling    10pts