BMA lesson 5

 An Organization and its structure

One of the most important duties of every management body is to create a structure that helps them to run the organization successfully. 

The term organization is can be defined as an entity, a group or people or a union of association created to establish a common goal. In business enterprises, we call it business organization. Hence, whenever we see organization being used in this course, we mean a business type.

Secondly,o structure is a system of leadership created to regulate the affairs of the people. It functions from with powers from the top to the lowest part of the organization. 

The structure is designed to give the most powerful or key leaders in the organization to have powers given to them to control those under them.

In any typical organization, management creates the structure and represents it in the form of a chart to allow people to see  how their leadership works in the organization.

An organizational chart can also be called organogram. In a typical organizational chart, there is usually arrows moving from the top to the bottom. Some arrows too move sideways.

All arrows pointing from the top represent  authorities given to the top people at management level to work over their subordinates  under them ( administration ).

Any arrow moving in sideways represents a help or assistance from one department to another on the same level ( only administration ). 

Within an organizational chart, we also have the number of people who are asigned to work under a leader. We call this the span of control. If a manager for a department has three people working under him, for example, we can conclude that the span of control of the manager is 3, meaning, he controls three workforce. 

To be able to draw an organogram and to represent it well for authority flow, a student must under the types of authority found within an organization. Authority will be treated in the following topics.