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Managing People and Organisations
Organisations
When you think of the term organisation it suggests a structure and a purpose.
Let’s will consider business organisations you are familiar with, focusing on their structure and purpose!
The Organisation
There are different types of Organisation:
Self-employed
Private Limited Companies
Public Limited Companies
Voluntary Organisations
Charities
Public Corporations
Government-funded service providers
Local Authority-funded providers
Organisations
Every organisation is made up of functions
Examples:
Finance
Human Resources (Personnel)
Operations (the making or doing)
Sales and Marketing
Management
How do you build an organisation?
Using the areas of its functions …show more content…

Sourcing work locally and being environmentally friendly.
Objectives
Objectives are determined from the main goals within the organisation.
Objectives can be anything from meeting targets in the agreed time to training staff in the latest technology.
A company whose main goal is to reduce labour costs may make it an objective for all managers to check over time claims.

Policy
Organisational policies are basically a set of principles and guide-lines which are have been formulated to direct the company.
H& S Policy, Grievance Policy, Sickness and Absence are common policies that you may have heard of at work.
Clear policies are recognised as an essential part of internal control.
Introduction to Outcome 1
The focus on this assessment will be :-
These five points
Organisations and how they function
Formal and Informal Organisations
Open Systems Theory
Stakeholders
Control Strategies

Systems Theory
Kurt Lewin
Lewin's Equation, B=ƒ(P,E), is a psychological equation of behavior developed by Kurt Lewin . It states that behavior is a function of the person and his or her environment
Lewin
To use the systems theory, it can be summarised as follows:
Inputs – Process – Outputs
Or. . . . .
Business Systems Theory
It can be summarised as follows:

Business Systems Theory
We discussed the Input
What is the Input?
That is all the functions/departments and

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