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As management teams devise plans for new organizations to engage in they need to take on resources to help them achieve their goals. The only way to know what resources the company needs is by utilizing the organization management function. Planning and organization functions go in hand in hand. In this paper we will look at the organization function and examine how it is used by management to help attain overall goals. We will also look at how the United States Army uses the organization function to maintain its operational readiness by maintaining their physical assets and personnel.
So before we can begin to discuss organizing we must first know what organizing is. The encyclopedia states that organizing is "the management function that usually follows after planning, and it involves the assignment of tasks, the grouping of tasks into departments and the assignment of authority and allocation of resources across the organization" (Organizing, 2005). It is in this phase that management teams need to identify new jobs and responsibilities, gather and assign resources and recruit perspective employees who are highly skilled to the company. While in the organizing function management arranges the monetary, physical, and informational needs as well as the human and other needed resources to reach the company's goals which were set in the planning phase. The main focus of the organization function for the management team is the coordination, delegation of tasks and responsibility, and control of assigned duties which will set the pace of operations within the company. Also the flow of information that will be needed within a company is set during organizing.
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