Guidelines for Separate Functions in An Organization

By Adriana Noton

An organization which works for the city can be organized in a way that helps maintain the objectives in an effective and efficient manner. Use the following guidelines to separate functions in an effective manner.

During the design of the organization, compare the setup of similar organizations. Management still needs to carefully examine how their organization is designed. According to the type of organization: public services, health, recycling, or waste management, there are guidelines that can help with this.

Think about the objectives that the organization wants to meet. During the planning process, choose the approaches according to what still needs to be done.

How can tasks be divided so that individuals or groups can be given responsibility for doing the tasks. When the tasks have been grouped into certain jobs, what type of power and responsibility needs to be given?

Who is responsible for making decisions and how should it be done? How particular should roles be? Who should be in control of the work being done? How can job descriptions be created to cover both functions and accountabilities?

How should members communicate and coordinate with each other? How should communication with outside organizations be done?

All employees should report to one person, when possible. They should also be aware of who that person is. When deciding who reports to what manager, think if each manager can effectively supervise that many people.

Create a document of the design using charts, job descriptions, policies and procedures so members will have a clear picture of how things are run.

With most work being done by teams, knowing how to create an effective team and give them support is important.

There are various types of teams. The type used depends on what the team needs to accomplish. They are known as formal, informal, committees, problem solving teams, self directed and self managed teams.

Having knowledge of how the teams life works is beneficial. There are several phases that they go through. These phases include: forming, storming, norming, performing, closing and celebration.

There are guidelines for creating a team.

Objectives: need to be clear, specific, measurable, acceptable to members, realistic, and have a time frame to be started and stopped. Include input from other members of the organization when designing and wording these objectives. Write these

objectives down for eventual communication to and discussion with all team members.

Establish clear objectives for effectiveness. Write the objectives down to be given to the team members.

Decide when the team will start working together and when it will stop if necessary. Give this to all team members.

Consider the degree of know-how required to attain the objectives. Make sure there is someone on the team who can manage the meetings. Try to add diversity to the group. Make it possible for all members to be able to attend meetings.

Decide how many people will be in the group, when they will meet and who the leader is and how many people will work with the community.

Think about how much it would be to pay employees to attend the meetings and what supplies and any other items may cost.

The first meeting should be used to discuss the group objectives. Why each person was chosen and how the organization will benefit from the objectives. Discuss the time frame to accomplish the objective and who the leader is. When and where team meetings will be should also be noted.

Supervisors need to make it a point to be available and provide resources and support when needed. Monitor the progress of the team. Provide encouragement and visibility to the team. Management needs to coordinate with one another so that all team members are able to attend the meetings and take care of appropriate questions from citizen. - 33385

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