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Designing an Organization

Designing an Organization. Group Exercise. Objectives. To create an organization design based on the four characteristics common to all organizations To assess the impact of consistency or inconsistency among the four characterstics. Instructions.

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Designing an Organization

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  1. Designing an Organization • Group Exercise

  2. Objectives • To create an organization design based on the four characteristics common to all organizations • To assess the impact of consistency or inconsistency among the four characterstics

  3. Instructions • Break into groups. Nominate an observer/quality control manager in each group. • Listen to the assignment and the rules. • You have 15 minutes to design your organizational structure, practice your workflow, and arrive at a name for your organization. • Pick a word and practice generating sentences using your organization structure.

  4. The Assignment • Your company manufactures words into meaningful sentences. • Your company is highly competitive because there is great demand for high quality sentences. • Your company therefore focuses on competing in two areas: volume and quality. • Market research indicates that sentences with 5 or more words are in high demand. Manufacturing sentences of 5 or more words will keep your company on top.

  5. Materials • Each group receives a word • The letters in the word serve as your material to produce new sentences • For example, if your word is “always” you can produce the following sentences, as well as others: • Al saw a way. • Sal was away.

  6. The Rules • A letter in the word can be used more than once in a sentence, but only once in a word. • A generated word can only be used once in the same sentence. • A generated word can be used more than once in different sentences. • Sentences must be in English. • Nonsense words are not acceptable.

  7. The Rules (cont’d) • Sentences must be grammatically correct. • Slang is not acceptable. • Pluralizing a word in a sentence in order to generate a new sentence does not add to your group’s points. • You can only use letters that are in the word to make your sentences. • Proper names and nouns are acceptable. • Conjunctions are also acceptable (e.g., if you have the letters s, h, e, and another s, you can make “she’s”).

  8. Instructions (cont’d) • Once planning time is complete, you will have 20 minutes to generate as many acceptable sentences as possible. • The group observer/quality control manager should make sure sentences are acceptable and follow the rules. • When time is up, pass written sentences to the front of the room. • Sentences that follow the rules earn 1 point each; sentences that break the rules result in 1 point deduction. • Bonus of 1 point for sentences of 5 or more words.

  9. The Word The word is: HOLLANDAISE You have 20 minutes to produce your products.

  10. Organization Defined An organization is a system of consciously coordinated activities of two or more people

  11. Four Characteristics Common to All Organizations • Hierarchy of authority • Coordination of effort • Division of labor • Common goal

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