Phase II: Organizing (Chapter 12: Designing) Overview: An organization’s mission

Phase II: Organizing (Chapter 12: Designing)
Overview: An organization’s mission and objectives are established by planning, however, managers must design an organization that is capable of achieving the desired results.  To effectively pursue the HSOs/HSs mission and objectives, managers but develop intentional patterns and relationships between people and other resources.  The resulting structure is called the organizational design, and the efforts and activities are the organizing function of management.  Designing, or organization design is defined according to Longest and Darr (2014) as “the arrangement of responsibilities, authority, and flow of information within an organization (p.583).” How well managers carry out the designing function is critical to how well their organizations perform.
For this phase of the project complete the following:
III.Identify and discuss any inter-organizational relationships (i.e. horizontal or vertical integrations, strategic alliances
V. Identify and describe the HSO’s/HS’s organization design. Refer Mintzberg’s Five Basic Organization Designs:
b.Machine Bureaucracy
Be sure to identify the design accordingly to the five interrelated parts provided Mintzberg: strategic apex, operating core, middle line, technostructure,support staff.