Organisations and mangment

In Vishs' lecture and Robs' tutorials, I have learnt and inferred and self studied many new elements of  organisations, organisation structures and management.
Organisations have been around since the start of civilisation. Organisation structure is what that keeps the organisation alive, even animals and insects such as wolves and ants have a form a structured orgaisation.

Fayol, a man credited as the inventor of management states that there are 6 managerial activities in an organisations.

1.Forecasting- predicting what might happen in the future

2.Planning- making a course of action

3.Organizing- allocating tasks to separate departments, units, individuals

4.Commanding- providing direction

5.Coordinating- making sure tasks are being carried out and people are working together

6.Controlling- monitoring progress

A structured organisation is essential to achieve objectives, while objectives could differ greatly from one organisation to another based on the nature of business. Organisations have developed ways of organising, delegating and recognising strength in their employees so that everyone's effort is channel productivty, directed towards achieving the right objectives.

As consumers, organisations both big and small have impacted our lives one way or another. Buying a frying pan from 'John Lewis', manufactured by 'Tefal', we have now experienced service from 'John Lewis' and product quality from 'Tefal'.

Industrial revolution, brought about by factors from past and present, including changes in technology, global competition, taxes, regulation, countries that are shifting from a commuist state of law to a more liberal democratic society, along with open participation in international trade.

In every business you will find that there are some features common to every organisation. Features such as different roles include, interpersonal, decisional, and informational.
An Informational would often be the likes of an informational disseminator, a spokesperson and monitor. An Interpersonal job role is someone like a figurehead, liason officer and leader, someone who is firm and impartial. The Decisional roles are like entrepreneurs, disturbance handlers, resource allocators and negotiators.

In an oraganisation, social arrangements is another aspect in which activities such as job coordination, allocation and supervision are directed to achieve the organisations' objectives.It is usually how people view the organisation from the outside. For example, the team leader delegates tasks to his subordinates and makes the subgroups/division of labour, they will produce better results as they are completeing task(s) based on their skill and work experience.

An organisations' structure will directly impact the performance of the organization.
The basic features of an organization structure are spans of control and levels of decentralization.
A change in structure would mean a change in both and in turn affecting the overall organisations' performance.




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Futuristic 3000

That is the name of our end product.
 Last Friday, the ISC groups were tasked to come up with a new, never before seen product based on the elements of 3 randomly chosen items such as a sock, glue stick and a mobile phone etc as Rob(our lecturer) explained.


We were tearing our hair in agony. How in the world can we make something that comprises of a Sock a Glue stick and a Mobile Phone.

Yes, the glue stick, sock and mobile phone were the 3 items my group chose.
We figured that we did not have to use the 3 items as they were to come up with a new product. So much for thinking out of the box.
And so we figured..
Sock was "body hugging"


Glue stick was able to take any shape



Mobile phone had like rubbery texture and vibrations and everything else a mobile phone can do.


BAMM! We came up with the 'Futuristic 3000'.
A pair of ordinary looking gloves that works wonders.
Since we did not have to actually produce the physical glove we decided to give it some wacky functions.

Picking up calls- Simply place your index finger onto your ear and the say 'Answer'. The glove will then be able to translate voice signals from your mobile phone onto your index finger and in turn ACTING as a speaker. Your thumb will then act as a microphone. Pretty ingenius don't you think?

Warmers- With radiation producing heat, our gloves could transfer the radiation onto the surface of the gloves and repell the cold during winter.

One Size Fits™- Like the sock, the glove will take the shape of your hand once connected wirelessly.

This mini-research project has helped us not only see that the crazy ideas are sometimes feasible but also get to know each other better as friends.


Till then
Nigel