11-25-2013, 09:20 PM
The basic purpose of this assignment is to enable students to:
• Comprehend the structure of organizations for the fulfillment of complex tasks
• Recognize the ways that informal interaction alters the structure and operations of organization and understanding of the problems of improper functioning.
Normative organizations
Normative organizations usually work on the basis of voluntary membership. Many of us are members of some sports club, Human Rights NGOs, hospital, psychiatric institute or environmental protection agencies. But some of these organizations run successfully whereas rest fails to get success. Why, it is so, why in some situations these are successful whereas in others these are not? What factors contribute in it-individual or structural? The dilemma is not just restricted to volunteer organization, many other utilitarian and coercive organization face the similar circumstances and dysfunctioning. There are many factors behind this dysfunctionaing, some organizations successfully tackle these whereas others unable to identify the root cause and suffer.
Following are the scenarios illustrating dysfunctioning of two normative organizations; you are supposed to analyze each scenario and identify:
1. Problem within; (05)
o Structure
o Decisions styles
2. Violation (02)
3. Possible solution, how can you make difference? (03)
Scenario 01.In a football club in Liari, Karchi, the president has been working in the club since age of 10 years. He has spent all his life playing football and had long affiliation with the club. As he is the most experienced person who has served the team for 30 years so, he has also been engaged in advisory committee, coaching, managing teams and is representative in states football association. His efforts and expertise are acknowledged by all and he is respected by all the people. He knows much as compared to others so trivial matters are also decided by him. This made him the linchpin in everything the club did resultantly his work load increased and his health has suffered under pressure. No one is delegated the authority to work autonomously, and feels apprehension of making the wrong decision without first getting his input.
Scenario 02.
An association is established by mothers in Lahore as school-mothers group in order to discuss the issues of their kids admitted in the school. A new lady joined the group who has three children in nearby school. As she has prior experience of such type of association, so the president of the association overloaded her with multi tasks which were pending for last few years. In order to establish the monopoly, the president did not give any background or historical information of the projects to that women resultantly she was overwhelmed and frustrated and left the association.
Learning Outcomes:After attempting this assignment student will be able to:• Understand the structure of normative organizations and its functioning
• Apply their analytical skills to sort out the issues of organizational improper functioning
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Note: This is a non-graded activity. Its purpose is to enhance your command on the subject. Its marks will not be included in your final assessment.
Important Instructions:
Please read the following instructions carefully before attempting the assignment solution.
Deadline:Make sure that you upload the solution file before the due date. No assignment will be accepted through e-mail once the solution has been uploaded by the instructor.
Formatting guidelines:
• Use the font style “Times New Roman”/ “Arial” and font size “12”.
• It is advised to compose your document in MS-Word 2003.
• Use black and blue font colors only.
Solution guidelines:
Every student will work individually and has to write in the form of an analytical assignment.
• Give the answer according to question.
• For acquiring the relevant knowledge don’t rely only on handouts but watch the video lectures and use other reference books also.
Rules for Marking
Please note that your assignment will not be graded or graded as Zero (0) if:
• It has been submitted after due date
• The file you uploaded does not open or is corrupt
• It is in any format other than doc (MS. Word)
• It is cheated or copied from other students, internet, books, journals etc…
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