pact on the manager's ability to get work done efficiently. This function empowers a manager to choose the right organizational forms, be they teams, committees, task forces, functional or matrix arrangements, or other specific organizational structures. Managers assign the right skilled and compatible people to work together, each one having clearly defined roles and responsibilities, along with commensurate authority. Managers assign responsibilities to employees so that work gets done and employees can receive broadened experience. Managers allocate the right resources (such as skills, money, equipment, time, and technology) to accomplish the work efficiently.
Organizing is also important for enhancing the quality of work output. Flexible
organizational structures allow companies to better respond to the changes of a dynamic marketplace. Certain organizational forms are superior to others in fostering creativity and inducing innovations. Multifunctional teams are known to be superior in handling conflicts at the interface between design and manufacturing or between R&D and marketing. Teams empowered by management to pursue specific assignments tend to be strongly motivating to the team members.
Engineering managers need to understand the power of organizing and use the
function intelligently.