Examples of Task processes in the following topics:
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- In the execution of a task, hierarchical organizations usually have different levels of task processes.
- Departmentalization is the process of grouping individuals into departments and grouping departments into total organizations.
- Team - departmentalization by teams of people brought together to accomplish specific tasks
- Centralization increases consistency in the processes and procedures that employees use in performing tasks.
- Centralization allows for rapid, department-wide decision-making; there is also less duplication of work because fewer employees perform the same task.
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- Assigning responsibility of specific tasks or processes to specific individuals or groups.
- Accountability is critical to the action plan process.
- When an organization implements specific programs, it must acquire the requisite resources, develop the process, train, and perform process testing, documentation, and integration with legacy processes.
- Most strategic plans address high-level initiatives and overarching goals but are not always translated into the day-to-day projects and tasks required to achieve the plan.
- The strategic management process never ends.
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- As a result, flexibility to tailor the job design for both organizational effectiveness and employee job satisfaction is a significant, ongoing part of the job design process.
- Once an individual is hired to perform a specific set of duties, both management and human resources should assist in preparing the individual to accomplish these tasks.
- The manager may find it useful to ask a few questions during this process, but it is important not to make the employee uncomfortable (which would skew the results).
- Supervisors can also gather data on what is working and what is not, allowing them to edit and improve task assignments.
- Employees or the supervisor can fill these out, identifying what tasks are being done early, on-time, or later (they can also note quality and resource efficiency).
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- While the substance of the tasks involved in teamwork may vary from team to team, there are three processes that are common to how teamwork gets done: the transition process, action processes, and interpersonal processes.
- During each of these processes, specific sets of activities occur.
- Monitoring milestones and goals: tracking progress toward completion of tasks and activities
- Coordination: organizing and managing the flow of team activities and tasks
- Interpersonal processes include activities that occur during both the transition and action processes.
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- It is particularly useful for projects that have interdependent steps and/or processes.
- This includes a list of tasks and the time (duration) that each task should take to complete, and the sequence of and dependencies between tasks (such as "Step A has to be finished before moving to step B").
- They can determine which tasks need to be completed first and how much time can be spent on those tasks before they delay other parts of the project.
- The cumulative process of transforming various independent efforts into an interdependent value-added proposition is often complex; CPM/PERT charts allow project managers to visualize tasks chronologically.
- Outline business processes within project management utilizing the critical path method (CPM) as a control function and diagram projects within project management using the program evaluation review technique (PERT) chart
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- Specific organizing duties involve the assignment of tasks, the grouping of tasks into departments, and the assignment of authority and allocation of resources across the organization.
- It is a set of formal tasks assigned to individuals and departments.
- Responsibility is an employee's duty to perform assigned tasks or activities.
- As each structure will create a different organizational approach to operations, it is critical to consider how the selection of a structure will affect the business process.
- The management process involves tasks and goals of planning, organizing, directing, and controlling.
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- Management is tasked with both creating culture and accurately communicating it across the organization.
- While it is too simplistic to say that culture is a top-down communicative process, there is relevance to the idea that culture generally begins with the founders of the organization and the values they emphasize in the organizational growth and hiring process.
- Some of the most critical of these are structure, hierarchy, mission and vision statements, employee handbooks, hiring processes, and employee training and initiation.
- Human resource professionals are tasked with identifying candidates with culturally consistent perspectives and with underlining the importance of cultural considerations in interviews and on-boarding processes.
- This organization triangle illustrates the idea that structure, process, and the people involved all contribute to the culture of an organization.
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- Task behavior concerns the actions required of followers and how they should be conducted.
- The leader instructs the followers on how, what, where, and when to do a certain task.
- This is primarily task behavior.
- S2 leading is still primarily task behavior, but now it includes some relationship behavior.
- Decisions involve a lot of input from the followers, and the process and responsibility now lie with followers.
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- A virtual team is a temporary group created to accomplish specific tasks by using technology to collaborate remotely.
- A virtual team is a group of individuals in different geographic locations who use technology to collaborate on work tasks and activities.
- Parallel teams are highly task-focused and draw on individuals from different functional areas and locations.
- While they generally complete their work on a defined schedule, parallel teams may not be disbanded but may instead remain to take on a subsequent set of tasks.
- They may be formed to develop new products, deliver a new technology system, or redesign operational processes.
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- Indeed, the first three characteristics (skill variety, task variety and task significance) pertain to the meaningfulness of the work.
- Pictured as a process flow, the characteristics and psychological states operate in continuous feedback loop that allows employees to continue to be motivated by thoroughly owning and understanding the work in which they are involved.