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प्रश्न
State any two disadvantage functional structure of an organisation
Explain any four disadvantages of functional structure.
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उत्तर १
Disadvantages of a functional structure
- Under the functional structure, every department focuses on its departmental objective instead of organisational objective
- There can be coordination problem in functional structure as different departments and exchange information coordinate with each other in order to achieve the organisational goal
उत्तर २
Disadvantages of a functional structure
- Difficulty in achieving organisation’s goals: Each department becomes more specialised in their own way and less focussed on the organisation’s goals.
- Problems to coordinate: To deal with a large number of diversified activities simultaneously, a high degree of coordination is required. This coordination becomes difficult among departments.
- Inflexibility: In each department, all the employees become more specialised in one particular activity. Over the years, they become inflexible to handle the diversified activities in an organisation.
- Difficult to fix accountability: If each department focussed on their own objectives, then there is a chance of a conflict of interests. In this case, business enterprise fails to achieve the set goal and it becomes difficult to identify any particular department for accountability.
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'Steelo Ltd.' decided to set-up its steel manufacturing factory in the backward area of Orissa where very less job opportunities were available. People of that area welcomed this effort of 'Steelo Ltd.' To attract people to work in its factory it also decided to provide many other facilities like school. hospital. market etc. in the factory premises. 'Steelo Ltd.' started earning huge profits. Another competing company asked its production manager 'Aslam' to investigate the reasons of earning huge profits by 'Steelo Ltd.' Aslam found that in both the companies there was systematic coordination among the various activities to achieve organisational goals. Every employee knew who was responsible and accountable to whom. The only difference was that in his organisation communication took place only through the scalar chain whereas 'Steelo Ltd.' was allowing flow of communication in all the directions as per the requirement which lead to faster spread of information as well as quick feedback.
a. Identify the type of organisation which permits 'Steelo Ltd.' the flow of communication in all the directions.
b. State another advantage of the type of organisation identified in (a) above.
c. State any two values which 'Steelo Ltd.' wanted to communicate to the society
Answer the following question:
Aradhana and Gandharv are heads of two different departments in 'Yumco Ltd.' 'They are efficient managers and are able to motivate the employee of their respective departments to improve performance. However, their drive to excel in their own sphere of activity instead of giving emphasis on objectives of the enterprise has hindered the interaction between the departments that Aradhana and Gandharv are heading. Often there are inter-departmental conflicts and they have become incompatible. This has proved to be harmful in the fulfillment of the organisational objectives. The situation has deteriorated to such an extent that the CEO of 'Yumco Ltd.' has hired a consultant, Rashmi, to resolve the problem. After studying the situation closely, Rashmi found that the problem has arisen due to inflexibility and a narrow perspective on the part of both Aradhana and Gandharv. She is of the view that this situation is a result of the type of organisational structure 'Yumco Ltd.’ has adopted.
From the above information, identify the organisational structure adopted by ‘Yumco Ltd.’ and state any three advantages of the structure so identified.
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Read the following text and answer the questions given below:
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Situation 1: It is expected that employees who are performing similar tasks work under the same department. So the company now has HR, Marketing and Finance departments. The division is based on specific functions.
Situation 2: There are similarities in the tasks performed within the same department.
Situation 3: The profit is increasing month by month due to the success of this structure of the organisation.
Situation 4: There has been minimum duplication of efforts as the same department is taking care of single function.
Why do you think the profit is increasing as given in Situation 3?
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- Also, state any two advantages and two limitations of the type of organisation identified in (i) above.
