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Content: I: Objectives of The Report
Content: I: Objectives of The Report
Reporter Number: 14
Content:
II. INTRODUCTION
What is organization structure all about? Assuming that we are the team
members of a specific company having a new promoted CEO. Just as we looked to
our team members to decide how to motivate them and make them more productive,
we began to study organizational structure to determine how that had an influence.
Organizational structure brings together Taylor’s ideas of work specialization, Fayol’s
ideas of chain of command, and Weber’s bureaucracy to add to the productivity and
efficiency of business.
Organizational structure defines how job tasks are formally divided, grouped,
and coordinated. The structure of an organization usually features six different
elements such as, work specialization, departmentalization, chain of command, span
of control, and centralization and decentralization. However, one of the fundamental
problems of organization is to decide how much authority should be centralized in
the hands of the Chief Executive and how much should be distributed among the
lower level management and what should be the right degree of centralization or
decentralization. Complete centralization is possible only in a one-man enterprise.
But the moment its scope is enlarged, decentralization becomes inevitable.
This paper will tackle about the importance of centralization and
decentralization in organizing management, the difference of these two elements, the
implication of these in education, and the disadvantages and advantages of these two
elements of structure of organization.
III. Content/Discussion
Centralization
Decentralization
On the other hand, decentralization means delegation of business decisions by
the owners to their subordinates, and then the others further down in the
management hierarchy. Moreover, decentralization in business is when daily
operations and decision-making power are delegated by top management to middle-
and lower-level managers — and sometimes even team members.
Its implications are:
In decentralization, concern diversification of activities can place effectively
since there is more scope for creating new departments.
Employees at the lowest level will become more proactive with their task and
they may feel that they are important to the company because of their
participation in planning, brainstorming, and other activities or entire
business operation.
These are the Importance of centralization are the following: Achieving the
uniformity of action, facilitating integration, promoting personal leadership, and
handling emergencies. While, the importance of decentralization are: relieves top
management of some burden of decision making, gives managers more freedom and
independence in decision making, promotes the development of general managers,
encourages the assumption of authority and responsibility, makes comparison of the
performance of different organizational units possible, facilitates product
diversification, and aids in adaptation to a fast-changing environment.
Centralization Advantages:
Facilities Evaluation
will bring in economies of large scale
Co-ordination of activities of various segments is also facilitated
ensures coordination among all the subordinates
Uniformity in Action
Disadvantages of Centralization:
Decentralization Advantages:
Decentralization Disadvantages:
Over the last few decades decentralization of school management has occurred in
most education systems around the globe. If implemented well, decentralization has the
potential to improve education quality and learning outcomes. For the implication of this
topic to education, decentralization is much more used than centralization in terms of
education learning outcomes.
Decentralization within education requires careful considerations of which
elements of the system to decentralize and to what local level. There is still
insufficient evidence to draw conclusions about the direct and indirect relationship
between decentralization and learning outcomes and the decentralization of resource
mobilization and allocation leads to especially mixed effects.
Research suggests that decentralization of administrative functions to school-
based management can result in greater empowerment and collaboration among
teachers, a greater school-wide focus on professional development, and a greater
sense of accountability. Decentralization of curriculum development rests on the
belief that it will give more room for local variance and relevance, potentially leading
to more motivated students and a better culture of learning. The major factors
determining the effects of any form of decentralization are whether local educators
are equipped with skills, knowledge and attitudes to accomplish the task, and
whether upper-level authorities supply the support they need.
(https://learningportal.iiep.unesco.org.decentralization-of-education-
management)
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