Organizing Case
ORGANIZING
Organizing is the act of putting together or rearranging people and other resources to work together to accomplish a common goal. The two articles examines how information systems executive responded to what has been termed organizing visions for information technology, ideas for applying IT. In the article, it was explained that the more “high-flying” the organizing is, the greater its prominence and the more widespread and profound its impact on the corporate imagination. They noted that organizing vision is best viewed as a discursive construction. The article explained that diverse inter-organizational community creates and employs organizing vision of an information system innovation that is central to its early, as well as later, diffusion. The article also theorizes that organizing is seen to reflect the dynamic, interactive relationship between old and new forms as organizations exploit.
The point is no longer that organization does not necessary follow strategy but organization is the strategy. The ability of a firm to share, transfer and diffuse this for competitive advantage depends on how it has been organized. In the articles, it was noted that organizing is not just relevant but inextricable from strategizing and therefore strategy change. In Smith and Graetz article, they begun showing that the concept of dualities is consistent with complexity-thinking. In addition, when applied to organizing forms, dualities represent a practical way of affecting an organizations balance between chaos and order.
The articles concludes that despite the appeal of calls for organizations to become capable of constant change, the advantages of flexibility are affected by the demerits. The study of organizing reveals that change is continuous at micro level but not at the macro level, therefore the relationship between organizing and strategizing can be subsequently be non-linear and recursive.
Organizing as defined by Schermerhorn is the process of arranging people and other resources to work together to accomplish a goal. Webster defines organizing as a way to form coherent unity or functioning whole. Organizing is one of the major functions of management. The organizing function of management defines each position of category of positions on the department. Managers in my company share and divide the responsibilities and authorities within the company to it members. This is done so because organizing can seem