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Organizational norms are written guidelines that govern an organization and must be adhered to by all members. Key principles include having defined objectives, ensuring responsibility accompanies authority, and maintaining a clear chain of command. These norms facilitate effective management, communication, and operational efficiency within the organization.
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Organizational norms are written guidelines that govern an organization and must be adhered to by all members. Key principles include having defined objectives, ensuring responsibility accompanies authority, and maintaining a clear chain of command. These norms facilitate effective management, communication, and operational efficiency within the organization.
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ORGANIZATIONAL NORMS
It is everything that is written and approved, that governs the organization, and
that must be respected by all its members. A norm must
to be written in detail in the business management documents:
Organization and functions manual, training plans, plans
strategic, among others.
The principles or norms constitute the driving force of the
organization, they also guide how to apply the material elements and
how to make the most of the effort and dedication of human resources.
Currently, there exists a set of fundamental norms that still
are considered as the main guidelines for the establishment of a
optimal and correct organization, among them the following are indicated:
Every organization must be established under a defined objective:
For an organization to be effective, it requires that its objectives and
main goals should be precise and must be supported by the plan of
organization, maintaining the policies to carry out the action.
In the organization, responsibility must be accompanied by authority:
The authority cannot be considered separate from the
responsibility, hence wherever authority is to be exercised, it will arise.
always authority and will give rise to the chain of command.
In the organization, the delegation of authority must be downward:
In an established organizational system, authority is imposed.
from the upper level to the lower level, in descending order. If it does not exist
a design of authority can lead to poor communication, lack of
administrative control and it can lead to evasion of authority.
In the organization, the division of labor must be adequate.
The functions that are developed in an organization must
to be established as guides to be assigned to the different specific areas
established to prevent duplication of functions.
In the organization, each employee must report to only one supervisor:
In any organization, the basic principle of unity is important.
command, establishing subordinate responsibilities to prevent
conflict of interest in such a way that each official or employee responds
before a person or boss.
The organization must have a structure that is quite simple:
The type of organization that is adopted should be simple, avoiding the
complexity; the structure must be practical, functional from the point of
view of cost minimization.
In the organization, no boss should invade the other's area:
The lack of an appropriate determination of functions causes that
bosses of the same line develop tasks from other fields that do not
correspond to their scope of action. Therefore, it is necessary for each chief
should be limited only to its corresponding area of action.
The rules allow a company to evolve.
regardless of who their owners or main shareholders are
above the company permanently. With the implementation of some
clear rules of the game known to all employees, only required
make a basic management control to follow up on a
company and making the corresponding corrections so that the
normal production processes of the company do not stop and all the
the company stays in tune.