Organizational structure formalization

Quality System (QS) Formalized business practices that define management responsibilities for organizational structure, processes, procedures, and resources needed to fulfill product/service requirements, customer satisfaction, and continual improvement. 

Compare and contrast different elements of formal and informal organizational structure. 

The first step in a hazard survey program is to formalize the lines of communication. A primary purpose of this communication network is to get critical hazard information to decision makers as quickly as possible so that action can be taken to avert an exposure or accident. Traditional communication routes in most companies do not allow for quick communication between workers and decision makers, and thus serious hazards may not be corrected before an exposure or accident occurs. Each company has an established organizational structure that can be used to set up a formalized communication network. For instance, most companies are broken into departments or work units. These can serve as the primary segments within which workers report hazards. These hazards can be dealt with at the departmental level or communicated to higher-level decision makers for action. 

Formal planning organizational structure is in place with clear roles and responsibilities. There is updated job description for demand planners and managers. 

Organizational structure. The dynamic and constantly evolving set of formal and ad hoc groups, roles, and responsibilities such as NASA s System Safety Office, the Safety and Mission Assurance offices at the NASA centers, formal accident investigation groups, and safety responsibilities within the roles of managers, engineers, and union leaders. 

It would be veiy important to know more about the mindset and stance of different groups toward this shift in classification. For example, one would want to consider Was the shift due to the salience of the need to improve maintenance and turnaround Was this an organizational structure issue (which organization focuses on what aspects of problems) What was Mission Control s reaction to the reclassification Was it heard about by other groups Did reactions to this shift remain underground relative to formal channels of communication ... 

The most important factor affecting the culture is the commitment to health and safety from the top of an organization. This commitment may be shown in many different ways. It needs to have a formal aspect in terms of an organizational structure, job descriptions and a health and safety policy, but it also needs to be apparent during crises or other stressful times. The health and safety procedures may be circumvented or simply forgotten when production or other performance targets are threatened. 

These two firms have both common and distinguishing features. The route for chemists into process management through analytical chemistry is the major similarity and in both firms it was the central mechanism of promotion. In UAC the institutionalization of research and the development of a bureaucratized employment structure was faster. However, Brunner, Mond was much the more successful of the two firms. While there are technical and commercial reasons for this, beyond the mechanisms for the deployment of trained chemists, it seems likely that the more flexible and responsive, and less formalized, systems at Brunner, Mond had some part to play. The UAC approach was related to the firm s complex structure, which was conditioned by the need to integrate the many companies from which it was formed. There are parallels with the kind of organizational structures identified by Chandler in the USA, though that of UAC was crude and driven by contingency. 

Based on our opinion and lessons learned through experience, we have found that the job hazard analysis (JHA) is The Centerpiece and Critical Link to ensure a solid foundation for the safety system. A safety system can be defined as ... the formal, top-down business approach to managing risk, which includes a systemic approach to manage safety, including the necessary organizational structures, accoimtabilities, policies, and procedures. ... 

One of the more recent organizational changes within pharmaceutical companies is the formal incorporation of CSR activities into the culture and managerial structures and processes of the firm. This formalization involves consolidating disparate activities into both corporate and affiliate management structures that will be objective-driven, transparent to employees, and complied with consistently across the corporations divisions. Operationalization is a deliberate, multi-year plan, and progress is measured according to achievements of specific objectives. 

The formal structures, processes, and systems through which human and organizational resources are managed and optimized to achieve shared goals"... 

Organizational theorists suggest that the structure of an organization encompasses three major aspects differentiation (also known as complexity), formalization, and centralization (Robbins, 2005). Differentiation... 

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