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how an organization running their business, based on what kinds of elements?

1. A business plan that spells out who the company is, what they do, how they are going to do it and how they are going to make money doing it

2. A leadership chart that outlines key roles and duties

3. A mission statement that these leaders sign off on as being the guidance towards reaching company goals

4. A realization that a company is part of a community both locally, nationally and globally. As such, they have a responsibility to the people and environment in which they exist.
They must act honorably at all times and not pose risk to health or welfare of the community.

5. Realize that companies are not formed to be charities. They are there to make money, otherwise, why do it?. As such, there will be detractors, disgruntled employees etc.. who will attempt to dissuade others from seeing the companies goals. A policy must be in place to deal with these and all other employee issues and it must be enforced without prejudice against all violators.

Hope this helps. It’s not perfect but neither is the world we live in.

True or False?

Please explain

It largely depends where in the Budget Cycle you are and if your Project is under or over budget ..

Essentially, no-one wants to share until the last moment when budgets are about to be reviewed .. then if you are running under budget, you try to spend every penny you can before ‘Der Management’ find out and cut next years budget ..

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Music = What I Like About You by the Romantics

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Matrix organization has 2boss drawbacks and power problems, blurred lines of responsibility, etc.

Design a revised organization structure that can potentially overcome the difficulties.

John, your question, and your other one, has many other deeper issues about the organization that needs to be disclosed before you can arrive at a simple answer like your are expecting. These deeper issues are things like the organization’s business, it’s operating strategies, mission statements, etc.

If I were you, I’d research first why the organization is a matrix in the first place, what are the driving factors that decided matrix. strengths and weaknesses – do a SWOT , (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats), analysis.

I’d suggest you research on line management sites on what the different organization structures are to see which would be a better fit for your organization. But you must be subjective in your selection, i.e. argue your own conclusions. not easy my friend, but good luck.

Your organization should have the best structure for achieving its goals. this structure shows the internal divisions of organization, and the relationships between them….

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I can’t draw a chart here but the organizational structure is:

Lab head
Senior researchers/postdoctoral fellows
Junior researchers/postdoctoral fellows
PhD students
Honours students
Research Assistants
Lab Managers
Lab Technicians

The lab head is in charge of the lab. Under him there will be a number of post doctoral research fellows. They often have their own grants or will be a co-investigator on the lab head’s grants and will independently be working on projects they have designed, often in conjunction with the lab head.

Working with the post docs on parts of their projects will be PhD students. PhD students are often quite independant and will have designed their own experiments but will be conducting them based on an overall project put together by the more senior members of the lab. PhD students will generally answer to the lab head.

Honours students are the least independent of the scientists and are the least experienced of the researchers. This is often their first time working in a research lab and they will often work independently but the particular experiments and overall project will have been designed by more senior researchers. Honours students answer to their supervisor which will generally be the lab head or a post doc.

Research assistants will report to either the post docs or the lab head and assist with the performance of experiments. The precise role depends on what needs to be done and the amount of independence they have also depends on the project they are assisting with and the personality of their supervisors.

Lab managers take care of all the day to day running issues of the lab like scheduling bookings, complying with OHS workplace legislation, organising the lab. Basically they ensure that the researchers have everything they need to perform their research and ensure that the lab runs smoothly. The lab manager generally answers to the lab head.

Lab technicians perform only very specific tasks and often just take care of that particular task or group of tasks. The task is often an ongoing one which needs someone to constantly perform it. eg preparation of material or reagents used by the lab, maintenance and care of animal colonies etc. They will generally answer to the lab manager.

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analyse the points?

Of course it does – But you should do your own homework.

Businesses that grow organically become dependent on people. As the get bigger, this becomes a problem, producing bottlenecks, turf wars and ultimately unhappy customers who go elsewhere to meet their needs.

This brief video discusses why systems are crucial and when done correctly, create a performance structure as important as the organizational structure is to a business or organization.

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