Organizing and Staffing

• Nature of Organizing
• Organization Structure
• Basis of Structuring
• Teams
• Staffing Technical Firms
• Staff Training & Development
• Delegation

• Organizing in Business Management (video and texts) http://education-portal.com/academy/topic/organizing.html
• Organizing as a Function of Management (6:29)
• Organizational Design and Structure (7:43)
• Mechanistic & Organic Organizational Business Structures (7:12)
• Work Specialization in Organizations (5:10)
• Authority in Centralized & Decentralized Organizations (4:59)
• Types of Traditional Organizational Designs: Simple, Functional & Divisional Designs (7:46)
• Types of Contemporary Organizational Designs: Matrix, Team & Network Designs (8:41)
• Characteristics of Informal Organizations: The Grapevine & Informal Groups (5:52)
• Chapter Exam http://education-portal.com/academy/topic/exam/organizing.html
• Human Resources (video and texts) http://education-portal.com/academy/topic/human-resources.html
• Human Resource Management: Hiring and Staffing (9:25)
• The Hiring Process: How Human Resource Managers Recruit and Hire Employees (6:06)
• New Employee Orientation: Function & Characteristics (5:31)
• Assessing Training Needs of an Organization (5:50)
• Types of Employee Training Programs (5:53)
• Video: Steve Jobs talks about managing people (2:26) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f60dheI4ARg
  

References:

• Chang, C. M., 2005. Engineering Management: Challenges in the New Millennium, Pearson Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ. [624.068 C45]
• Morse, L. C. and Babcock, D. L., 2010. Managing Engineering and Technology, 5th ed., Chps. 5-6, Prentice-Hall, Pearson Higher Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ. [658.002462 M884 m26]
• Snell, S. and Bohlander, G., 2013. Managing Human Resources, 16th ed., South-Western, Mason, Ohio. [658.3 B676]