Planning Your Organization 1. 2. 3. 4. Write down the mission or purpose of the organization in a few sentences. What are the specific tasks to be completed to accomplish the mission? Based on the specifics in number 2, develop an organization chart. Each position in the chart will perform a specific task or is responsible for a certain outcome. You are into your third year of operation, and your business has been very successful. You want to add a second location a few miles away. What issues will you face running the business at two location? Draw an organization chart that includes the two business locations. 5. After five years, the business has five locations in two cities. How do you keep in touch with it all? What issues of control and coordination have arisen? Draw and up-to-date organization chart and explain your rationale for it. 6. Twenty years later you have 75 business locations in 5 provinces. What are the issues and problems that must be dealt with through organization structure? Draw an organization chart for this organization showing how information will flow within the organization. LEARNING ACTIVITY 2 To better understand the importance of organizational structure in your life, do the followir assignments. • • • Select one of the following organizations to design: A copy and printing shop A travel agency A sport rental (such as snowmobiles) in a resort area A bakery Background Organization is a way of gaining some power against and unreliable environ provides the organization with inputs, which include raw materials, human service or product to produce that involves technology. The output goes t must be nurtured. The complexities of the environment and the technol complexity of the organization. Planning Your Organization or purpose of the organization in a few the