Organizational Systems for Continuous Improvement

Questions: 1.Discuss How Organisational Systems and Procedures can Support Effective Continuous Improvement.2.Discuss How Continuous Improvement Systems and Processes relate to Other Business systems and Requirements including knowledge management, quality, performance management and sustainability.3.Think about a job that you had in the past or that you currently have. How would you measure productivity in that job?4.Reflect on a Past work Experience and Describe an Instance where Continuous Improvement was applied Answers: 1.Organizational Systems and Procedures can support effective continuous Improvement In business organizations, different types of organizational systems and procedures are used for organizing information. The knowledge based organizational systems are used to organize materials that are used for the purpose of retrieval and for managing collection. Further in this report, we will discuss how organizational systems and procedures supports effective continuous improvement. 2.Organizational Systems support continuous improvement at workplace There are wide variety of organization systems available that helpful to support continuous improvement at workplace. That organizational systems and procedures are discussed as below: Hierarchical System This organizational system is helpful in large business organizations where employees and owners have too much work to do. By using this organizational system, workers work under guidance of supervisor and owner handles other business activities. Under this systems, different skilled employees are hired by management to handle different business tasks and every team is supervised by supervisor. This is an effective way to improve workplaces (Ashe-Edmunds, 2017). Divisional Systems A business organization that has multiple products or businesses that implement divisional organizational systems. In this way, each division might operate by using its own marketing and production functions and each division will be responsible for its own work. This is an effective way to improve workplaces environment. By Department Besides above discussed organizational systems, an organizational procedure can also be created that should be based on different functions within a company. These functions will include marketing, office administration, finance and human resources etc. Examples of how organizational systems can be applied for continuous improvement at workplace. As we have discussed above, different organizational systems can be applied for continuous improvement at workplace. Now, in this segment of report we will emphasize on examples of each organizational system to understand that how it can be applied at workplaces (Thinkperform.com.au, 2017). In case of hierarchical Systems, if an employee has charge of marketing, then that employee will also responsible for creating and managing budget of department and also overseeing staff members such as webmasters and graphic designers (Schron.com, 2017). In case of divisional systems, an organization handles different businesses. Adidas Company provides different sportswear for every sport such as cricket, hockey etc. Relation of Continuous Improvement Systems and Processes to business systems and requirements The above discussed organizational systems are not only helpful for continuous improvement systems but also helpful to manage knowledge management, quality, performance management and sustainability in a way that these systems provide a strategic way to manage all business tasks and operations appropriately by dividing them into employees according to their knowledge and skills under an effective leadership. By doing this, knowledge and performance of employees can be judged and quality and sustainability of their work can be estimated easily (Referenceforbusiness.com, 2017). 3.How I measure productivity of my Job? Currently, I am working as a Web Programmer in a company and I am satisfied with this job. It is a productive job because due to this job, I am not only earning good amount but also getting so much knowledge in my field. We work on a project in team and every team member is responsible for his/her task. We have a good team leader who guides to achieve project goals successfully and within time. Due to usage of continuous improving system at our workplace, every employee is handling his responsibility properly and providing desired results. It improves productivity of work (Carr, 2017). 4.Past Work Experience where Continuous Improvement was applied? At my previous workplace, flat organizational system were used for continuous improvement, but it was a loose organizational structure and here responsibility of most areas was handled by owner or different employees. Under this structure, there was lack of supervisor and manager who could guide employees to work effectively. Therefore, it was not a good way for continuous improvement at workplaces. Therefore, organization was shifted to another organizational system i.e. hierarchical system for better performance of employees and for improving workplaces environment. This was a major change that have done at my previous organization and various positive changes are encountered (Managementhelp.org, 2017). References Ashe-Edmunds, S. Ashe-Edmunds, S. (2017). What Are Organizational Systems? | eHow. eHow. Retrieved 10 March 2017, from https://www.ehow.com/info_8403547_organizational-systems.html BusinessDictionary.com. (2017). Developing Organizational Systems for Better Efficiency. 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