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Organization (of a company) is a very complex subject and difficult and therefor often changing process in the real companies. May be you was wondering why the organisation of your company changes so often. It is because organisation is something dynamic, and this property grounds on two important things: There is no feasible optimum structure of an organization to determine. Second, the environment of organization changes every day.

There is no Optimum

Of cause there could be no optimum, because you never have the complete information about the environment. Even if we would have all information about the environment, this will get soon to old and not valid. Furthermore the complexity of real world environments can’t be modeled even in 100 or 1000 years. So the model has to be relative abstract to be handle and calculable.

Dynamic

I already wrote about dynamic of economy which is the exterior environment of an organization. This dynamic of cause affects the organisation in it self. Then the organization should deal with changing environments, therefore it has to be updated often. Otherwise the organisation can be designed as dynamic and flexible, to minimise the reorganization processes by making them natural.

Dynamic Awareness

How to make an organisation aware of changing environments and markets, this is the question that matters more than ever. But this is also very difficult questions, and it goes through many aspects of a company. When i think about dynamic aware organisation, the following aspect appear as very important to me: organisation as a structure, staff and IT.

1. Hierarchies should be flat and maybe not really tied bound.
2. Companies should understand, that modern staff is not a resource in Adam Smith sense. Modern employee is hard to motivate, but hey should be aware of changes.
3. The IT of companies has also be aware of changes and reorganization. By changes i mean not only some stuff or department changes, but even the whole business process or parts of it.

This three Aspect stood at beginning of considerations of dynamic aware organization.I’ll will cover that aspects more deeply in the future posts. Feel free to comment.

There is a ton of theoretical articles about employee motivation. So if someone talks to you about motivation possibly you first think of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and this is OK. I just want to present one interesting and very personal point of motivation - your chef.

Surprised? Let me explain why your boss is a very important part of your personal motivation and how one good supervisor should look like to my eyes.

At first, I think every direct supervisor is some kind of person you subliminal see as someone who is professionally better than you. At least at the beginning every supervisor is. If this fealing of professional advantage and respect to boss holds on you stay motivated employee.

How bosses looses respect and demotivate

Many supervisors shows sometimes that they did not understand what their team do. Some of them goes further they show even that they are not good in doing their own things. In worst case, such boss is so underdeveloped in his methodologies, that with his doing or not doing he slows down or relatives the work of his team. Such boss looses respect in hours and is frustrating for all.
If such situation occurs, no further achievement can be awaited from the stuff. All office parties, and Christmas presents are senseless. They can’t motivate. Even such things like further education can not motivate for more achievements, employee would see it as a chance to live that office or department.

Top 6 properties of motivating boss

So the message is, everyone needs professional boss. I just notice some of them in following:

• Good supervisor should never forget what he has assured to his employee, because employee does not forget it too
• Good supervisor has also not to forget important work relevant things, like planed holidays of his employees, or meetings with them - never.
• Good supervisor has to organise things in his department well. He should organise his own tasks first and task of his team, that employee has not to worry about things that are not in his direct or even indirect duties. Being engaged in things which are were not intended at the moment of application for employment is very frustrating. Doing things for other is frustrating even for own boss
  • Every boss is interested that new employees begin with their work as soon as possible . The are companies, in that processes of employment and introduction to work environment are not clearly defined. This is an example field, where the boss can gain much respect at least in the eyes of new employees.
  • Good boss defines processes in his department by himself and not just follows some randomly originated workflows.
• Good motivating chef has to be better than you. I mean he has to be better by doing something job related. In good situation your boss is good in organisation, motivation, and knows at least something what you do at work :). Your lucky when your can ask your boss even professional or technical question. That must be a dream boss in that case.
• Motivating chef has always more information from above and from bottom, he is open-minded and communicative person. He can organize his information input and what is much important, he is internally interested to be involved in things that are happened around him.
• Finely only motivated person, can motivate others.