Critically assess the degree to which contingency approaches can provide guidance in designing effective organisations.
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Managing People ~ Compulsory Tudor Assessed Assignment TAA Code : 301MPE Critically assess the degree to which contingency approaches can provide guidance in designing effective organisations. Every part of our lives is affected by organisations - we work in them, shop in them, have children in them. Therefore organisations are groups of social entities, to which all groups need some sort of co-operation in order to exist and function. Organisations are characterised by formalised goals, and some sort of deliberate structural system. Thus an organisation can be seen as one or more groups of people working together to achieve a common goal or set of goals. In order to continue to refine and improve organisational activity within the business context, management must develop an explanation of, how organisations form their structure, function in respect to both their internal and external environment, and survive by the accomplishment of their goals. From such analysis management...


