Engineering Organisations

Business in Engineering Organisations

Business in Engineering Organisations

Introduction

In an Engineering organisation, business planning is an essential part, without planning an organisation can not achieve their goals. Business planning needs to be made according to the organisations engineering expertise, but there are few considerations that should be carried out in all engineering disciplines such as; Managing staff, Resource allocation, Potential local as well as national influences that may affect the operation of an engineering organisation (Waldron, 1994).DiscussionBusiness Planning

The backbone of an organisations success is based on its business planning. While carrying out the planning few considerations are to be taken like an organisation should have a sound managerial and professional human resource. An organisation should behave professionally knowing what products or services they provide to capture their target customer. The organisation should be well aware of its competitors and competitor's weakness to use them in its advantages, yet in legal ways. The resources should be allocated efficiently to bring out most from them (Marshall, 1992).

The organisation can manage and secure their resources through strategic planning that involves few points. Identifying the financial issues and upgrading the policies if required, examining how the organisation is generating and its financial resources, Evaluating costs on expenditure. Arranging strategic development programmes to obtain resources for an organisation. Also developing resources to accomplish tasks and implement ideas (Waldron, 1994a).

Recruitment is a process to find out the employee with the appropriate education, experience, communication and other skills. The next task involves the process of interviewing and staff selection. After selection, the organisation sets up the staff orientation program where the new employees are introduced to their colleagues, their nature of job in depth, organisations vision, mission & objectives in depth (Waldron, 1994b). Manage staff according to their specific units. The Individual's role should be clear. This involves direction, coordination, reporting and budgeting by management planning process. This includes establishing goals and objectives of an individual. Identifying policies related to the specific unit and appreciating staff for achieving goals etc (Waldron. M. W, 1994).

The directions should be given to staff to lead them and creating a working environment where employees can come up with their best work. (McNeil & Clemmer, 1988). The coordination is important to relate the various job roles and tasks, junior and senior staff of the same unit and other units. Reporting is related to the coordinating, where the employees are responsible to inform their supervisors about their tasks or work. It is essential to establish a competitive environment in an organisation. It is the employee's evaluation function. The management responsibilities also include financial planning, which requires information about revenue and expenses (Gulick & Urwick, 1959).

The financial planning is subjected to achieve goals of Evaluating performance, making future financial strategies, assessing organisations current and future financial requirements, making priorities and deploying recourses. An organisation and its suppliers are dependent on each other for their mutual benefits. To achieve the mutual goals Establish a relationship that is good in short and long term with ...