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Business; What Controls help keep it functioning?

Management Theory I CBE

Ashley N. Hernandez
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As the days go by, there is one thing that I notice about the people of the Rio Grande

Valley. There is a major lack of non-profit organizations that are assisting with animals and the

prevention of animal cruelty. I feel as if with today’s younger generation, there is more

compassion and want to help out animals in need. I have thought long and hard on what I could

do, as an individual, in order to help with animals and help them go to a family that will properly

take care of them. Unfortunately, I know that forming a non-profit organization will not be an

easy task, but I have always felt the need to help out people and animals that are in need. I

understand that animals are not for everyone but way too often people are just plain heartless

when it comes to animals. Being that I was the only child, my animals were always there to

comfort me. Not everyone may have the same beliefs but I think we need to bring awareness for

all animals. While I would love to save all animals, I must start small and then possibly work m

way up from there. In order for me to do this, I would love to; eventually; found a non-profit

organization. When forming or wanting to form an organization it would be best to use the

SMART acronym for setting your goals. When using the SMART acronym your goals have to be

specific, measureable, attainable, relevant and timely.

There are many items that can affect the outcome of a successful organization. There has

to be some type or structure in order to have a balance within. Wanting to create an organization

that can help get stray animals off the street will, ideally, put my mind at ease. I believe that

animals are capable of healing a person in need. Not only have animals been prove to boost

someone mood, they are also known for predicting emotional/medical changes in a person.

Organization structure can help an organization for the better. According to one of our reading it

states that; in order to achieve organizational goals and objectives, individual work needs to be

coordinated and managed. There are many goals that an organization must focus on, and without
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these goals there can be no future goals. There are just a few different non-profit organizations

focus on saving animals here in the Rio Grande Valley, but I am sure there can be many more.

Perhaps there have been more in the past but they have closed. Having said that, it makes me

wonder what they did wrong in order to not succeed. Was it because there was no order or no

control within the organization? Perhaps it was because the leader had not developed their inner

leadership skills. Knowing that the most recognized form of leadership is Authenticity, then I

must study and learn how to fine tune those skills. Bing that there is a connection between

leadership and ethics, it can be said that a good leader can have a good foundation when it comes

to their ethics. Being that an authentic leader has “high levels of self-awareness and their

behavior is driven by their core personal values.”

When thinking about what you want your managers to achieve, you must take into

consideration using Mintzberg’s three areas for the ten roles (Who are managers). When having

an organization like I want to establish, it would only make sense to have the 10 managerial

roles. When you have all ten of these items, you are able to then provide feedback, process the

information, and then put the information to use. If there was to ever be a problem with your

organization, you can gather all the feedback and then think of solutions. Properly thought out

and implemented controls gives an organization its standards (Types of levels and controls).

Having a set structure within a company is always needed, but you never want to have it too

strict because then you can look as if you wanting to be an authoritarian leader. I would have to

make sure that we would have to do departmentalization; this helps an organization responsible

for completing certain tasks. Another advantage of departmentalization is the development of

their skills. An organization can better those skills in various ways. Even though

departmentalization is good for an organization, it can also have its faults. With
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departmentalization, it can come across as if there is a lack of leadership. Because there would be

no “leader,” that can lead to a lack of communication with all.

With wanting to start my non- profit organization I must have a plan of action. Once my

financials are in place, I would have to start with who I would want to help me lead and what my

goals and vision are. With anything, there will always be good and bad. According to Bucata, it

stated that, “Introduction In order to establish a climate of work performance, modern

organizations have begun to use new methods of management, with an emphasis on the

development of problem solving, communication, conflict, motivation, and employee

involvement in decision-making, while finding the solution of the problems within the group.”

(The Challenges of Organizational Management)

Once everyone understands what their roles will be, we can then begin to save animals.

For the first year, I would expect it to be slow. I am sure that because no one would know about

our new non-profit it would be because we would be new and different for the Rio Grande

Valley.

3 Cats
Dogs

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Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4
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Figure 1. The chart shows how the Non-Profit Animal Shelter did within the first four
years. In year 3 we noticed that there was a dip in daily adoptions for dogs.

Donations

1st Year
2nd Year
3rd Year
4th Year

Figure 2. Figure 2 shows the steady growth of donations made by the residents of the Rio
Grande Valley.

Since there has been more donations though out the first four years, we can conclude that this

organization in a success. In order to understand why we were doing so well, we decided to use

the Feedback loop in order to figure it out. The feedback loop will be beneficial because it will

give us a closer look on what we could be doing better.

In conclusion, controls affect everything in an organization. Without some type of

structure you have no goals and no track to stay on. While there is no such thing as a perfect

organization, I would love to get as close to it as possible

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References

BUCĂȚA, G. (2018). The Challenges of Organizational Management. Revista Academiei

Fortelor Terestre, 23(4), 275–281.

Learning, L. (n.d.). Principles of Management. Retrieved May 09, 2020, from

https://courses.lumenlearning.com/principlesmanagement/chapter/15-3-types-and-levels-of-

control/

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https://courses.lumenlearning.com/principlesmanagement/chapter/1-2-who-are-managers/