What Are the Benefits of Having an Organizational Chart in Your Startup? By Wendy on April 9, 2013 (2 of 6) Forbes recently published an article titled Why Defining a Corporate Structure for Startups Matters and it gives some insights on how to create your own organizational structure. The main point is summarized below: 1. Record all the roles for your company. The best way to do it is to create a job description for your current and prospective positions. In your job description, clearly outline what the duties and responsibilities of the job-holder are and the minimum requirements for the position. Now, as a start-up, you will find that many of your employees may have more than one hat since everyone is helping out in the different areas of the business. Do not assign names to the positions as you do not want to hinder your current employees into a specific role for the moment. The purpose of creating the various job descriptions is to take a proactive approach i.e. while you are building what your structure looks like, it forces you to think ahead of what specific positions you will eventually need in the near future. 2. Map out how work is done, the processes required for the business to perform efficiently, and how information is shared throughout your company. This guideline will allow you to determine your main teams and to assign the different positions into each unit. For example, you may want a design, marketing, customer service, and manufacturing team. One important part of this step is to ensure that your organizational structure facilitates communication through the organization. For example, you will absolutely design your sales team to be in direct communication with your development team. When your company starts growing in size, some of your employees may be in cross-functional teams reporting to different managers. An organizational structure will allow you to clearly identify the reporting relationships. ...continue...
Posted on: Sat, 17 Aug 2013 15:01:06 +0000
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