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Organization Management
for Business Start-ups
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Introduction to Entrepreneurship
© Oxford Fajar Sdn. Bhd. (008974-T), 2017 4– 3
This chapter introduces students to the basics of
organization management for small business
start-ups, involving the process of organizing,
planning, leading and controlling resources and
activities of an organization to achieve its
objectives.
Synopsis

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Objectives
The objectives of this chapter are:
❑To introduce students to the management and
organization of start up businesses and small
business enterprises.
❑To discuss basic critical questions that all
entrepreneurs must address with regard to their
business mission, vision, objectives and strategies.

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Learning Outcomes
At the end of this chapter, students should be able
to:
❑ Discuss the importance of mission, vision,
objectives, strategies and organization structure
to a business organization.
❑ Discuss issues regarding planning, leading,
organizing and controlling.

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List of Topics
❑ Organization Mission and Vision
❑ Organization Objectives
❑ Organization Structure
❑ Planning
❑ Leading
❑ Controlling
❑ Business Start-up Risk

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Introduction
❑ An organization’s objectives are worked out based
on the organization’s mission, vision and strategies
developed to take advantage of the external
opportunities available and to suit the resources
that can be mobilized by the organization.
❑ Organization management involves the process of
organizing, planning, leading and controlling
resources and activities of an organization to
achieve the set objectives.

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Organization Mission and Vision
❑ The organization mission is an attempt to
provide meaning or answer to “why you do,
what you are doing and where you are headed”.
❑ In October 2015, Mark Zuckerberg, the
Facebook CEO, talked about the importance of
having a “strong sense of mission” to effect
meaningful change in the world.

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(cont.)
❑ The themes of believing in your mission, caring more
deeply than anyone else and always looking ahead is
relevant to anything you might build.
❑ Collins and Porras (1994) list the following as mission
statements or “whys”. These “whys” are big “whys” that
motivate entrepreneurs and those who work for them and
with them.
(a) To preserve and improve human life (Merck)
(b) To make people happy (Walt Disney)
(c) To make technical contributions for the advancement
and welfare of humanity (HP)

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❑ The next questions that an entrepreneur must
ask are:
(a) “What to do?”
(b) “How to do?”
(c) “When to do?”
(d) “Where to do?”
The answer to these questions will explain the
basic strategies of a particular company.
(cont.)

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“What” of Strategy
❑ This refers to the vision or change agenda that the
entrepreneur wants to achieve within a time frame.
❑ Organizations normally express their vision statement in
a crisp and precise form and it acts as a shared
aspiration that provides long-term directions and targets
of the organization.
❑ Vision statements always refer to the aspired
performance or quality goal in providing products or
services within a targeted geographical area of
operation and may include the long-term company’s
aspirations.

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“What” of Strategy (cont.)
❑ Visions must clearly indicate the gap—preferably a
quantifiable value gap—between what the firm is
today and where it expects to be, say in three years
from now.
❑ Based on the example earlier, Facebook started with
a vision of having 100 million users. Upon achieving
this, the challenge was raised to 1 billion users. The
“how” of strategy will be the integrated choices
translated into programmes and projects that the
organization implements to close the value gap.

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❑ The company’s business strategies refer to the
methods by which the organization choose to achieve
its stated objectives. This may include the choice of
business sector, products, customers, capabilities,
operational areas, technologies, methods of
execution or working, investments, borrowings, etc.
❑ For small businesses, this will include the choice of
business an entrepreneur would like for a new
venture.

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An entrepreneur may have to do a basic strengths,
weaknesses, opportunities, threats (SWOT) analysis to
analyze his strengths and weaknesses (internal), and
opportunities and threats, (external) to identify suitable
business opportunities and strategies. Figure 4.3
illustrates SWOT analysis.

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Matching internal strengths with external opportunities

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Organization Objectives
❑ The organization objectives refer to the short-
term goals of the organization (for example, one
to three years), which will normally include
sales targets, profit targets, geographical area
of operation, etc. Ideally, objectives should have
the following characteristics (SMART):
(a) Specific (b) Measurable
(c) Achievable (d) Realistic
(e) Time frame (schedule implementation)

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Organization Structure
❑ The organization will have to undertake certain
specific tasks and these tasks can be divided into
smaller tasks which can be assigned to specific
personnel. This division of labour can be represented
in the form of an organization structure.
❑ Tasks on the organization chart can be divided based
on functionality, such as marketing, administration,
operations and finance; or geographically, such as
zone A, zone B and zone C; or on products sales
responsibility, such as product A, product B and
product C.

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Organization Structure (cont.)
When students organize groups to undertake group
entrepreneurial projects, they will have to identify key
tasks that must be done and divide the tasks among
group members. Figure 4.5 is an example of an
organization chart.

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Planning
❑ An entrepreneur will have to make a long-term strategic
plan, especially in choosing which business sector is
suitable and offers the best opportunity for him. It is
recommended for him to use the Business Model
Canvas to work out his business strategies as explained
in Chapter 11.
❑ For a business start-up, an entrepreneur may need to
do a simple project planning for main activities in the
form of a Gantt chart. The Gantt chart will outline for
each activity the start-up date, duration and its
completion date.

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Leading
❑ Whenever there is a group of people working
together, especially in an organization, they will need
a leader to lead, motivate, direct, guide, control and
correct them so that the team will be motivated,
coordinated and can work effectively and
harmoniously together as a team to achieve group
objectives.
❑ The leader will be responsible and accountable for
the performance of the whole team and he may have
to delegate some of these tasks to his subordinates.

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Controlling
❑ Controlling refers to the act of controlling and guiding
the enterprise’s work, executing and monitoring work
progress involving work schedules, resources,
manpower, machines and space, etc. and where
required activities may have to be speeded up,
corrected or even stopped.
❑ Controlling can be improved if an enterprise develops
controlling documentations including outlining its
mission, vision, objectives, strategies, work schedules,
methodologies, manual and operating procedures,
quality procedures, auditing procedures, etc.

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Summary
❑ An entrepreneur must work out a viable business
plan for his start-up business and then set up
effective organization to take care of all the important
tasks that need to be done in order to achieve
organization objectives.

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