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The process of organizational development does not stop with the legal business structures. All businesses must also determine how they will operate. Will the business be a soloing operation with only one employee, the owner, or will it have management systems and several employees to handle the dozens of roles a business can feature? There are about 60!



For Example:
Will the producer also be the chief marketer, for example, or will some other person be engaged to conduct that chore? Those are questions business operators must answer carefully because they will govern the ability of the business to thrive and grow. One question that often vexes business operators involves human resources, or more broadly, who will do the work and what work they will do.


Some common solutions are:

  • Virtualization, where the business uses the Internet to handle many chores that would normally be done by employees.

  • Full-time staff, where the business employs the traditional method of hiring specific people to perform specific tasks.

  • Part-time or contracted-out staff, where the business hires or subcontracts out to required staff on a project-by-project basis.

  • Outsourcing, where the business hires other businesses to take care of chores that take up too much time, such as accounting.

 

Case Study - Virtualization: Brainhum Corporation
 
     
 
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