Product oriented organization for architectural design offices

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Tarih
2023-02-02
Yazarlar
Çetin, Nazmiye
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Yayınevi
Graduate School
Özet
The construction sector has an important position all over the world, and many researches have been made on site management, organization at the construction site, management of construction processes, efficiency etc. The most important reason why the implementation process enables these researches is that all data are concrete. On the other hand, it has been seen as a result of personal experiences and literature reviews that there is not enough research on pre-construction projecting, organization of architectural design offices, efficiency, and management of design processes. In architectural design offices, on the other hand, in the design and projecting processes, the design is not concrete, the variability is high, there are many stages shaped according to the demands. All of these hinder the carrying out of the specified researches in architectural design offices. However, in design projects, which are the product of architectural design offices, research should be done and different methods should be applied in order to produce an efficient product, to complete the project in the targeted time and budget, to use the workforce correctly, and to prevent the participants in the office from being adversely affected by inefficient work. By starting the studies on this field, first of all, literature reviews were made. When the literature review was conducted for design offices and their product-oriented works, two concepts were mostly encountered. These concepts are Project-Oriented Organization and Architectural Management. We live in a project society, where projects are everywhere in our professional and personal lives which is this shows how important Project-Oriented Organizations, the first of these concepts. On the other hand, because of the increasing complexity of architectural design and the increasing number of design partners participating in interdisciplinary projects, (architectural) design management has emerged as a discipline and a subject of study. The term Architectural Management (AM) was coined to motivate architects to recognize and handle the financial part of their profession. Two concepts were investigated and missing points were identified. In the concept of Project-Oriented Organizations, project management has been emphasized and organizational management has been put into the background. In the concept of Architectural Management (AM), although project management and office and practice management are considered together, there are very few applications, especially in practice. On the other hand, organizational structures were studied in both concepts. Because of that the existing organizational structure types for all organizations have been reviewed in the literature by further deepening the study. The research continues with Theories of Organizational Structure, Characteristics of Organizational Structure, Organization As A System, Organizational Design Models and Organizational Design Parameters, Elements of Organization, and the most specific point is "What Is An Organization? which are related to organizational structure types, While investigating what organization is, the concept of being organized (organizing) has also emerged. In researches, even if the organizational structure is established correctly, it has been seen that the organizational structure does not work efficiently unless the organization is properly organized. As a result of all researches, the type of organizational structure that is thought to be most suitable for Architectural Design Offices has been selected. Selected structure type: Organizations Structure with 7 Division (with Functional Structure Subcategories). The reason for choosing this organizational structure type is that it is more comprehensive compared to other structure types. In addition, there is a unit corresponding to the units of all other organizational structure types studied in this thesis. As a result of this research and studies, the hypothesis took its final form: The Suitable Organization Structure Type for Product-Oriented Organization in Architectural Design Offices is Organizations Structure with 7 Division (with Functional Structure Subcategories). Each division in this organizational structure, which has 7 ddivisions, performs the necessary functions to produce a product or service specific to that division. Each division has 3 departments. It consists of 21 departments in total. These divisions and departments are adapted to the divisions and departments names corresponding to the architectural design office. These divisions are as follows: Executive, Communication and Human Resources, Marketing, Finance and Accounting, Project Management, Project Control and Public Relations Divisions. Afterwards, a questionnaire containing questions belonging to each department was conducted for the architects working in architectural design offices to evaluate the proposed organizational structure. In these surveys, they were asked about their own assessments of the importance of each division, the extent to which each division was implemented in their own offices, and the barriers to non-implementation. When the answers given were examined and analyzed, it was deduced that each division was important and effective, and that they wanted these divisions in their architectural design offices.
Açıklama
Thesis (M.Sc.) -- İstanbul Technical University, Graduate School, 2023
Anahtar kelimeler
architectural offices, mimarlık büroları, project organization, proje organizasyonu, production organization, ürün organizasyonu
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