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Abstract- Organisational structure is the bureaucratic set-up After this manager decides the bases by which to group
of an institution by which its staff, facilities and other resources are the individual jobs .This decision is much like any other
organised in such a manner as to be most effective in classification decision and it can result in groups containing
accomplishing the purpose for which the organisation is jobs that are relatively homogeneous (alike).
established. A pharmaceutical company as well as its close Then manager decides the appropriate size of group to each
relatives, proprietary drugs and toiletries companies are complex
organisations. Under its roof a team of scientists, technicians and
superior. As we have already noted that this decision
other specialists come together for representing virtually all the involves determining whether spans of control are relatively
sciences, along with the contribution made by the management narrow or wide.
executives, lawyers, accountants, engineers, system analysts and In the last manager distributes authority among the
may other whose abilities and talents maintains the viability of this jobs. Authority is the right to make decision without
unique business enterprise. Current scenario demands for a approval by higher manager. All jobs contain some degree
different organizational structure for a large scale pharmaceutical of the right to make decisions within prescribe limit.
company and for a small scale pharmaceutical company. Earlier What is needed is an integrated plan for each key
we are having a common structure in which there used to be only customer in the context of the company’s portfolio, rather
one administrator and one or two departmental heads. But now a
than the traditional plan for each sales force team. The
days when the pharmaceutical companies are becoming gigantic a
need for new structure arises. In the new structure a specialist is integrated plan should identify the company’s objectives for
needed for every individual job because every job today demands the customer, their needs, how to address them and who will
for specialisation. The new organisational structure gives us the be responsible for doing so this will lead the company to
benefits of specialisation. This structure can be followed by the identify what type of sales people or teams it needs, what
companies manufacturing wide variety of products as well as the skills they should have, what roles they should play, what
company manufacturing single product but distributing widely. tools they require, and what system will hold it all together
Pharmaceutical marketing departments are concerned with the and provide support. Implementing this strategy requires
process by which medicinal products are made available to new processes and technologies for information sharing,
ultimate consumer from their point of origin. Its manager works
with the objective of profit through customer satisfaction.
which in turn requires a change in organizational structure
and the breaking down of information silos within the
Keywords- Bureaucracy, Job Profile, Organizational Silos, organization.
Portfolio.
II. THE PROBLEM
I. INTRODUCTION Change in the pharmaceutical market requires company
to change their approach and business model. In the part,
A N organizational structure defines how job tasks are
formally divided in to groups and coordinated. The
new rules of operating in today’s global business
medical sales forces have mostly called on doctors and other
prescribes to sell their product. This approach is focused on
transactions and on increasing share of voice. Turnover
environment make structure and design even more critical.
among sales representatives is often high, making it difficult
There are five key elements a manager needs to address
to build relationship with the customer. Several
when he designs organization’s structure. These are: work
representatives from the same company might be calling on
specialization, departmentalization, span of control,
the same customer to promote different or the same product,
centralization and decentralization.
presenting further challenges of coordination.
Work can be performed more efficiently if employees
For the purpose of our study we had chosen a sample of
are allowed to specialize. The essence of work
50 pharmaceutical companies from top 500 pharmaceutical
specialization is that, rather than an entire job being done by
companies on convenience basis. In our study, we found
one individual, it is broken down into a number of parts:
that each company is following a different structure (may be
In this work, manager first decides how to divide the
functional or divisional) according to size of marketing
overall task into successively smaller jobs. Manager divides
operations and span of control. As our sampling units were
the total activities of the task into smaller set of related
large pharmaceutical companies, we observed a problem
activities .The effect of this decision is to define job in terms
that is faced by every HR manager of these companies and
of specialization and responsibility. Although job having
that is of employee turnover.
many Criteria’s the most important one is their degree of
As we went in depth of this problem, we found a reason
specialization.
of this problem. Previously pharmaceutical companies were
S. Chand is with the Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kurukshetra
used to appoint diploma holders, graduates and master
University, Kurukshetra (corresponding author to provide phone: degree holders in Pharmaceutical Sciences for the job of
098966534650; e-mail: khambra_4u@yahoo.co.in). Medical Representatives because the job and work demands
G. Gupta is with Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kurukshetra for specialization. But the employees were paid less as
University, Kurukshetra, (e-mail: Girish_pharmacist92@rediffmail.com).
B. Gera is with the University School of Management, Kurukshetra
compared to their degree demanded for and as compared to
University, Kurukshetra. (e-mail: Bhawnagera28@gmail.com). other professionals having the equivalent qualifications but
working in other industries (except pharma industry).
So a trend came of quitting the job because of work and today.
salary dissatisfaction. As a result, the companies facing this
problem started appointing non-professionals (graduates,
master degree holders in any stream) for this job and this
situation gave birth to the problem of Pharma Marketing Manager
unemployment on the part of the country. With the passage East Zone Sales Manager
of time, today a new problem has arisen that the new sales
personnel were unable to satisfy the queries of doctors. This Medical Representatives
Finance Manager
Purchasing Manager
Connecting Marketing
Research & Development organization and the process (How
customer (What the
Manager customer demands the company
Production Manager for?) will interact to
Marketing Manager
company. This new structure will be like this:
C. Now in reader’s mind some questions will arise like:
Human Resource Manager
Why two separate divisions for marketing of products
to Doctors and marketing to Retailers/Wholesalers?
And if these exist who will be recruited to these two jobs?
B. Following to this, we are showing a common Whether the persons with same educational background will
functional-geographical structure of marketing division, do both the jobs or the persons with different backgrounds
which is followed by any big pharmaceutical company will be needed?
V. CONCLUSION
An organizational structure, like any plan, must
reflect its environment. Just as the premises of a plan may
be economic, political, social or ethical, so may be those of
an organizational structure. It must be designed to work and
to help people gain objectives efficiently in a changing
future. In this sense, a workable organizational structure can
never be static. There is no single organizational structure
that works best in all kinds of situations. An effective
organizational structure depends upon the situation. The
present situation demands for the modification in the old
structure that we have discussed.
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