Organization Theory And Design

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Organization Theory and Design

What is an "Organization”?
Basically, an organization is a group of people intentionally organized to accomplish an overall, common goal or set of goals. Business organizations can range in size from two people to tens of thousands.

Members of the organization often have some image in their minds about how the organization should be working, how it should appear when things are going well.

An organization operates according to an overall purpose, or mission.


Values

All organizations operate according to overall values, or priorities in the nature of how they carry out their activities. These values are the personality, or culture, of the organization.
Strategic Goals

Organizations members often work to achieve several overall accomplishments, or goals, as they work toward their mission.
Strategies

Organizations usually follow several overall general approaches to reach their goals.

Organization as a System

It helps to think of organizations is systems. Simply put, a system is an organized collection of parts that are highly integrated in order to accomplish an overall goal. The system has various inputs which are processed to produce certain outputs that together, accomplish the overall goal desired by the organization.

There is ongoing feedback among these various parts to ensure they remain aligned to accomplish the overall goal of the organization. There are several classes of systems, ranging from very simple frameworks all the way to social systems, which are the most complex. Organizations are, of course, social systems.
Systems have inputs, processes, outputs and outcomes. To explain, inputs to the system include resources such as raw materials, money, technologies and people. These inputs go through a process where they're aligned, moved along and carefully coordinated, ultimately to achieve the goals set for the system. Outputs are tangible results produced b...