Understanding Organization by expert | Expert Understanding - It is no longer possible to study modern industrial society (or post modern, post-industrial society) without the study of organizations. Virtually everything we do as members of a society or community, and vast amounts of what we do as individuals, occurs within organized settings. Even our personal lives and intimate relations are structured by organizational constraints. Colleges and universities, for example, draw together students who are far more similar to each other than they are to the rest of the population. Of course there are age similarities, but also geographic factors, economics issues, and personality issues shaped by the less tangible aspects of the reputations of the schools. Yet consider how to the practice of bringing together large pendent lives for several years of close living defines our worlds: your expanding social and political awareness is shaped in large measure by conversations and experiences in college; your career is shaped by what you study and with whom, including your friendships and other social network that will stay with you; and a great many marriages begin as college relationships.
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Who knew that when you decided on the school that allowed you to keep a car instead of the one that didn't, or when your second choice school offered you better financial aid than your first-choice school had, such significant pathways to your future were opening or closing? Of course, this organizational alignment of your social future did not just begin here. Parents compete to get their kids in the "right" pre-schools to help track them to the best colleges (or, at least, i have read that in "lifestyle" articles in news magazines). Similar factors are at work when communities invest in junior league sports or music programs, or raise property taxes to improve science education in the high school, so you may well have been on this path from organization to organization - school to team university to work place - for a lot longer than you realize.
Does all of that matter? wherever you go, you meet some people and not others, or learn one skill instead of a different one. Does the organizational setting make such a difference? The answer, of course, is yes, though it will take a few chapters to show you why. But, first, we need a little vocabulary and a brief bit of history.
For the moment, let's say that an organization is a group with some kind of name, purpose, and a defined membership. For any given organization, you are either part of it or you aren't, and you know which. This is in contrast to other kinds of groups, such as groups like that it's possible for some people to consider themselves members, or to be considered as members by most participants and yet have other participants disagree. An organization, therefore, has a clear boundary between its inside and its outside.
An organization can be more or less formally organized. A formal organization tends to have roles or jobs or ranks within it, and guidelines, rules or by- laws defining how things to get done within it. A less formal or informal organization might not specify that much detail and the there are semi-formal organizations that lie in between. I once belonged to a food co-op, for example, which was technically a formal organization but so loosely run that very few people had much idea what their exact responsibilities were supposed to be. Most of us just showed up around the time we were expected and asked someone what needed to be done
Does all of that matter? wherever you go, you meet some people and not others, or learn one skill instead of a different one. Does the organizational setting make such a difference? The answer, of course, is yes, though it will take a few chapters to show you why. But, first, we need a little vocabulary and a brief bit of history.
For the moment, let's say that an organization is a group with some kind of name, purpose, and a defined membership. For any given organization, you are either part of it or you aren't, and you know which. This is in contrast to other kinds of groups, such as groups like that it's possible for some people to consider themselves members, or to be considered as members by most participants and yet have other participants disagree. An organization, therefore, has a clear boundary between its inside and its outside.
An organization can be more or less formally organized. A formal organization tends to have roles or jobs or ranks within it, and guidelines, rules or by- laws defining how things to get done within it. A less formal or informal organization might not specify that much detail and the there are semi-formal organizations that lie in between. I once belonged to a food co-op, for example, which was technically a formal organization but so loosely run that very few people had much idea what their exact responsibilities were supposed to be. Most of us just showed up around the time we were expected and asked someone what needed to be done
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