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A Social Unit of People That Is Structured and Managed To Meet A Need or To Pursue Collective Goals
A Social Unit of People That Is Structured and Managed To Meet A Need or To Pursue Collective Goals
Organization is a social unit of people that is structured and managed to meet a need or
to pursue collective goals. All organizations have a management structure that
determines relationships between the different activities and the members, and
subdivides and assigns roles, responsibilities, and authority to carry out different tasks.
Organizations are open systems--they affect and are affected by their environment.
Organization also play a role into different societal subsytems like the private enterprise
(belongs to economy), political parties, the science of research and media organization,
and son on. Sometimes one sector of an organization obeys the operating code of one
subsystem whereas the other sector obeys the code of another subsystem. A very
obvious example is media organizations, where the editorial boards act on the operation
mode “publicity” whereas the publishing houses refer to the economic code. The same
holds true for universities, whose research departments are oriented towards truth and
understanding, whereas the activity of teaching relates to the system of education.