Name: Pulido, Jhona Mae V. Prof.

Rosalie
M. Catu
Section: PA-32 Assignment
2

“Human Behavior Organization in Public Service”

1. How would you differentiate between public and private organizations?

Public Organizations are the institutions that are owned and controlled by the government which
provides public services, and they provide goods and services for the benefit of the community, and
they are run by the government and operate with money raised from taxes. Examples of Public
Organizations are education, public transportation, law enforcement,

Private Organizations is any partnership, corporation, person, or agency that is not operated by a
profit or a public body. It includes all businesses that are for-profit that are not government owned or
operated. Examples of Private Organizations are Sole Proprietors: designers, developers, plumbers,
repairmen. Partnerships: dentistry, legal, accounting, tax. Small and Medium-sized Businesses: retail,
hospitality, food, leisure, legal services.

2. What exactly are the public, private, and non-profit sectors?

Public, Private, and Non-profit sectors are all different sectors in the economy of a country that are
owned and managed by different administrators. Public sector is controlled by the government to
provide goods and services to the public without competition to different government agencies
because its purpose is to sustain the needs of the society while Private Sector is managed by
individuals and private institutions and corporations by providing needs of the people for the purpose
of profit because private sector are profit-oriented sector in the economy while Non-profit sectors are
the organizations that are managed by voluntary trustees to provide goods and services to the country
and it is a voluntary group or institution with a social mission, which operates independently from the
government. NGOs or similar organizations exist in all parts of the world.

3. What does organizational structure entail, and why is it significant?

An organizational structure is a hierarchical outline of a company’s roles, teams, and employees.

Organizational structures are significant because it describes what employees do, whom they report
to, and how decisions are made across the business. At a minimum, your org structure should include
employees’ titles and basic hierarchies. Organizational structures can use functions, markets,
products, geographies, or processes as their guide, and cater to businesses of specific sizes and
industries.

4. What types of organizational structures are there? List them all and explain them.

There are 4 basic types of organizational structures:

Chain of Command
Your chain of command is how tasks are delegated and work is approved. An org structure allows
you to define how many "rungs of the ladder" a particular department or business line should have. In
other words, who tells whom to do what? And how are issues, requests, and proposals communicated
up and down that ladder?
Departmentation
 Departmentation is one of the most important elements of your organizational structure. It clusters
your teams by similar roles and responsibilities and allows you to understand how each department
connects to one another.
Span of Control
Your span of control can represent two things: who falls under a manager's, well, management ... and
which tasks fall under a department's responsibility. Having a defined span of control not only avoids
double-work from your different teams, but helps you identify gaps in your structure.
Centralization
Centralization describes where decisions are ultimately made. Once you've established your chain of
command, you'll need to consider which people and departments have a say in each decision. A
business can lean toward centralized, where final decisions are made by just one or two entities; or
decentralized, where final decisions are made within the team or department in charge of carrying out
that decision.

5. What are some examples of formal and informal organization? Explain.

A formal organization is an organization with a fixed set of rules of intra-organization procedures and
structures. As such, it is usually set out in writing, with a language of rules that ostensibly leave little
discretion for interpretation. Churches, schools, hospitals, and companies are just a few examples.
Modern formal organizations allow us to accomplish tasks in the most efficient way possible.
An informal organization is a group of people who share a common identity and are committed to
achieving a common purpose. Informal organizations are created by the will and shared identity of
their members. Clubs or social networks are examples of informal organizations. Both types of
organizations share many features in common, but they also have meaningful differences.

6. What two characteristics distinguish formal from informal organizations?

The characteristics that distinguished formal from informal organizations is that formal organizations
are a fixed set of rules in an organization wherein formalization is the extent to which the policies,
procedure, job description and rules are written and explicitly articulated while in informal
organizations it focuses on building social relationships and networks.
Formal Organizations are bound together by authority relationship among members and a hierarchal
structure is created while Informal Organization is characterized by a generalized sort of power
relationship and people share common interest and identity.

Reference:
https://www.igi-global.com/dictionary/crowdsourcing-maturity-and-its-application-in-public-organization-
management/68345#:~:text=An%20institution%20or%20entity%2C%20usually,public%20services%20for
%20the%20society.
https://clutch.co/resources/financial-services/public-organization
https://www.fourthsector.org/what-is-the-fourth-sector#:~:text=The%20economies%20in%20most
%20countries,sector%20(a.k.a.%20civil%20society).
https://www.ngosource.org/what-is-an-ngo#:~:text=NGO%20stands%20for%20non%2Dgovernmental,all
%20parts%20of%20the%20world.
https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/team-structure-diagrams#:~:text=An%20organizational%20structure
%20is%20a,employees'%20titles%20and%20basic%20hierarchies.