Chapter 4 - Organizing

Organizing: Key Concepts and Features

• Organizing involves creating an organizational structure with defined roles and interrelationships to eliminate ambiguity in duties and enable people to work together for a common purpose.
• The organizational structure is designed to include suitably skilled individuals and define the interrelationship between roles.
• The aim of organizing is to enable people to work together for a common purpose.
• An organization is a composition of interrelated individuals, not merely a random collection of people, and it exists as a separate entity from its environment.
• The identifiable interrelated group of individuals determines the boundary of the organization.
• An organization is a deliberately constructed or reconstructed social unit, differentiating it from other social units.
• It is a system of consciously coordinated activities of two or more persons.
• Members enter the organization through a contract and can be removed if their performance is unsatisfactory, establishing a purely contractual relationship.
• The organization can recreate groups through promotions, demotions, or transfers of people within the organization.
• The deliberate and conscious creation and recreation of the organization set it apart from other social units.
• The relationship between members and the organization is of a purely contractual nature.
• The organization can modify its structure through promotions, demotions, or transfers of individuals.