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What Is An Organizati ON?: COM Elec 007

An organization is a social unit comprising multiple people that works together towards collective goals. Organizations have a management structure that determines relationships between activities and members. There are two main kinds of organizations: hybrid organizations that operate in both the public and private sectors, and voluntary associations consisting of volunteers. Organizations can also be classified as legal types like corporations, governments, and non-profits, or illegal/secret types like criminal organizations and resistance movements. Common organizational structures include committees, ecologies, matrix structures, and pyramid/hierarchical models.

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What Is An Organizati ON?: COM Elec 007

An organization is a social unit comprising multiple people that works together towards collective goals. Organizations have a management structure that determines relationships between activities and members. There are two main kinds of organizations: hybrid organizations that operate in both the public and private sectors, and voluntary associations consisting of volunteers. Organizations can also be classified as legal types like corporations, governments, and non-profits, or illegal/secret types like criminal organizations and resistance movements. Common organizational structures include committees, ecologies, matrix structures, and pyramid/hierarchical models.

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What is an

ORGANIZATI
ON?
COM Elec 007

ORGANIZATION
anentitycomprising
multiplepeople that has a
collective goal and is linked to
an external environment
a group of people who work
together
from
the
Greek
wordorganon, which means

giving an organic structure to


something understanding
the function some part of the
larger whole is supposed to
fulfill, and making that happen
can also refer to a system of
arrangement or order, or a
structure for classifying things

An organization is a
socialunitof people that
isstructuredand managed to
meet a needor to pursue
collective goals.

All organizations have a


management structurethat
determines relationships
between the
differentactivitiesand the
members, and subdivides and
assigns roles, responsibilities,
andauthorityto carry out
differenttasks.

2 Kinds of Organization
1. Hybrid organization
2. Voluntary association

1. A hybrid organizationis a
body that operates in both
thepublic
sectorand
theprivate
sector
simultaneously, fulfilling public
duties
and
developing
commercial market activities.

2. Avoluntary associationis
an organization consisting of
volunteers. Such organizations
may be able to operate without
legal formalities, depending on
jurisdiction,
including
informalclubs.

2 Types of Organization
1.Legal Type
2.Illegal/Secret Type

Legal Type

Corporations
Governments
Non-governmental organizations
Political organizations
International organizations

Legal Type

Armed forces
Charities
Not-for-profit corporations
Partnerships
Cooperatives
Educational institutions

Illegal/Secret Type
Secret societies
Criminal organizations
Resistance movements

Structures of
Organization

Committeesorjuries
Ecologies
Matrixorganizations
Pyramidsorhierarchies

Committees or juries
- consist of a group of peers who
decide as a group, perhaps by voting

Ecologies
- has intensecompetition (Bad parts of the
organization starve; good ones get more work.)

Matrix organizations
- assigns each worker two bosses in two
different hierarchies (One hierarchy is
functional and the other is executive.)

Pyramidsorhierarchies
- exemplifies an arrangement with aleaderwho
leads other individual members of the organization

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