What is an Organization? - the Nature of Organizations

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This is the first video of our course on the nature of organizations, so we answer the question: ‘What is an Organization?’

Watching this video is worth 1 Management Courses CPD Point*.
(See below for more details)

The Nature of Organizations
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This video is part of course module number 6.1.1
Program 6: Managing within Organizations
Course 1: The Nature of Organizations
Section 1: Introduction to Organizations


Other videos in this section include:
- What is an Organization? https://youtu.be/bfqubYe8YNA
- Morgan’s 8 Organizational Metaphors: An Organization is Like a… https://youtu.be/a60rsgbmw2c
- Organizations as Structures: Understanding an Organization as a Structure https://youtu.be/LLnoTLkapjo
- Organizations as Processes: Understanding an Organization as a Set of Processes https://youtu.be/i51iHWLB3hE
- The Features of Organizations: What an Organization Needs https://youtu.be/vVwryqV92KE
- Why do we need Organizations? Structure vs Agility https://youtu.be/o9u0i0wOog4


LESSON NOTES
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An organization is a grouping of people, assets, material, and knowledge, that are co-ordinated to meet a set of objectives (or serve a purpose)

They serve need to control something larger and more complex than a self-coordinating group of people can hold in their heads.

To do this, they bring resources together and use them to carry out a range of inter-related activities.

Tendencies to bureaucracy and hierarchy… with the aim of efficiency.

Richard Pascale:
‘Organizations are, in the last analysis, interactions among people’.

This view of an organization as a network of relationships straddles the metaphors of:
- Structure (the network) and
- Process (the interactions)
We look at these two perspectives in:
- Organizations as Structures: Understanding an Organization as a Structure https://youtu.be/LLnoTLkapjo
- Organizations as Processes: Understanding an Organization as a Set of Processes https://youtu.be/i51iHWLB3hE

Can be temporary or permanent – but realistically cannot be static – must evolve to meet changing needs, exploit new opportunities, and counter emerging threats.

Permanent organizations include enterprises, corporations, companies, partnerships, charities, authorities, schools, hospitals, government departments, local governments, military units, emergency services, clubs and associations

Temporary organizations include teams, projects, expeditions, crews, committees

But one thing is for certain – An organization may be able to work without managers. But a Manager needs an organization within which to work. The job of a group of managers is to make their organization work effectively.


RECOMMENDED EXERCISE
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Think about organizations that you have worked in or with, and also other organizations you have encountered.
1. How does our description of what an organization is fit with each of those examples? (3 MC CPD Points)
2. What else do those organizations teach you about what an organization is? (3 MC CPD Points)

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RECOMMENDED READING
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- Understanding Organizations https://geni.us/oB774Do
- Images of Organization https://geni.us/hrOemEs
- Inside Organizations: 21 Ideas for Managers https://geni.us/YwwL
- Gods of Management: The Four Cultures of Leadership https://geni.us/bpPeC5


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