Sunday, 25 January 2009

DEFINATION OF ORGANIZATIONS

ORGANIZATIONS

"Organisations are social arrangements for achieving controlled performance in pursuit of collective goals”

Reference --(Huczynski, Andrzej and Buchanan, David, (2001) "Organisational Behaviour, An Introductory Text", 4th Edition, Prentice Hall, page 5)

It can be hereby understood that organisations are social arrangements of like minded people who share their information to acheive a similar goal . but this can only be acheived when the organization is able to constantly interact with the world around it as it is said that they do not operate in a vacuum .

Like in an organization there is a group of the head honchos of an organization who sit down and discuss the various aspects in the organization and then they make arrangements in order to fulfill the various aspects and then they set up a particular goal or target and then these arrangements are passed on to the next level that are the managers and then it is passed to the employees who implement those strategies in order to acheive the goal that was set up by the head honchos .
This is a triangle through which the communication is done within the organization to share the knowledge and achieve the desired goal.

Here I can give you an example of a car manufacturing organization that works on the term 'import-transformation-export' here these terms are the basic work like the car plant imports various resources from its envoirnment such as materials, component parts ,storage facilities ,staff to run the factory and the energy to provide heating and lightning and run the machinery , the car plant then transforms these resources in to vehicles which then are exported to a dealer who then sells it to the public .

an Example of such a vehicle manufacturing organization is the HERO HONDA which has a defined goal to be the largest two wheeler organization in South Asia in the next 10 years .

6 comments:

  1. good use of 'social arrangement's' which is what I also percieve in an organization. Do you remember the different layers in an organization? (The triangle) To make the social arrangement more meaningful, I would like that add that employees from different section's interact.

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  2. nice hamza i too got the meaning of social arrangement. if u give further information about it i can go through on it more

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  3. Hi Hamza.. u have done a smart work man.. but it would have been more better if you have clearly stated the reference of the definition for knowledge management in your version..

    hoping same work in future..

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  4. Hello Team members: Abhinay & Deepak, very good to see that you are commenting on each other's thoughts. :)

    Abhinay - if you 'got' the meaning of social arrangement - Can you give an example...?

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  5. Ya group memebers I have added an example too ,I hope that you may gain some help from it.

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  6. Some good key words… but you should provide some examples to support your ideas, with appropriate referencing….

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