UNDERSTANDING ORGANIZATIONS

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UNDERSTANDING ORGANIZATIONS

Word of the organization comes from the Greek term Organum Organon and the Latin term which means the appliance, parts, members, or entities. In literature today, meaning the organization varied, depending on what angle. Experts concerned, differences in the sense that we can classify into one of two opinions about the organization.

James D. Mooney said, the shape of each union human beings organization to achieve a common goal. Chester I. Barnard gives understanding the organization as a system of cooperation activities carried out by two or more people.

When compared to the second opinion, actually there is no essential difference because James D. Mooney saw it as an organization "agency" where there is a union of man to achieve a common goal, while Chester I. Barnard saw an organization that, schematic composition, where the pictorial "system" than cooperation activities. In other words, each seeing it from an organizational aspect.

Without defining what the organization, some authors argue that there are three characteristics of an organization, namely
  1. existence of a group of people
  2. inter-relationships occur in a harmonious cooperation, and
  3. cooperation based on rights, obligations and responsibilities of each person to reach the goal.

With the third feature mentioned, it is clear what can be put into understanding the organization and what can not be inserted into it.

From the above explanation, it can be concluded that the organization can be defined as follows.
  1. Organization in the sense of loss is a group of people working together to achieve one or several specific purposes.
  2. Organizational chart or structure within the meaning is scara schematic illustration of the relationships, the cooperation of the people there in order to attempt to achieve a goal.