Organization Fundamentals

An important aspect to that will inform my understanding of organization fundamentals is that organizations function as social systems that are created in order to fulfill a specific goal and have formal structure. The purpose of the structure is to enhance internal coordination and to offer the right response to external environment. An organization is set up to fulfill a certain vision or goal, which can be either to make profit or to achieve a social impact rather than profit (Daft, Murphy & Willmott, 2010).  Through the facilitation of innovation and more efficiency production of goods and services, an organization is able to achieve these goals.

People form part of an organization and the key to its success is the communication between them. Organizational structure consist of the formal reporting  and hierarchy relationships between the organizational managers and the firm’s subordinates and are normally divided into  smaller functional  units depending on its level of maturity and size (Daft, Murphy & Willmott, 2010). Processes in the organization consist of policies and rules human resource development process that offer help in management of the firm. System comprises of people or resources that set goals for acquired resources, and structure and produce a product as an output to be used in the environment. Culture results from the interactions between people, goals and resources whose structure is managed through various processes which assist in the entire management (Daft, Murphy & Willmott, 2010). An organization is normally under the influence of external environment. Introduction to organizational fundamentals will be of little use going forward, especially on historical and evolution aspect of the various forms of organization. Though such information is necessary for background understanding it may be of little usage in learning the current and future of an organization.

References

Daft, R. L., Murphy, J., & Willmott, H. (2010). Organization theory and design. Andover: South-Western Cengage Learning.90-97