• BACKGROUND
• OPEN-SYSTEMS THEORY
• KATZ AND KAHN
• SUBSYSTEMS
• BASIC ORGANIZATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS
• BASIC ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURES
• FURTHER READING:

An organization, by its most basic definition, is an assembly of people working together to achieve common objectives through a division of labor. People form organizations because individuals have limited abilities. An organization provides a means of using individual strengths within a group to achieve more than can be accomplished by the aggregate efforts of group members working individually. Business organizations (in market economies) are formed to profit by delivering a good or service to...