 A social unit of people that is structured and managed to meet a

need or to pursue collective goals. All organizations have a

management structure that determines relationships between the

different activities and the members, and subdivides and assigns

roles, responsibilities, and authority to carry out different tasks.

Organizations are open systems--they affect and are affected by

their environment.
 TYPES/CLASSIFICATIONS

 legal types of organizations,

including corporations, governments, non-governmental

organizations, political organizations, international

organizations, armed forces, charities, not-for-profit

corporations, partnerships, cooperatives, and educational institutions.

STRUCTURES

THE STUDY OF ORGANIZATIONS INCLUDES A FOCUS ON

OPTIMIZING ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE. ACCORDING

TO MANAGEMENT SCIENCE, MOST HUMAN ORGANIZATIONS FALL

ROUGHLY INTO FOUR TYPES:[CITATION NEEDED]

COMMITTEES OR JURIES

ECOLOGIES

MATRIX ORGANIZATIONS

PYRAMIDS OR HIERARCHIES
THEORIES ON ORGANIZATIONS AND MANAGEMENT
 Organizational theory consists of approaches
to organizational analysis. ...Theories of organizations
include rational system perspective, division of labour,
bureaucratic theory, and contingency theory.
 Management theories are the set of general rules
that guide the managers to manage an
organization. Theories are an explanation to assist
employees to effectively relate to the business goals
and implement effective means to achieve the same.
Compare classical management theory to any
contemporary
DISSECTING AND DEMYSTIFYING

ORGANIZATIONAL CLIMATE AND

CULTURE TOWARDS EMPOWERMENT

AND SOCIAL/GENDER EQUALITY AND

JUSTICE I.E. GENDER ISSUES IN THE

WORK PLACE