Organizational Structure, Dynamics, and Environmental Factors
Elements of Organization
Organizations are managed through the understanding and guidance of various resources, efforts, and the willingness of people working collaboratively to achieve predetermined objectives.
Components of Organizational Structure
- Physical Structure: Components and relationships within a particular unit.
- Human Structure: The group of people and their interrelationships within a unit.
- Organization: The interrelation between physical and human structures in a unit.
Job and Organizational Mesh
- Job: Activity transforming resources to achieve goals.
- Organizational Mesh: Interpersonal working relations based on authority and responsibility, establishing hierarchical and functional levels.
- Informal Mesh: Affective relations within the organization, establishing social leadership.
Climate, Chaos, and Environment
- Climate: Satisfaction or dissatisfaction levels within the human structure related to objectives.
- Chaos: Lack of physical infrastructure hindering organization.
- Environment: Social, political, economic, cultural, and natural setting of the organization.
- Elements of the Organizational Environment: Parts of the environment interacting with the organization.
- Culture: History, traditions, and education shaping human behavior.
Information and Control Systems
- Information System: Reports on human structure, resource transformation, and organizational relations.
- Control System: Regulates organizational components, monitors order/disorder, and addresses deviations from objectives.
- Contingencies: Uncontrollable situations modifying structural relationships, affecting meshes, objectives, and social climate.
Laws Concerning Administration
- Administration is based on interpersonal relationships, both formal and informal, with people as active participants in resource transformation.
- Physical and Human Structure Relationship: Administration defines physical structure, but human structure activates it.
- Organizational and Informal Mesh Relationship: Proximity between meshes determines the social climate.
- Social Climate: Dissatisfaction leads to inefficiency; satisfaction enhances objective achievement.
- Affinity Relationship (Physical and Human Structure): Affinity influences efficiency and productivity.
- Physical Structure Stiffness: Lack of flexibility can deteriorate social climate.
- Physical Structure Flexibility: Excessive flexibility can lead to perceived chaos.
- Information System: Established on organizational authority lines but influenced by the informal mesh.
- Information and Control Systems: Similar structures but different objectives.
- System Design: Organizational mesh must be set first.
- System Inconsistencies: Negatively affect social climate.
- Contingencies: Directly affect social climate stability.