Organizational Analysis -- National Pesto
An organization is a structure that comes together for a collective goal. There are a variety of types of organizations, both public and private, but from a process perspective, and organization is something that focuses on an agreed upon set of tasks or actions. There are four major types of organizations, pyramids or hierarchies, committees or juries, matrix, and ecological organizations.
Pyramids/Hierarchies -- are organizations with a leader at the top and a support staff. This is the typical office bureaucracy, and it is very structured.
Committees/Juries -- committees and juries operate as a group of peers who make decisions collectively, perhaps by voting. Often these types of groups need some structure (e.g. Robert's Rules of Order) to prevent discussions from devolving into non-action.
Matrix Management -- matrix organizations has a functional hierarchy...
Thus, one individual might have two or more supervisors, and the reporting lines work in tandem to provide overall support to the organizations goals.
Ecological Organizations -- this type of organization is based on nature -- the strong survive, the weak die. Intense competiton is the operative; weak parts starve, strong parts are rewarded. These types of organizations tend to be more autonomous, but with the right leadership can thrive (Lester and Parnell, 2006).
Within each of these broad organizational types, of course, there are a large number of theoretical approaches that focus on why the organization is functional or not. Our analysis will focus on a single organization, National Pesto Industries, and will adopt the Open Systems approach, seeing National Pesto as a social system that is both dependent and interdependent within the environment (niche) of its market.
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