BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Organization
- an arrangement of people and resources working in a planned manner toward specified strategic goals. An organization can be any structured body such as a business, company, or firm in the private or public sector, or in a nonprofit association.
- See also Organization Theory
Wiktionary Definition for: Organization
- uncountable The quality of being organized.
- Ex: ''This painting shows little organization at first glance, but little by little the structure becomes clear.''
- countable A group of people or other legal entities with an explicit purpose and written rules.
- Ex: ''In response to the crisis, the nations in the region formed an organization.''
- Ex: ''If you want to be part of this organization, you have to follow its rules.''
- countable A group of people consciously cooperating.
- Ex: ''Over time, the spontaneous movement had become an organization.''
Additional Resources
- Setting Up a Nonprofit Organization
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- Articles 2007-07-16
- Building a Learning Organization
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- Articles 2008-04-01
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- External links 2009-09-24
- Stanford's Lattin: Building and Managing a Sales Organization
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- Blog posts 2009-04-15
- Tools for Assessing Your Organization's Learning Capabilities
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- Blog posts 2008-03-03
- Office Organization
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- White papers 2007-12-01
- Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
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- Research articles 1997-01-01
- WHO recommends mass slaughter to combat bird flu in Asia.(Washington)(World Health Organization, Sacramento Bee )
- Three international agencies--The World Health Organization WHO, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization and the World Organization for Animal Health --urged killing birds as the best approach to controlling the outbreak of bird flu sweeping Asi Three international agencies--The World Health Organization WHO, the U.N....
- Research articles 2004-02-02
- Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
- Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development OECD An organization formed in 1961, replacing the Organization for European Economic Cooperation OEEC, to promote cooperation among industralized member countries on economic and social Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development OECD An...
- Research articles 2002-01-01
- Changing Jobs Within Your Organization
- If you like the company you are with but feel bored with your job and in need of a new challenge, you might want to consider applying for an internal vacancy. Internal job moves are generally considered easier to achieve than external ones. This is because the most convenient way...
- Articles 2007-05-01
- Learning Objectives For Organization Design
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- Presentations 2003-01-01
- The Measurement of Firm-Specific Organization Capital
- This article develops a firm-specific measure of organization capital and estimates it for a sample of approximately 250 companies. It tests the validity of the organization capital measure within a widely used investment valuation model and shows that the organization capital estimate contributes significantly to the explanation of market values...
- White papers 2003-03-01
- Creating An Organization Chart In Office 2003
- An organization chart graphically represents the management structure of an organization. There are several ways to create an organization chart in Microsoft Office 2003, depending on which Office 2003 program you want to use. Microsoft Office Visio 2003 has the most extensive collection of organization chart features, including a variety...
- White papers
- Organization a Top Concern of BNET Users
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- Blog posts 2008-05-23
- IRAN: IRAN WILL JOIN WTO WITHIN NEXT FIVE YEARS - MPO OFFICIAL.(World Trade Organization, Management and Planning Organization )(Brief Article)
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- Research articles 2005-06-14
- IRAN: TALKS ON ECO MEMBER COUNTRIES JOINING WTO.(Economic Cooperation Organization, World Trade Organization)(Brief Article)
- According to Al-Wifaq newspaper, negotiations between representatives of the Regional Economic Cooperation Organization ECO and the World Trade Organization were held at the beginning of May 2000 with ... According to Al-Wifaq newspaper, negotiations between representatives of the Regional Economic Cooperation Organization ECO and...
- Research articles 2000-11-06
- Lockheed Martin forms new space exploration organization; John Karas to lead organization, draw upon resources across Lockheed Martin.
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- Research articles 2004-02-24
- Enabling the Informal Organization
- With today’s widespread accessibility of information and wall-to-wall communication, the idea of leveraging informal organizations has become much more popular in the board room, as well as such realms as political campaigning and independent music distribution.Grassroots and word-of-mouth efforts on social networking sites like myspace have allowed both politicians and...
- Blog posts 2007-08-20
- High Performance Organization Structures and Characteristics
- The search for an ideal or perfect structure is about as futile as trying to find the ideal canned improvement process to drop on the organization or ourselves. It depends on the organization's Context and Focus (vision, values, and purpose), goals and priorities, skill and experience levels, culture, teams' effectiveness...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- The Developmentally Delayed Organization
- Every organization needs an integrated process for managing people and for controlling this management process. The solution to the Developmentally Delayed Organization DDO Syndrome is to institutionalize the way people are to be managed, so that good management practices aren't dependent on individual managers, but are a feature and strength...
- White papers 2003-01-01
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