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
- Office Organization
- Office organization has a lot to do with your work style. The important thing is to be able to reach anything you need promptly. This paper explains classifying organization into three major categories. These are office organization, personal organization and computer organization. Steps to help you improve your time management...
- White papers 2007-12-01
- Communicating The Story
- The vision of an organization is a future-oriented aspiration of the organization and communicates the reason for the organization’s existence. The organizational strategy is based upon the vision of the organization. It is imperative to effectively communicate the vision among all the members of the organization. Only then can the...
- Presentations 2003-01-01
- Achieving A Shared Vision That Positions IT
- Vision spells out the desired future state of an organization. It contains the philosophy of the organization. The strategy and the activities of the organization are based on the principles contained in the organization’s vision. Business visions are attractive and credible to the members of the organization. In today’s dynamic...
- Presentations 2003-01-01
- Managing For Organizational Integrity
- Ethics consists of moral guidelines as to what is right and what is wrong for the organization. They play an important role in shaping the behavior of the individual working in the organization. The strategy towards building a sound integrity framework in the organization requires intertwining of legal and ethical...
- Presentations 2003-01-01
- Change Management Learning Center
- In today’s dynamic business environment, a change effected in an organization aligns the organization with changing situations. This ensures that the organization is in harmony with the changing times and not falling behind in the intensely competitive market. For this, the organization has to perennially manage change. The organization undergoes...
- Presentations 2003-01-01
- The Metrics Maze
- The Human Resource (HR) forms the backbone of any organization. The employees of the organization are responsible for taking the organization to ‘dizzy’ heights of success. They overhaul the organizational systems and processes and make them efficient. Therefore, it is imperative for the organization to measure the human capital possessed...
- White papers 2003-12-01
- Managing Organizational Change
- The external and internal environment of an organization is in a state of constant change. The organization has to re-adjust itself to this changing scenario in order to sustain competitive advantage in the market. Learning is a tool, which the organization uses for re-aligning itself according to the change. Learning...
- Presentations 2003-01-01
- Developing And Leading The Self-Sustaining Organization
- The vision of an organization communicates the basic reason for the organization’s existence to the outside world. It plays a significant role in the long-term development of the organization. It is the basic philosophy of the organizations towards which its goals, strategies, and other activities are oriented. The creation of...
- Presentations 2003-01-01
- Ethical Behavior
- The approach while defining ethics in an organization must be philosophical. The absence of good ethics could be detrimental to an organization, as customers might get repulsive. This paper explains why an organization must turn to ethics in the current business scenario and to whom should the organization be ethical...
- Presentations 2003-01-01
- Overcoming Resistance To Change During Transformation
- A change is effected in an organization to overhaul the existing organizational systems and processes. Effective change ushers in greater efficiency in the organization’s workflow systems. When a change is brought about in the organization, initially, there is resistance to change because individuals have the fear of unknown. The challenge...
- Presentations 2003-01-01
- The Value Of Person-Organization Fit
- The ‘heart’ of every hiring process is establishing a ‘perfect’ fit between the candidate and the job or the organization. Such match is imperative for aligning the individual expectations and goals with that of the organization. This strategic fit helps to create ‘value’ for the organization in the long-run. The...
- White papers 2004-05-20
- Change Factory
- In today’s dynamic business environment, an organization has to perennially manage change. The organization undergoes transition in order to manage change. It is important for the growth and development of the organization. One of the signs of a healthy organization is the continuous management of change and involvement of the...
- White papers 2000-06-01
- How To Grow Everything But Shareholder Wealth
- The prime aim of an organization is to maximize shareholder wealth. Value is something more than the usual offering from an organization. An organization has to devise effective strategies to enable value-creation for the shareholders. This ensures success for the organization in the long-run. The paper examines six strategies that...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Learning Objectives For Organization Design
- This presentation is about organization structure and design. The purpose of this presentation is to explain objectives for organization design, key factors in organization design decisions, basic types of task environments , types of task interdependence in organization design and options of organizational design. It illustrates the basic matrix design...
- Presentations 2003-01-01
- Organizational Change Management
- In today’s dynamic business environment, an organization has to perennially manage change. The organization undergoes transition in order to manage change. Change management is important for the growth and development of the organization. Initially, there is resistance to change in the organization because the members of the organization are apprehensive...
- Presentations 2003-01-01
- Organizational Effectiveness
- The focus of this presentation lies on Organization Effectiveness. Effectiveness is defined as degree to which an organization realizes its goals. Some of the traditional approaches, which have been adopted include: goal approach, system resource approach, and internal process approach. In addition, some of the ways of achieving the organization...
- Presentations 2003-01-01
- Effective Organization management
- A four-year-old organization is experiencing decreasing client satisfaction and growing employee morale problems as the organization grows. How is the organization structured to meet its goals now versus the early days? Are roles and responsibilities clear among units? The firm with time aroused these types of questions. This case study...
- Case studies
- Organizational Change
- An organization is subjected to constant changes in its external and internal environment. To stay afloat in the market, it is imperative for the organization to adapt itself to these changes. Change management is the concrete methodology followed by an organization in adapting to an environmental or otherwise change. Learning...
- Presentations 2003-01-01
- Organizational Change And Development
- In an organization, it is very essential to have regular changes and development in order to bring effectiveness. Organization brings a change mainly because of planned and unplanned change. However, there are external as well as internal forces, which also contribute towards bringing a change in the organization. The various...
- Presentations 2003-01-01
- Managing Within Your Company
- The salespeople are responsible for making sales in an organization. They serve as the representatives of the company before clients. The salespeople also help build internal relationships between different functional areas of the organization. They serve as internal customers in the organization and give impetus to the principles of Total...
- Presentations 2003-01-01
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