Individuals in the Organization
Chapter 4
Individual in the Organization
A study of the individual in an organization is important, for the bulk of the adult population spends more than a third of its waking hours in the organization by which it is employed. And for most people, formal organizations represent a major part of the environment that exerts a significant effect upon their behavior.
To represent individual in an organization, we must look into organization as a social system.
1. Social System
a. Human Organization – Status and Role
2. Organization
a. Concepts or Organization
3. Organization as a Social System
4. Human Element in Organization
5. Informal Groups in an Organization
6. Occupational Culture
SOCIAL SYSTEM
The word system can be traced back to Aristotle who suggested that ‘the whole is greater than the source of its parts’. The concept of general systems theory founded by biologist, Von Vetalanfy in 1920, assumes that ‘general laws and concepts for the foundation of such disease fields as biology and physiology, the physical sciences, the basic concepts of economics and psychology in the social sciences, are that things do not just happen, but rather that they evolve from multiple causes and multiple effects. ‘
A system may be defined as a series of interrelated and interdependent parts, such that the interaction or interplay of any of the subsystems (parts) affects the whole organization. All areas or sections within the organization function in a coordinate way to be effectively productive for progress.
For our purpose we shall briefly discuss the human organization and social organization to show the individual’s relation to the total system. This organization operates in a complex system of values and relationships which may be conceptualized as a social system.
HUMAN ORGANIZATION
Status and Roles Human organization as a system can be likened to a human model using the biological approach which considers the nervous, circulatory, digestive, reproductive, etc. system
Individual in the Organization
A study of the individual in an organization is important, for the bulk of the adult population spends more than a third of its waking hours in the organization by which it is employed. And for most people, formal organizations represent a major part of the environment that exerts a significant effect upon their behavior.
To represent individual in an organization, we must look into organization as a social system.
1. Social System
a. Human Organization – Status and Role
2. Organization
a. Concepts or Organization
3. Organization as a Social System
4. Human Element in Organization
5. Informal Groups in an Organization
6. Occupational Culture
SOCIAL SYSTEM
The word system can be traced back to Aristotle who suggested that ‘the whole is greater than the source of its parts’. The concept of general systems theory founded by biologist, Von Vetalanfy in 1920, assumes that ‘general laws and concepts for the foundation of such disease fields as biology and physiology, the physical sciences, the basic concepts of economics and psychology in the social sciences, are that things do not just happen, but rather that they evolve from multiple causes and multiple effects. ‘
A system may be defined as a series of interrelated and interdependent parts, such that the interaction or interplay of any of the subsystems (parts) affects the whole organization. All areas or sections within the organization function in a coordinate way to be effectively productive for progress.
For our purpose we shall briefly discuss the human organization and social organization to show the individual’s relation to the total system. This organization operates in a complex system of values and relationships which may be conceptualized as a social system.
HUMAN ORGANIZATION
Status and Roles Human organization as a system can be likened to a human model using the biological approach which considers the nervous, circulatory, digestive, reproductive, etc. system