Management Consulting - Theories of Organization

By Martins Okosina

Our world is that of organization. Most of man's activities are executed by joining groups and thus are more of collective efforts. We depend on another for our ambition, achievement of objectives. It does not matter whether those objectives are individually centred or not. We also own our existence and continuity to the groups to which we are members. We learn to live together than to be in isolation. From childhood, we had been members of many social groups while some play primary role in our lives others are secondary.

Think back from birth the member of association you had belonged to age grades, school mates, playmates, kindred, dancing groups, religions, societies, employee group, cafeteria, friends and committee membership. Certainly, you have been a member of million of organizations. And the longer one lives the more groups he is associated with.

Importance Of Joining Organization

1. We become members of a group in order to be able to accomplish those tasks which we cannot achieve individually. For example it is unconventional for a person to embark on building a house alone doing the architectural designs and modeling,masonry, carpentry, brick casting, etc. Thus, he needs to combine his ability with the abilities of other persons.

2. To save time: Generally, a co-operation of people can facilitate the performance of functions faster than single individuals. It takes more time for an individual to do a job than when many hands do the same job.

3. To earn living essentially, people join some association in order to earn their livelihood: This explains the main reason why workers take jobs. In a very stable economy, with adequate employment opportunities, the turnover of labour is a function of the enterprise ability to pay.

4. People also join groups for social reasons: We want to know people and not be isolated. Thus, the need for association, popularity, identification or conformity is a strong motive for joining groups. These social aims have made it that some people may not have objective reasons why they are joining association. They are just member just to let people know that they belong to a certain group.

5. Acquisition of power and influence may be the factor for joining association: Human beings generally want power, they want to command affairs of others and have influence wherever they go. This set of persons becomes members of certain association just to acquire and enlarge their authority and influence.

6. There is also the need to service. Seldom, people are inspired to join groups just to offer their services to humanity, members of Boys Scout, Girls guide, Red cross society and Rotary are cases to emphasize.

7. To exchange ideal and knowledge; we learn more as group members than when we are on our own. We inter change knowledge and information which will improve our methods of doing things. The more exposed we are the faster the learning process.

Finally, in this connection, we shall not lose sight to the experience of the older-years generations. By group association and efforts, the knowledge and transfers property of the deal generations is retained, maintained and transformed properly to the present and future generations.

Martins W Okosina is a Professional Administrator by Profession with over 5years of experience. Find out how effective business consulting can help you.
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