Concept Of Organization As Systems

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1. Concept of Organization as systems Accordingly to Tony Watson (2002) organizations have goals which act as a glue together the various systems used to produce things (accomplish an overall goal). This view of organizations draws on the concept of an organization as a system of interacting subsystems and components set within wider systems and environment that provide inputs to the system and receive its outputs. (Barbara and Stephen, 2010). Like a living body, an organization is best understood as a whole, rather than in parts. (http:/www.ezinearticles.com) To explain, inputs to the system include resources such as raw materials, money, technologies and people. These inputs go through a process where they're aligned, moved along and carefully coordinated, ultimately to achieve the goals set for the system. Outputs are tangible results produced by processes in the system, such as products or services for consumers. Another kind of result is outcomes, or benefits for consumers, e.g., enhanced quality of life for customers. Feedback comes from, e.g., employees who carry out processes in the organization, customers/clients using the products and services, etc. Feedback also comes from the larger environment of the organization, e.g., influences from government, society, economics, and technologies. (http://www.managementhelp.org) Each organization has numerous subsystems that are organized in a hierarchy needed to accomplish the overall goal of the overall system. The main elements of most organizations and their functioning are grouped into two main subsystem namely the formal and informal. Formal subsystem include the organization’s strategy, whether this is devised by a single person or by a board of directors and top management group, organization’s goal and the means of achieving them, concept of organization’s structure, organization’s system,
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