Organizational Structure

Organization Basics

Definition

An organization is a group of people working collectively towards a common goal.

• Society is an organization.

• Community is an organization.

• Family is an organization.

Optimization

Great organizations bring out the best that their groups can achieve.

• The best productive and educational efficiency and versatility.

• The best intrinsic motivation.

• The best organizational resilience.

Identification

Organizations differentiate themselves using unique names.

• A name could be “Remarian Center for Organizational Research”

• A name could be “Navigation Team”

Inclusivity

Organizations are inclusive.

• People can be a part of many organizations at the same time.

• Organizations can be a part of many organizations at the same time.

Tasks

Organizations need their members to work on tasks.

• The members must figure out what tasks are necessary.

• The members must figure out how tasks are distributed.

• The members must figure out how to revise the set of tasks.

• The members must figure out how to redistribute tasks.

Systems

Organizations use systems to organize their tasks.

• A system is a network of inter-connected things.

• A system can break down something broad, such as firefighting, into more specific things, such as driving to the location and spraying water on the fire.

• A system can group specific things, such as lifting a cup of water and pouring water into the mouth, into something more broad, such as water-drinking.

• A system needs to break down an organization's goals enough so that the members know exactly what tasks are required.

• A system needs to group an organization's tasks into unique categories so that the members can easily understand and talk about the system from different scales and perspectives.

Task Distribution and System Revision

Organizations need to assign different tasks to different people, and reassign tasks especially after a change in the system.

• Organizations include their methods for task distribution, redistribution, and system revision within their system.

• Organizations can use their system's method of system revision to revise their method of system revision, as well as everything else in the system.

Organization Advanced

System Creation: Splitting the Breakdown

New organizations need an efficient way to create their system within a set time period.

• System-creation involves the incremental breakdown of broad goals into specific tasks.

• A team can only break down a goal so many times before the next incremental step becomes too much for them to handle alone for a given deadline.

• At that point, the team may split the work in half with another team, or split in as many pieces to as many teams necessary to complete the system-creation within the deadline.

• The new teams may do the same, splitting their work with other teams, and so on.

Documentation: Passive Communication

Members of an organization need to publicly document their progress in detail so that people can inform themselves about the state of the system without active communication.

• People in the organization can more easily inform themselves about particular system parameters that provide much-needed constraints for their work

• People out of the organization can more easily provide peer review

• People in and out of the organization can more easily learn about particular processes of the system for educational benefit.