Importance of Organization
Various organizations had become one part in our lives. An organization can be defined formally to be “a group of people working through collective action to reach a common goal.” In other words, it is a group of people who pursues the same goal though well-developed plans. Although the goals and size of organizations are different from each other, they still have many central concepts in common.
First, an organization is consisted of several highly specialized departments and a central control unit. Specialization is an effective way to maximum the whole group’s productivity. One person cannot master 10 various tasks in the same time, but he may do excellent jobs if concentrate on only one task at a time. For example, several people want to organize a computer company, and then the structure may look like this: one person in charge of purchase, one for R&D, one for marketing, and one for customer service. However, specialization only does not form an organization. Central control unit is also a crucial part. Central control unit, in other words, a leader, is a unit which integrates the information from different departments, makes sure every department cooperate well with each other, and then makes decisions about what to do next. In the computer company mentioned before, the leader may have to tell the marketing to create a new advertisement if R&D department develop a new model. With the cooperation of specialized departments and central control unit, the organization operates smoothly, or it may collapse.
Besides specialization, organization ensures optimum use of resources. For example, human resource is one of the hardest to control. A right person must be put on the right place to make his effort maximize. Additionally, a well organized human distribution ensures no overlapping activities or duplication of two works. Without careful distribution of resources, too many overlapping projects are a waste of resources. Moreover, when a project is failed, it would be hard to identify which department is responsible for this.
By cooperation and specialization, an organization can achieve goals lies beyond abilities of a single person. A person’s time and effort is limited. An organization combines different people with various features so that every member is able to contribute their own parts to the organization as a whole. Therefore, the productivity is far larger than a single person.
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