Implication of Living in Organizational Sociaety

Introduction

If someone were to describe the living in an organizational society he or she would describe it as a structure of domination where power and domination refer to a collective capacity to act. As a result, organizational analysis is basically concerned with the mechanisms and strategies where sub organizations (schools, church etc) are produced dealing with societal contexts and problems of every day life.

The world we live in today has gone through some rough times in the last decades or so. The end of the cold war, the collapse of the Soviet Union, the birth of the European Union and the introduction to high technology, forced our societies to get organized in order to face uncertainty, competitiveness, instability of environments, risk in order to envision a better future upon knowledge derived from past experience.

We could therefore assume that organizational society could be seen as a “system of perceptions, meanings, laws, beliefs which facilitates sense-making amongst a group of people sharing common values and experiences”. According to Gulowsen (1972) organizational society is constructed on the assumption that groups have consequences on the employees’ personalities. The Development of groups affects the workers self-esteem, self-actualisation and self-development in general. Groups also increase the satisfaction, productivity and performance of workers in the workplace and therefore the productivity of the organization.

Of course, sometimes organizational productivity in a form of teamwork does not always produce the anticipated benefits. It sometimes produces frustration and stress in those outside of the power elite, such as the middle and lower-level employee. This is why amongst an organizational structure of groups you need the groups to have certain quality of decision making, abilities to communicate, cohesion, clarity, and acceptance of goals. Experiences of individual organization are first analyzed and shared among the...