ORGANIZATION

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1. an organization means the act of organizing or the process of being organized. The state or manner of being organized: "A high degree of organization." Something that has been organized or made into an ordered whole. A number of persons or groups having specific responsibilities and united for some purpose or work. Thus an organization is an activity or area that is being organized or has been organized or made into an "ordered whole." (HCO PL 29 Oct 71 II)

2. organization is composed of terminals and lines and the terminals are there with a common purpose but they are united by lines. (5812C16)

3. an organization is essentially a service delivery unit. The continued expansion of an organization depends upon high volume flubless delivery. (HCO PL 29 Aug 71)

4. an or on is composed of trained people, it isn't composed of dead bodies. (FEBC 6, 7101C23 SO II)

5. a group of people that has more or less constant membership, a body of officers, a purpose and usually a set of regulations. (HCO PL 9 Nov 68)

6. an interdependent activity coordinated by its leaders. (HCO PL 19 Oct 67 I) 7. an organization is a complex mechanism. It is made up of associated individuals who have an agreed upon goal or intention. They are going along in some direction which they do not too violently disagree with, and it will make progress to the degree that it stays in agreement and holds its form and to the degree that it refines its form to meet new threats to its existence and so it will survive. (SH Spec 77, 6608C23)

7. evidently an organization is a number of terminals and communication lines with a common purpose. The purpose associates and keeps in contact with one another the terminals and the lines. That's all an organization is. It isn't a factory, it isn't a house. It isn't a machine, it isn't a product. It's not a command chart. If you look it over in the light of that simplicity you can actually form one and get one to function. (0 S-9, 561 1C08)

8. an organization optimumly would be composed of communication terminals. If we look it over and find an organization is composed of communication terminals then we decide that a communication terminal had better have a communication line. So we find an organization consists of communication terminals and communication lines associated with a common purpose or goal. (OS-9, 5611CO8)

9. it's a group of associated comm lines and terminals which is itself a single terminal and it has ingo and outcome lines. (OS-9, 5611CO8)

10. a servo-mechanism to the doingness of people. (OS-10, 5611C15)

11. an organization is something which has its own spirit. It is composed of people or living beings who are governed by certain rules and purposes and who know how to do their jobs. That is an organization and when any of those factors are neglected it becomes a "thing" even though it still has a name and legal standing. (PAB 90)

12. an organization is composed of terminals and communication lines related by a common purpose. That's an organization. And all the organizational pattern does is help separate the types of particles being handled. That, in a nutshell, is an organization and what it does. (5812C29)

13. the word organization in Scn policy means an activity organized on the seven division system authorized by myself and regular official Scn organizations and under Worldwide. (HCO PL 11 Aug 67 II)

14. the essence of organization is org boarding, posting with reality and, in keeping with the duties being performed, training and hatting. To this has to be added the actual performance of the duties so that the activity is productive. Another ingredient that goes hand in hand with organization and survival is toughness. The ability to stand up to and confront and handle whatever comes the way of the organization depends utterly on the ability of the individuals of the organization to stand up to, confront and handle what comes the individual's way. The composite whole of this ability makes a tough organization. Confidence in one's teammates is another factor in organization survival. Confidence in one's self is something that has to be earned. It is respect. This is a compound of demonstrated competence, being on post and being dependable. (OODs 10 Nov 71)

15. organization is basically foresight and prediction and putting in stable terminals that will handle the flows. What belongs where? (FEBC 1, 7011C17 SO)

16. consists of a real and functional org board, hats consisting of checksheets, packs and manuals and training of this material. (HCO PL 8 Oct 70)

17. the purpose of organisation is to make planning become actuality. Organization is not just a fancy complex system, done for its own sake. That is bureaucracy at its worst. Org boards for the sake of org boards, graphs for the sake of graphs, rules for the sake of rules only add up to failures. There is a lot to organization. It requires trained administrators who can forward the programs. (HCO PL 14 Sept 69)

18. the subdivision of actions and duties into specialized functions. (HCO PL 7 Mar 69)

19. organization consists of certain people doing certain jobs. (HCO PL 1 Jul 65 III)

20. smooth organization consists of having a terminal for each type of activity in which the organization is engaged. There can be four or five activities to one terminal so long as three things are obeyed: (1) the terminal itself has to know it; (2) nearby terminals have to know it; (3) distant terminals have to know it. (PAB 78)

21. the attempt to establish terminals and flows so as to bring about an orderly flow of energy or matter. (5303C25)