What is an organization LO16839

J.C. Lelie (janlelie@wxs.nl)
Wed, 04 Feb 1998 00:19:16 -0800

Replying to LO16776 --

Hi Dina,

I've three, no, four, shots for you:

I calls it as it is:
"an organisation is anything the customer says it is."

I calls it as i sees it:
"an organisation seems to me ever complexing processes of co-operating,
communicating, committing and confiding"

It ain't nothing until i calls it:
"a consensually validated grammar of interlocked behaviour for reducing
equivocality" (Weick, social psychology of organizing)

No thanks, no obligations, any time

Jan Lelie

Dina Rz wrote:

> I try to get a definition of "organization" and I can't.

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