Definition Organization Long Longevity

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I would appreciate it if you can keep the textbook info I provided in mind while working on the paper.

Answer the following four prompts:

1) What is the definition of an organization? Briefly explain each part of the definition.

According to my textbook, organization is:

  • Social entities that are goal-directed
  • Designed as deliberately structured and coordinated activity systems
  • Linked to the external environment

2) A handful of companies on the Fortune 500 list are more than 100 years old, which is rare. What organizational characteristics do you think might explain 100-year long longevity?

3) What are the primary differences between an organic and a mechanistic organizational design? What type of an organization do you think would be easier to manage? Why?

Textbook:Organic vs. Mechanistic

Mechanistic – characterized by machine-like standard rules and procedures with clear authority

Organic – design of organization is looser, free-flowing, and adaptive

Depends upon:

  • Structure
  • Tasks/Roles
  • System Formality
  • Communication
  • Hierarchy versus Collaboration

4) Early management theorists believed that organizations should strive to be logical and rational, with a place for everything and everything in its place. Please discuss the pros and cons of this approach for today’s organizations.

One-and-a-half-page word document. (Apx 200 words per questions). 12 fonts, Times New Roman. APA citations. Double spaced. Use the prompts as subheadings for the paper.