Organization and Management

   By examining how organisations operate, how they make decisions, who leads them, what influence they have on society, on ourselves, i have learnt a lot about management and organization. 

   First question is about what organization is. Based on my knowledge, organization is a group of people work together to achieve a goal. However, i discover that organization has their own features that i haven't thought about. There are four elements — people, objective, management, structure — in an organization.

• People
• Meaning organization is made by people
• Objective
• Every organization has something to achieve
• Structure
• Different organizations have different management structure in order to increase the management effectiveness
• Management
• Resource need to be managed, direct and controlled by superior in order to enhance the maximum output.

   Even though organization have their own feature, it is also affected by external environment. For example, feedback and external environment will affect the inputs and the processes of an organization to turn them into output.

   After figuring out the influence of organization, i learnt basic structure of an organization. Organization can be divided into four catalogs which are top, middle management, Operational support, organization support. All of them play their own roles in an organization with overlapping the same tasks between them.

   Management is an separated but related topic, teacher used the research based on Henry Mintzberg to figure out the role of management. He divided it into three parts: interpersonal, informational, decisional.  With other referencing from Henri Fayol, i have a better understanding of managerial activities.

   The main idea of organization start me thinking about organization is indecomposable with management. Because i think of a company ' Valve' which is one of the biggest computing game producer in the world, with the strategy that manager will offer a fixed amount of money for their staff to manage and develop their own products without any monitor. Management started simultaneously, staffs will volunteer and coordinate with others to handle different part of project. In this case, it indicates a fact that organization need management to be operated. No matter it is good or bad management. Product Example of Valve:

Management Style of Valve: http://unnamedharald.hubpages.com/hub/Valve-the-Billion-Dollar-Company-With-No-Managers
   I believe that managers sometime are not necessary to monitor their staffs. Freedom allow staffs to create a epic and excellence creations instead of boring planned products. Creative is something that cannot being controlled and pushed by others, but it is a spontaneous idea which even changes the world. I hope all the organization may allow some space for staffs' creation instead of direct them everything. Human kind have their thinking and feeling otherwise we are just like robots.