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Org. Theory Intro
Org. Theory Intro
ORGANIZATION - DEFINED
Organization can be defined as a collective social unit deliberately created by a group of people to accomplish specific goals and purposes within loosely delineated boundary on continuing basis with enabling factors for sustained growth.
TYPES OF ORGANIZATION
The types of Organization can be based on a number of factors such as function, purpose, primary beneficiary and the like
Type of organization 1. Mutual benefit association 2. Business organization 3. Service organization 4. Commonwealth organization Primary beneficiary 1. Members 2. Owners 3. Clients 4. Public at large
NTPC Vision, Mission, Core Values and Corporate Social Responsibility Vision To be the worlds largest and best power producer, powering Indias growth. Mission Develop and provide reliable power, related products and services at competitive prices, integrating multiple energy sources with innovative and eco-friendly technologies and contribute to society.
B E C O M M I T T E D
Business Ethics Environmentally & Economically Sustainable Customer Focus Organisational & Professional Pride Mutual Respect & Trust Motivating Self & others Innovation & Speed Total Quality for Excellence Transparent & Respected Organisation Enterprising Devoted
Corporate Citizenship NTPC is fully committed to achieving high standards of corporate governance and developing mutual trust via expansive CSR initiatives.
Rehabilitation & Resettlement NTPC has been a committed and socially responsible corporate citizen since its inception and formulated specific guidelines for the welfare of Project Empowering People NTPC has marked 15-20% of its CSR-CD budget for education to individual stations ITI Adoption Students of wiremen trade concentrating on practical at ITI Olpad Adopted by NTPC
Scholarship programme:
35 SCHOLARSHIPS FOR SCHEDULED CASTE/ SCHEDULED TRIBE/ PHYSICALLY CHALLENGED ENGINEERING STUDENTS (SCHEME XXIII)
Sustainable Development Policy We at NTPC Limited, commit ourselves to generate and provide reliable
3. Max Weber and bureaucracy: He called this ideal structure bureaucracy. It was characterized by division of labor, a clear authority hierarchy, formal selection procedures, detailed rules and regulations, and impersonal relationships.
2. Chester Barnard and Cooperative Systems: Merging the ideas of Taylor, Fayol, and Weber with the results from the Hawthorne studies led to the conclusion that organizations are cooperative systems. so manager need to organize around the requirements of the tasks to be done and the needs of the people who will do them.
Type 3 Theorists
Herbert Simon and Principles Backlash:
He argued that organization theory needed to go beyond superficial and oversimplified principles to a study of the conditions under which competing principles were applicable.
Type 4 Theorists
March and Simon's Cognitive Limits to rationality They argued that most decision makers selected satisfactory alternatives-alternatives that were good enough.
Pfeffers organizations as Political Arenas Jeffrey Pfeffer has built on March and Simons work to create a model of organization theory that encompasses power coalitions, inherent conflict over goals and organizational design decisions that favor the self-interest of those in power.
The Changing Face of organizational Theory