Types of organizations and their brief characteristics

The organization arose with the advent of mankind. From birth and death, a person is an integral part of an organization. It can be a family, a clan community, a state, a school, etc.

One definition of "organization" is the pooling of certain resources to achieve the goal. The resource of organizations created by people is a person. Today, this term is also understood as the unification of people led by a leader (elected, self-proclaimed or appointed), called upon to carry out any plans.

Classify the concept of trying for a long time, but a single typology still does not exist. Allocate the types of organizations in terms of goals, available resources, activities associated with achieving the objectives pursued, quantitative composition and behavioral features.

Previously, there were organizations related to the organization of human activities to achieve the goal. From this position, historians identify community, corporate, and associative types of organizations.

As the formation of human society evolved, changed its form, structure, content, old ones collapsed and new associations of people emerged.

For today, formal and informal types of organizations are distinguished. Informal consider the voluntary, spontaneously formed unity of people who regularly enter into relations within the organization. They are called upon to carry out mainly the psychological and social needs of the members of the group.

Formal organizations are created deliberately, they are necessary to achieve the set goals. They are divided into commercial and non-commercial.

A non-profit organization is an organization whose ultimate goal is not profit or its distribution among group members. They are created either for intangible needs (spiritual, for example) or for the purpose of supporting cultural, social, etc. Needs, the achievement of scientific or other purposes, the resolution of disputes or the protection of citizens. Some political scientists believe that non-profit organizations better cope with social functions than even government bodies.

The structure of non-profit organizations includes, for example, Cossack societies, national parks, condominiums, legal associations, ethnic communities

Public organizations based on voluntary association are often referred to as the "third sector" (as opposed to public and state). The law "On Public Associations" explains that a public organization is an association created by the good will of citizens to achieve their goals. Members of such an association can be individuals, legal institutions. It is the fixed membership that distinguishes all types of organizations (social) from the social movement. In it, membership is not formal. Public organizations have a permanent governing body, which is accountable to the supreme body: a congress, a conference or a general meeting.

Commercial types of organizations set themselves the goal of accumulating profits as a result of the sale of goods or the provision of services. These are LLCs, JSCs, cooperatives, etc.

By the way the organizations function, they can be productive or non-productive.

If we consider organizations from the point of view of the ownership of capital, we can single out national, foreign, mixed, multinational enterprises.

In addition, types of organizations are classified according to organizational and legal characteristics, resources, target characteristics, territory, structure and other characteristics.

It is possible to single out governmental organizations, state, private, etc. into separate groups.