Organizational Management

Describe a group you are a member of (online community, church, job, etc.) and how it is organized. Is there management? How is information distributed within the group?

“The value of hierarchies is obvious-it vastly simplifies communication among the employees. New employees need only one connection, to their boss, to get started. That’s much simpler than trying to have everyone talk to everyone.”
-Clay Shirky, Pg. 28-29

An organization that I am apart of is my sorority. It definitely has a hierarchical structure because there is a president, vice president, exec, and cabinet. The president works with exec to organize and plan things for the sorority while the vice president is in charge of cabinet. The rest of the girls attend meetings, give input, and go to events. We have weekly meetings where the president and exec give announcements and plans for upcoming events. At the meeting we sit in order of the year that we pledged, this way, the girls with more experience sit in the front.

The president of a sorority is like the manager of an organization. Members of a group may have different visions for the task at hand or different methods for approaching it. The point of a manager is to take a leadership role and organize a plan that not only is the best route for completing the task but also satisfies the group members or the company (sorority) as a whole. Without a manager, there simply would not be an organization. A manager is needed to tie the loose ends together, or else everything is going in different directions.