Organizations: concept, types

Organizations: Basic Concepts
Organization
social units (or human groupings) deliberately constructed and reconstructed to seek specific goals.
collectivities that have been established for the pursuit of relatively specific objectives on a more or less continuous basis.

Organizations
The basement of the management world
The reason of ‘management’ existing
Organizations
Informal
Formal
Spontaneously appearing group of people, frequently interacting with each other
Organization, which has own rights as the legal and physical entities ; with goals and legal documents. Their functioning is written in the normative documents and agreements, showing all the rights and liabilities of each participant.

Characteristics of the formal organizations
conscious deliberate human efforts to establish and operate them for the accomplishment of pre-determined goals.
the structured relations among its members.
their members are selected on the basis of their individual qualifications.
money and other material resources to be used by the organization are determined with reference to its goals.

Formal Organizations
Commercial Organizations
Non-commercial or non profit Organizations
Organizations aimed to get a profit systematically by:
Selling goods and services;
Using/selling the property
Organizations, the main goal of which is not gaining the profit. Consequently there is no distribution of profit between participants

Classification of the organizations by organizational and legal forms
Commercial organizations:
economic associations and societies
economic associations
full association
general partnership
joint-stock company
open joint stock company
closed joint stock company
limited liability company
company with additional liability
Production cooperative
State and municipal enterprises
On the right of economic maintaining
On the right of operational management
Non-profit organizations
Consumer cooperative (union, society)
Funds
Public and religious organizations (associations)
Establishments
Associations of legal entities (associations and unions)
Коммерческие организации:
хозяйственные товарищества и общества
хозяйственные товарищества
полное товарищество
товарищество на вере
акционерное общество
открытое АО
закрытое АО
общество с ограниченной ответственностью
общество с дополнительной ответственностью
Производственный кооператив (артель)
Государственные и муниципальные предприятия
На праве хозяйственного ведения
На праве оперативного управления
Некоммерческие организации
Потребительский кооператив (союз, общество)
Фонды
Общественные и религиозные организации (объединения)
Учреждения
Объединения юридических лиц (ассоциации и союзы)