The Types of Information in the Dual Structure of an Organization

Abstract

We can identify two aspects of business organizations: organizations as "social functional device" and organization as "interaction space". The first aspect represents the organizational structure designed to ensure that members of the organization as a whole work efficiently for realizing the given objectives of the business organization. The second aspect means the space where the members of the organization as individuals interact with each other in the organization. In this paper, the dual structure composed of these two aspects is shown while using the concept "organizational behavior rule" as the criteria of behavior and the relationship between the whole and the elements is explored. The difference between the above mentioned two aspects of an organization is based on the difference between the types of information in the two aspects. Such discussion contributes to development of systems theory on complex systems found in neo-industrial age.