Organizational Theories: A Comparative Analysis of Key perspectives of Rational, Natural and Open System Views of Organization

Abstract

In the modern society, it is difficult to imagine life without organization. Today, we are living in a global village and many organizations across the globe are involved in producing products and delivering services required by the societies. Organization has become vital to the very fabric of the modern society. Thus the organizations can be defined as platform where the people come together to perform their assigned to fulfill common goals. The organizations are established to bring people together to accomplish collective goals. Organizational theories have been developed as a result of systematic study of organizations. It has general application to all type of organizations. It provides a way of thinking about organizations and way of managing organizations. Organization theory deals primarily with organization level phenomenon such as organizational change and growth, effective planning, design, development, politics, culture and structure. Organizations are important part of the study and considered vital instruments for accomplishing collective goals in modern societies In order to understand as to how to structure and designed the organization to accomplish collective goals, it is very important to study the various perspectives on organization. Richard Scott in his book has described three perspectives on organization i.e rational system, natural system, and open systems perspectives. The research study has discussed the key perspectives and presented a comparative analysis of these three perspectives on organization and concludes with the applications of these perspectives in current scenario of organizations.

Keywords: Organizational Theory, Natural System Perspective, Rational System Perspective, Open System Perspective