Organization

My post today may be boring for some...well, most. But this is something we're really concentrating on with our children. In today's hectic world, it seems extremely important to be organized. Now, some who know me might say I'm a little "over-the-top". I sometimes plan days, even months in advance. But it drives me crazy when people use the excuse of being "laid back" or "not worrying about things" as why they are so scattered in life. Personally, I call it lazy. In today's corporate world being organized is a top priority. If you're not on top of your game and able to multi-task, you pretty much fall behind and someone passes you by.

We have started teaching our nine year old daughter to wake-up with an alarm clock, make her bed fist thing, then brush her teeth - before she does anything else. At first, she would do this about 50% of the time. Now, it has become habit. She is so proud of herself and will even remind us each morning that she has already accomplished these tasks. As she gets older, we will incorporate more responsibility so eventually these will become habit and she will become very independent. We are slowly doing the same with our six year old son. With age comes responsibility - but also with age comes privileges.

I found the article below online and thought it was interesting. Would love to hear feedback from those that read our blog. Sometimes I think I'm TOO organized (or obsessed):), but on the other side of things, I find that some people are dependent on others to take care of them due to their lack of organization.

Organization in sociology
In sociology "organization" is understood as planned, coordinated and purposeful action of human beings to construct or compile a common tangible or intangible product. This action is usually framed by formal membership and form (institutional rules). Sociology distinguishes the term organization into planned formal and unplanned informal (i.e. spontaneously formed) organizations. Sociology analyzes organizations in the first line from an institutional perspective. In this sense, organization is a permanent arrangement of elements. These elements and their actions are determined by rules so that a certain task can be fulfilled through a system of coordinated division of labor.

An organization is defined by the elements that are part of it (who belongs to the organization and who does not?), its communication (which elements communicate and how do they communicate?), its autonomy (Max Weber termed autonomy in this context: Autocephaly)(which changes are executed autonomously by the organization or its elements?) and its rules of action compared to outside events (what causes an organization to act as a collective actor?).

By coordinated and planned cooperation of the elements, the organization is able to solve tasks that lie beyond the abilities of the single elements. The price paid by the elements is the limitation of the degrees of freedom of the elements. Advantages of organizations are enhancement (more of the same), addition (combination of different features), and extension. Disadvantages can be inertness (through co-ordination) and loss of interaction.

Organization in management and organizational studies
Main article: Organizational studies
Management is interested in organization mainly from an instrumental point of view. For a company organization is a means to an end to achieve its goals.

Thoughts?