Organizations as Brains

Running head : ABOUT ORGANIZATIONS

The Brainy Thing about Organizations

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The Brainy Thing about Organizations

The brain is actually the most amusing part of a human body . It is a portion of the central nervous system which acts as a control center for movement , and virtually all activities that makes a man alive (Toga 2006 . It is also the storage area of knowledge that a man gains throughout his lifetime . This knowledge is then passed around throughout the organism for

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Much like the brain , an organization functions in the same way . The different individual parts of the whole generate and use information and knowledge to make the organization alive . However , unlike the brain 's knowledge where all knowledge can be used individually by all other parts , organizational knowledge sometimes is not available to all . In organizations , there are individual portions of knowledge that are best utilized by looking at it in a whole way . This means that , the individual knowledge that the members of an organization possess is best used by uniting all knowledge into a single knowledge that consists of these parts . If one is missing , then the organization cannot take off For this very reason , it is important that the one who manages the organization manages the individual members differently . The organization may be managed in a way that everyone will be responsible On the other hand , each member is managed by the personality or characteristics that he has . Thus , the head of the organization faces the challenge that he should know everyone in the organization personally . Furthermore , he should also be an expert of the organization 's goals and objectives . By doing so , balance between the differences of personalities is compromised with that of the organization 's effectiveness

The brain is a good metaphor for organizations . It speaks of how the organization should work . Nevertheless , this metaphor has its own limitations . It can only be used to illustrate the way an organization should work , that is the parts should work as a whole . When it comes to the way knowledge is shared and utilized , the metaphor is inadequate

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Toga , A .W (2006 . Brain . Microsoft Encarta 2007 [CD] . Redmond , WA Microsoft Corporation , 2006...