To organize means to determine which activities are necessary for a specific purpose and to encourage them in groups assigned to individuals. An organization is a complex social system, which brings together many individuals for a given purpose. It is also a personnel arrangement intended to facilitate the achievement of a given objective through the distribution of functions and responsibilities. To better understand the definition of organization, consider the definition developed by Max Weber. Like any other field of study and like organizations themselves, organizational analysis has a tradition. This tradition draws heavily on Max Weber, known for his analysis of bureaucracy and authority, topics which will be discussed later. Weber was also concerned with more general definitions of organization. In his definition, he first distinguishes the “corporate group” from other forms of social organization (Weber, 1947). The corporate group implies "a social relationship with rules either closed or limited to the admission of outsiders...insofar as its order is enforced by the action of specific individuals of whom it is a regular function, of a leader or “head” and generally also administrative staff. "This aspect of the definition contains a number of elements that require further discussion, as they are fundamental to most other similar definitions. Organization primarily involves social relationships. That is, individuals interact at the within the organization However, as the reference to closed or limited boundaries suggests, these individuals are not simply in random contact. The organization (corporate group) includes certain parts of the population and ex... .. middle of paper ......principles, developing overly rational and mechanistic models of organization The Type 2 theorist represented, to a large extent, a counterpoint to the rational-mechanistic view The current stage of. organization theory more fully reflects the contribution of Type 3. Proponents of contingency have taken ideas provided by previous theorists and reframed them within a situational context. However, one should not conclude that the conclusions of early management thinkers would be useless in the future. For example, many of the concepts developed by early classical writers still have value today; the study of the management task in terms of functions performed and the use of management principles as guides to action are still very present and should remain useful. Few of those who succeed will be able to escape at least part of their impact.