James D. Mooney: Organization

James D. Mooney was American businessman. Explore interesting quotes on organization.
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“The common impression regards this scale or chain merely as a "type" of organization, characteristic only of the vaster institutions of government, army, church and industry. This impression is erroneous. It is likewise misleading, for it seems to imply that the scalar chain in organization lacks universality. These great organizations differ from others only in that the chain is longer. The truth is that wherever we find an organization even of two people, related as superior and subordinate, we have the scalar principled.”

James D. Mooney

Source: The Principles of Organization, 1947, p. 14-15

“As coordination is the all-inclusive principle of organization, it must have its own principle and foundation in Authority, or the supreme coordinating power. Always, in every form of organization, this supreme coordinating authority must rest somewhere, else there would be no directive for any truly coordinated effort. The term authority as here used need imply nothing of autocracy.”

James D. Mooney

Source: Onward Industry!, 1931, p. 20

“The fact that functions may not be separated in organization does not in any way way destroy their identity as functions… The ideal of organized efficiency is not the complete segregation but the integrated correlation |of the three primary functions… The organizer must identify these functional principles, as they appear in every job, and make them the basis of his correlation… his duty is to correlate functions as such… The duty of the manager is to correlate who performs these functions… Management however represents the scalar principle… perpendicular correlations… true horizontal correlation requires other contact… The dissemination of understanding… of common purpose, of the relation of individuals to that purpose & to each other.”

James D. Mooney

Source: Onward Industry!, 1931, p. 50-59, as cited in Lyndall Urwick (1937;50)

“Organization is the form of every human association for the attainment of a common purpose.”

James D. Mooney

Source: The Principles of Organization, 1947, p. 10

“When a member of an organization is placed in a position with duties ill defined in their relation to other duties what happens? Naturally he attempts to make his own interpretation of those duties and, where he can, to impose this view on those about him. In this process he encounters others in similar cases, with friction and lack of coordination as the inevitable result.”

James D. Mooney

Source: The Principles of Organization, 1947, p. 29-30

“The supreme coordinating authority must rest somewhere and in some form in every organization, else there could be no such thing as organized.”

James D. Mooney

Source: Onward Industry!, 1931, p. 20

“In the practical sense the word principle may be applied to any underlying cause of more or less correlated facts in any particular field of investigation. The word principles, as applied to organization, is used by us strictly in the latter meaning.”

James D. Mooney

Source: Onward Industry!, 1931, p. 17

“In every organization there must be some function that decides or determines the objective and the procedure necessary to its attainment… may be called the determinative… in secular government always known as the legislative.”

James D. Mooney

Source: Onward Industry!, 1931, p. 47, as cited in Lyndall Urwick (1937;50)