Basic Concepts in Organization
INTRODUCTION
No man is an island;
No man stands alone;
Each man’s joy is joy to me;
Each man’s grief is my own.[1]
Sociologists have been for decades emphasizing on man as a social animal, that he needs to associate himself with other men if he has to survive. Since the dawn of civilization and up to the present, history has been rife with examples on how men bind themselves together as a group in order to achieve a common purpose, usually on utilitarian and pragmatic terms of survival.
When one delves into the principles of compensation in Rational Psychology[2] or what is commonly known as the Philosophy of Man, one gets to understand the very basis of why man tends to associate, or form groups with his fellowman. There are talents or expertise that is possessed by other men which is lacking in a person. Thus, a man by force of necessity identifies himself with another man who has talents which he does not possess. In other words, a person’s act of associating with another man is to compensate for what he lacks himself, thus assuring his survival.
Plato said in Absolute Materialism[3] that all persons before they assume physical existence in this world are free-floating pure ideas. He calls this the “noumena.” By a freakish form of accident the noumena was broken into two and both fell down from the ideal world into earth and are born. Thus, from the time a person is born up to his death, he continually searches for his other half and in the process associating and joining himself with other men in the hope of finding that broken half, and when he finds it, he becomes whole again.
The Philippine Constitution of 1987 has recognized this basic need of man to join in a group when it states that:
The right of the people, including those employed in the public and private sectors, to form unions, associations, or societies for purposes not contrary to law shall not be abridged.[4]
According to Isagani Cruz (1995,
No man is an island;
No man stands alone;
Each man’s joy is joy to me;
Each man’s grief is my own.[1]
Sociologists have been for decades emphasizing on man as a social animal, that he needs to associate himself with other men if he has to survive. Since the dawn of civilization and up to the present, history has been rife with examples on how men bind themselves together as a group in order to achieve a common purpose, usually on utilitarian and pragmatic terms of survival.
When one delves into the principles of compensation in Rational Psychology[2] or what is commonly known as the Philosophy of Man, one gets to understand the very basis of why man tends to associate, or form groups with his fellowman. There are talents or expertise that is possessed by other men which is lacking in a person. Thus, a man by force of necessity identifies himself with another man who has talents which he does not possess. In other words, a person’s act of associating with another man is to compensate for what he lacks himself, thus assuring his survival.
Plato said in Absolute Materialism[3] that all persons before they assume physical existence in this world are free-floating pure ideas. He calls this the “noumena.” By a freakish form of accident the noumena was broken into two and both fell down from the ideal world into earth and are born. Thus, from the time a person is born up to his death, he continually searches for his other half and in the process associating and joining himself with other men in the hope of finding that broken half, and when he finds it, he becomes whole again.
The Philippine Constitution of 1987 has recognized this basic need of man to join in a group when it states that:
The right of the people, including those employed in the public and private sectors, to form unions, associations, or societies for purposes not contrary to law shall not be abridged.[4]
According to Isagani Cruz (1995,
References: [4] Section 8, Article III, 1987 Constitution.