A natural design to human organizational existence

This BLOG is about asking “Why Organization Ontologics”. I have decided that the most fundamental answer is: There is a natural design to human organizational existence.

Organizations emerge from the culture of humanity to provide offerings that express the enthusiasm that exists for meeting targeted needs of targeted beneficiaries. Typically there are many stakeholders (people, groups, and other entities) that have a vested interest in the success of the organization.

Organizations…

• are formed by the will of, consist of, and provide for the sake of people;
• derive life from the people of the organization, their relationships, and their commitments to the health of the organization;
• derive authority from owners and governing authorities;
• have unique identities yet the same essential natural design;
• are composed of living systems that support the motivations of becoming, being, doing, relating, and sustaining through the intentional participation of people in the system disciplines of maturation, simulation, realization, conversation, and maintenance

People…

• form, support, and benefit from organizations
• are the life force of organizations; the dictionary defines Life as: A source of vitality; an animating force; energy or enthusiasm; the sum total of human existence, relationships, and activities. Life is about Being, Doing, Relating, sustaining, and becoming with enthusiasm
• deposit or withdraw life
• who bring enthusiasm for serving others, deposit life into the organization
• who participate only to serve themselves, withdraw life from the organization
• shoulder the burden of keeping the organization alive and healthy

Human beings are endowed with an awareness of the requirements of organizational existence and have the intrinsic ability to shoulder the responsibility for the autonomic functions of the organization. The life and health of an organization thrive or suffer with the level of intentionality with which the people perform the work of organization.

Sources of Authority

• God Given Individual Freedom

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.” (The Declaration of Independence)

• Cultural Acceptance or Tolerance

Informal and implied authority which is derived from the acceptance by the people who benefit from the offerings of an organization. Cultural tolerance doesn’t contribute authority directly; however, it leaves room for an organization to exist.

• Governments (Federal, State, County, Local, Family)

“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common Defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.” (The Constitution of the United States of America)

Metaphorical Understanding

An organization being is a form of human existence and like a human being exists in a natural design. Human autonomics is part of the natural design of human existence and is responsible for the functions of the human life cycle, life, and health that the person can take for granted, i.e., the body matures, the respiratory system breaths and the circulatory system pumps blood, and the immune system protects the body from foreign substances.

Organization Ontologics is the portion of organization existence responsible for the autonomics of the organization’s life cycle, life, and health.

To understand the value of knowing Organization Ontologics, think of how top athletes maximize their performance by learning to cooperate with the natural design of their human existence. In the same way organizations can achieve their highest levels of performance by cooperating with the natural design of their organization existence

Organization Natural Design

The natural design of organization existence fundamentally consists of beings, assets, and supplies that are organized into work fractals that are organized into holons that are organized into holarchies that are interconnected by holnets, that form organization beings and holagents that are organized into valuenets.

• Beings are people or organizations that are assigned to take responsibility for the work of producing work products.
• Assets are reusable things that shoulder responsibility for portions of the work of producing work products.
• Supplies are consumable things that are required by the beings, assets, and work products.
• Work Products are the result of a work fractal and take the form of qualified beings, qualified assets, or qualified supplies.
• Work Fractals perform the work of an organization, they consist of qualified beings respecting constraints filling roles performing activities using qualified assets and consuming qualified supplies for the production of work products (internal or external).
• Holons are sets of work fractals responsible for producing internal or external work products.
• Holarchies are hierarchical dependency structures of holons and associated work products.
• Holnets are the connecting structures that facilitate the exchange of internal offerings within the boundaries of the organization being.
• Holagents are organization beings that are formed to facilitate the exchange of offerings between organization beings.
• Valuenets are the set of organization beings and their interdependent relationships (holagents) that meet the needs of human beings and organization beings.

Socio-Economic-Ecosystem

• Socio-: Social interaction is based on the application of enthusiasm for the meeting of the fundamental needs of human beings and organization beings.
• Economic: The exchange of value that occurs in the expression of enthusiasm for the meeting of human and organization needs and the admission of those needs, forms the basis of all economies.
• Ecosystem: The many interdependent relationships of a community of people and organizations and their environments functioning as an ecological unit.
• Valuenet: The total of all socio-economic-ecosystems form the humanity valuenet. Each socio-economic-ecosystem is derived from a fundamental need and is referred to as [fundamental need] valuenet, i.e., Housing Valuenet, Entertainment Valuenet. Preferences for the meeting of needs form [preference] valuenets, i.e., Vacation Homes Valuenet, Video Games Valuenet.