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Rational, Natural, and Open Systems
Liberty University
BUSI 735: Understanding the Organization
Dr. Felicia Olagbemi
May 21, 2020
Organizations developed in the seventeenth through eighteenth centuries in the United States and
Europe (Davis & Scott, 2007). Organizations present the diversity of fundamental social
methods, such as socialization, communication, ranking, the formation of standards, the exercise
of power, and goal setting and attainment (Davis & Scott, 2007). Organizational theory has been
generated due to the methodical research of companies. It presents a way to think about
organizations and managing organizations (Kandhro, 2019). Organization study is essential to
achieving collective goals (Kandhro, 2019). Organization theory explains the organizational
formation, achievement, planning, design, culture, politics, endurance and focuses on
organizations’ work, why they are structured, and the internal and external interaction (Davis &
Scott, 2007). The organizations are analyzed for various reasons from different perspectives.
(Davis & Scott, 2007). The three key theoretical perspectives of businesses are rational, natural,
and open systems. Recognizing the different perspectives is necessary because each perspective
makes solid points about organizations’ image (Davis & Scott, 2007).
According to the authors of Organization and Organizing states that rational perspective
companies are instruments intended to achieve detailed goals. The organizations’ behavior and
the members are seen as activities conducted by useful and coordinated representatives (Davis &
Scott, 2007). The key characteristics of a rational perspective are goal specification, formal
structure, and efficiency and effectiveness (Kandhro, 2019). From a rational perspective, goals
are interpreted to meet the ends. The goals are oriented to decisions on how the structure of the
company is created (Kandhro, 2019). Goals are created to reach the desired task, what workers to
be hired, how to use and distribute resources amid the workers (Kandhro, 2019). The formal
structure produces behavior in organizations. It is one of the most important factors in a rational

perspective because the builds an evident system of relationship between the roles directs the
behavior (Kandhro, 2019). The characters and associates in the formal structure are designated
individually (Kandhro, 2019). The literature utilized suggests this picture of reasonable
computation; terms, for example, data, information, proficiency, improvement, execution, and
configuration happen as often as possible. There are different terms as well that incorporates
authority, control, coordination, rules directives (Davis & Scott, 2007). They suggest the
cognitive and motivational barriers of individuals. The restrictions are forced against their
choices and behavior within companies. Some examiners believe the organizations refer to