TALCOTT PERSON SCHEME - Management Duniya

TALCOTT PERSON SCHEME

1. TALCOTT PERSON SCHEME: It is classified on the basis of function.
   

   Society has different types of functions each of them having different characteristics and requiring different efforts on the part of the individual performing these functions. In the organisational society most of these functions are performed by social institutions, main of which take organisational form. Four types of organisations based on functions exist in the society.

   
   

   Economic Organisation:

   
   

   Economic organisations are primarily those which are concerned with adding value as used by economists. Economic activities are those that help in earning livelihood. These can be classified as business & non business activities. Business activities have three activities have three basic characteristics, profit motive, risk- bearing and creation of utilities. Such business activities may be in the form of trading, commercial, industrial & other direct services.

   
   

   Political Organisation:

   
   

   Political organisations are concerned with changing or adopting circumstances to attain valued goals. They are concerned with increasing the capacity of society or some part of it, to accomplish desired ends. Eg. Such organisations are to be maintaining peace & stability in the society. The basic problem of such organisation is to collect resources from various sources & spend them judiciously. So that the functions assigned to them are performed efficiently.

   
   

   Integrative Organisations:

   
   

   Integrative organisations such as courts, Police departments, social agencies & so on. Contribute to the efficiency with which the society operates. They are organisations for social control & maintenance. Keep things operating in desired fashions and keep out distributing influences. They are different from political organisations in the sense that the latter contribute to the effectiveness in the society, while the former contribute efficiency to the society.

   
   

   Pattern Maintenance Operations:

   
   

   Pattern maintenance organisations, such as educational institutions, theatrical groups, research institutions, clubs, churches & other religious institutions etc, are concerned with the long term issues of society’s values, pattern and knowledge, culture etc, such organisations attempt at creating value systems, furthering knowledge & making suitable pattern of life.

   
   

   Source: Some various OB Books & Notes.

 

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By: Management Duniya