Gesellschaft und Gemeinschaft

• Ferdinand Tennys. (1855-1936) said that there are two kinds of organizations, right?

  • gemeinschaft (German: Gemeinschaft)
    • community organization, community society.
  • Social groups connected by human relations such as geographical, blood, [friendship
  • Member relationships and member comfort are a priority.
  • society (German: Gesellschaft)
    • functional unit organization, profit society.
  • A social group united for common purpose, achievement of [common good
  • Profit and achieving objectives come first.

• Tennys. himself considered the whole social change in the process of modernize, but the idea of this dichotomy was so useful that it was frequently cited by subsequent organization theory. Nowadays, organizations are not clearly categorized into one of these two types. The corporate organization is usually thought of as a Gesellschaft, but there are investments in Employee Satisfaction, creating a good work environment, Employee Club Activities, and so on. False dichotomy.

  • Large corporate families

  • teal organization classification, the Gesellschaft is an orange-type organization.

  • Is the Gemeinschaft a green type?

• Community - Wikipedia

• Two types.

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