The document discusses the role of individuals in organizations. It states that individuals must be induced or motivated to participate in organizations. Their participation is driven by desires for remuneration, prestige, or using existing skills. The degree to which individuals identify with an organization depends on how well it satisfies their needs and how it is perceived. An organization achieves equilibrium when it can maintain the continued contributions of its members and others through various inducements.

1. Individuals in Organization
Dr. G C Mohanta, BE, MSc(Engg), MBA, PhD(Mgt)
Professor

2. Individuals in Organization
 The individuals play an important role in the
functioning of the organization.
 The members of an organization must be induced,
coerced or forced to participate in it.
 People participate in the organizations when they
are going to gain something out of them.
 The desire for remuneration in cash or kind,
prestige or to show skills already acquired,
represent some of the motives of the people in
participating in organizations.

3. Individuals in Organization (Contd.)
 People tend to identify themselves with the
organization in which they participate.
 There is a close affinity between people’s
motives on one hand & their identification
with the organization on the other.
 The degree of their identification with the
organization depends on the nature and
intensity of the motives for participating in
them.

4. Individuals in Organization (Contd.)
The individual’s identification with the organization
is stronger if:
 a number of individual needs are satisfied in it,
 the organization goals are perceived as shared,
 the prestige of the organization is perceived to be the
greater,
 there is greater frequency of interaction in the
organization and
 there is less competition within the organization.

5. Individuals in Organization (Contd.)
 The individual motives play an important role in the
fulfilment of organization goals.
 People cannot work in organization without any
motives, purposes or thinking.
 They do not work in an automatically or mechanically
or in impulsive manner.
 The success of an organization depends not only on
the proper coordination and cooperation of its
members but also on the cooperation of others.
 The others must also be made to contribute to the
smooth functioning of the organization.

6. Individuals in Organization (Contd.)
 An organization is said to have attained
equilibrium when it is able to maintain the
continued contribution of all its participants –
members and others by providing them various
kinds of inducements to work for its success.
 Equilibrium may be achieved at various levels.
 It may change over time.
 The scope of the organization’s activities may
remain constant or may grow or diminish at
another level.

7. Individuals in Organization (Contd.)
 Individuals make up the society called the company,
corporation.
 These individuals will act alone and in groups.
 There can also be interaction between just two
people, between one person and a group, and
between two groups.
 How these individuals and groups interact will
determine organizational culture and as a result will
behave in a specific manner based on the
organization itself, i.e., how the goals, purpose, etc.
of the entity are supposed to operate.