The following basic characteristics of organization should be kept in mind in any discussion of organization planning

Organization is a planning process. It is concerned with setting up, developing and maintaining a structure or pattern of working relationships of the people within an enterprise. It is carried on continuously as changes in events, personalities and environment require. Thus organization is dynamic. However, the resulting structure is static— i.e., it reflects the organization only as of a given moment of time. | Organization is the determination and assignment of duties to people so as to obtain the advantages of fixing responsibility and specialization through subdivision of work. | Organization is a plan for integrating or coordinating most effectively the activities of each part of the enterprise so that proper relationships are established and maintained among the different work units and so that the total effort of all people in the enterprise will help accomplish its objectives. | Organization is a means to an end. Good organization should be one of the tools of accomplishing the company's objectives, but it should not become an objective in itself. | p. 14