ABSTRACT
Our industrialized society has developed a form of social unit not new in kind but new in the pervasiveness of its use. Organizations are so plentiful that a large proportion of the population can claim membership in a multitude of them – organizations in which they work, organizations in which they pray, and organizations in which they play. Furthermore, generally these organizations have been getting larger and larger in recent decades. In addition, it is the larger organizations that have tended to survive over time [10]. It is also increased organization size that has been related to some of the ills of our industrial society, such as impersonality, specialization and fragmentation of jobs, and alienation of lower-level members of the organization. However, it should be noted that some of our most effective organizations are large.
