ABSTRACT
Organizational membership is the foundation of the known-world experienced by everyone. The organization, as a human collective of variable size from a few individuals to hundreds of thousands of people provides its members a framework of values and behaviour that they can integrate into their lives. Membership in an organization is not the mere fact of being a member; it is also the individual's rapport with the reasons and norms behind why internal decisions are made, or not made, by decision-makers within the organization. Today, organizations are rational structures to which one delegate authority, based on expertise and status, and let them decide the appropriate use of strategic resources and the available means of production to achieve certain ends. It follows that the organization is also an aggregation of sub-entities, functions and roles that are each different: the departments or business units within a university, divisions within a large company, and the purchasing and logistics functions within a small enterprise.
