User:Busiologist

Dictionary.com defines an organization as “organic structure; composition; a group of persons organized for some end or work; the administrative personnel or apparatus of a business, the functionaries of a political party along with the offices, committees, etc., that they fill [in addition to] an organism” (2009, www.dictionary.com). As I thought about the five activities David Garvin (2000) insists in a learning organization are skilled at in "Building a Learning Organization" and began to consider the underlying organisms of the organization (people), I recognized that the characteristics of an organization are similar to most organisms in that each are living “complex things” or systems with organizational terminology, connected by the chemical reactions between cells in biological organisms and individuals in educational, business and all remaining organizations (2009, www.dictionary.com). In doing so, I began to think of managing a business organization less in terms of administering resources and more in terms of researching or studying the social relationships that transfer knowledge and store intellectual capital generated by that knowledge, known as value. In essence I began to think of business through the lens of science and to consider myself a “busicologist!”

In my initial attempt to define busiology, I will define it as the study of business or more specifically the study of human activity and objectives designed for the purpose of supplying the market place with goods, services and ideas it deems valuable.

References:

Garvin, D. (1993, July). Building a learning organization. Harvard Business Review, 71(4), 78-91. Retrieved July 19, 2009, from Business Source Premier database.

Schön, D.A. (1987). Teaching artistry through reflection-in-action. Educating the reflective practitioner: Toward a new design for teaching and learning in the professions (pp. 22 - 40). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons, Inc. Retrieved July 7, 2009, from http://www.xanedu.com/

Organism. (2009). Online Thesaurus. Retrieved July 19, 2009, from http://thesaurus.reference.com/browse/organism