One aspect both of the above slightly different definitions shares is that organizations
are defined as collectivities of people whose activities are consciously designed,coordinated and directed by their members in order to pursue explicit purposes and attain particular common objectives or goals. If our organizations and the process
of organizing are about goal attainment, it could follow that organization theory
is about conceptualizing, explaining and ultimately guiding action regarding the different ways in which people act in unison together to achieve particular, desirable
shared ends or ‘common’ organizational goals.