Space-time dimensional organization: The obsolescent man

Abstract

Scope and Method of Study: This investigation contemplates man and the human organization in the temporal setting. It strives to erect a framework for the consideration of features of the social and economic environment which structure the architecture of organizational development, which mutate organizational form and substance. It focuses upon man in structured society and contrasts the organizational reality with the organizational ideal, sketched in terms of human and social aspirations and potentialities. The implications for cultural evolution of the ascension of organization in contemporary society and the pervasiveness of the economic foundations for organized life receive due emphasis. The materials utilized in the formulation of this investigation were chiefly library periodicals and books concerning aspects of business organization.

Findings and Conclusions: The large corporate form appears increasingly to typify the organization of contemporary society. With the inertial tendency toward an authoritarian hierarchy of structured relationships in the conglomerate organization within which the significant countervailing forces are no longer those of the encompassing market structured economy, but what various loci of pluralistic power may be provided for in the system, the anonymous individual experiences increased vulnerability to the institutions he has erected. Awareness, however, by the individual of the implications of increased organization, elaboration, and complexity in modern living provides for man an instrument to effectuate social progress within the constructs of the contemporary organizational setting.