What is an organization, and how does a typical police agency constitute an organization? What are the key components of a basic organizational structure?

An organization is a group of like minds coming together to achieve a purpose

Explanation:

From the definition of an organization, there must be like minded people, and there must be a goal. The organization is now structured to achieved a particular purpose, it must have a head, the visionist and followers that share the same concept to achieve the same purpose.

Now relating to a police agency, a police agency is created for the purpose of policing, to keep law and other, that is the purpose of the organization(The agency), it must have like minded people to achieve this purpose of policing, without these set of people, they cant carry the act out.

The key components of a basic organization is the goal and vision, before we have the heads and the personnel, a basic organization has units divided to carry out different functions, that is why it called organization, yes there are people of the same mind set but different methods to achieve a goal, so the structure is created to accommodate these by creating units, heads and personnel. so a basic organization structure has units, heads and organization apart form the goals and aims.

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