Meaning Of Organizational In English - Cambridge Dictionary

Meaning of organizational in English organizationaladjective [ before noun ] (UK usually organisational) uk /ˌɔː.ɡən.aɪˈzeɪ.ʃən.əl/ us /ˌɔːr.ɡən.əˈzeɪ.ʃən.əl/

organizational adjective [before noun] (RELATING TO PLANNING)

Add to word list Add to word list relating to the planning of an activity or event: She is looking for a personal assistant with good organizational skills.

• A lot of what he does is organizational; he handles all the meetings.
• The most notable qualities of their staging of the Olympic Games were the politeness of the people and their superb organizational ability.

Managing and organizing

• admin
• administer
• administration
• anti-bureaucracy
• bronze command
• get up phrasal verb
• get your act together idiom
• gold command
• have something in hand idiom
• have/get your shit together idiom
• mobilize
• mount
• party planner
• party planning
• project-manage
• rationalization
• rationalize
• recentralization
• vice-presidential
• wieldy

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organizational adjective [before noun] (RELATING TO GROUP)

relating to an organization: We think this is a good way of reaching our organizational goals.

• The group is conscious of its own organizational interests but guided as well by standards regarding the rights of its members and workers.
• Research suggests that low levels of organizational commitment have negative consequences for salespeople.
• The group is to hold its regular organizational meeting this week.

Organizations, Societies & clubs

• academy
• action committee
• Assn
• Assoc.
• brotherhood
• co-op
• collegium
• fellowship
• housing association
• insignia
• membership
• organization
• royal commission
• search committee
• secret society
• secretary
• semi-public
• sister
• sister company
• trust

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Enterprises

organizational adjective [before noun] (RELATING TO SYSTEM)

relating to the way the different parts of something are combined or work together: He created an organizational chart clarifying the workflow. See organization

• He created an effective organizational framework with four independent facets ("categories") comprised of 10 nodes ("subcategories").
• The country does not now have the manpower or organizational structure to close those gaps.
• Among the sample of unions, 25 percent had six or more organizational levels.
• The idea behind student-based allocation is that the money goes out based on the needs of students, not on the organizational structure that is in place.

Classifying and creating order

• alphabetize
• anti-hierarchical
• arrange
• arrangement
• arranger
• describe
• macrocosm
• microcosmic
• microcosmically
• miscatalogue
• misclassification
• misclassify
• shake someone down phrasal verb
• short-list
• shortlist
• sort
• sort something out phrasal verb
• unsorted
• unstratified
• unstructured

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organizational | American Dictionary

organizationaladjective [ not gradable ] us /ˌɔr·ɡə·nəˈzeɪ·ʃə·nəl/

organizational adjective [not gradable] (ABLE TO PLAN)

Add to word list Add to word list relating to the ability to plan things carefully and keep things neat: Her networking and organizational skills came in handy for a charity boxing event she hosted.

organizational adjective [not gradable] (HAVING A SYSTEM)

relating to a particular system or arrangement: The White House Office of Management and Budget issued a revised organizational chart. (Definition of organizational from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

organizational | Business English

organizationaladjective (UK also organisational) uk /ˌɔːɡənaɪˈzeɪʃənəl/ us /ɔːrɡənəˈzeɪʃənəl/ Add to word list Add to word list relating to an organization, or to organizing something: The changes will affect people at all organizational levels. The job needs someone with excellent organizational skills. (Definition of organizational from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of organizational

organizational In this article we present a survey of the major organizational paradigms used in multi-agent systems. From the Cambridge English Corpus The attempts by nationalist activists to use soccer as an organizational and symbolic platform again prove the political potential of soccer. From the Cambridge English Corpus Narratives are thus organizational schemes in terms of which historians describe and thereby explain and interpret the past. From the Cambridge English Corpus This implies that there are strong pressures toward the consolidation of a vertical organizational structure where the best performers cluster at the top. From the Cambridge English Corpus The analysis of the reciprocal relationships between functions makes explicit alignment mechanisms that influence organizational performance and affect its equilibrium. From the Cambridge English Corpus The second source relates to the co-ordinating and organizational dimensions of the factory system, as opposed to craft manufacture. From the Cambridge English Corpus Investing in personal, professional and organizational development in this way is difficult. From the Cambridge English Corpus However, pension fund governance has a much broader scope and includes overall management, organizational design and decision-making processes. From the Cambridge English Corpus Organizational indicators are included in five domains: records and information about patients, patient communication, education and training, medicines management, and practice management. From the Cambridge English Corpus When machine and organizational systems became the tools of dominion, a curious recoding of the entrepreneurial "man of force" ideal took shape. From the Cambridge English Corpus They also relied less on organizational strategies during encoding. From the Cambridge English Corpus Such incentives are stronger when the cost of expressing ideas is lowered by mechanisms such as voting systems or organizational structures. From the Cambridge English Corpus Either the purple bacteria have acquired the photosynthesis genes recently by lateral gene transfer or selective pressure forced various species to retain these organizational patterns. From the Cambridge English Corpus Often these were team building exercises used to allow the multi-professional team to focus on an aspect of organizational life. From the Cambridge English Corpus These taxes do require an organizational capacity to collect information and penetrate society, but to a lesser extent than income and land taxes. From the Cambridge English Corpus See all examples of organizational These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. What is the pronunciation of organizational?

Translations of organizational

in Chinese (Traditional) 組織的，安排的，籌備的, 組織的, （組織等）結構的… See more in Chinese (Simplified) 组织的，安排的，筹备的, 组织的, （组织等）结构的… See more in Spanish organizacional… See more in Portuguese organizacional… See more Need a translator?

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• organizational conflict
• organizational culture
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    • organizational (RELATING TO PLANNING)
    • organizational (RELATING TO GROUP)
    • organizational (RELATING TO SYSTEM)
• American   
  • Adjective 
    • organizational (ABLE TO PLAN)
    • organizational (HAVING A SYSTEM)
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