Organization as a Community: Prospects in Post-Industrialism

The article provides a sociophilosophical analysis of the development of a modern organization as a community. The aim of the article is to identify the prospects for the development of the community as a form of social life in the era of post-industrialism. Research methods used in the study were: theoretical analysis of approaches to the study of the formation of local communities and network social entities; historical and philosophical analysis of the ideas of the formation of social communities; method of social and philosophical forecasting. The materials for the analysis were the theories and approaches in the new social philosophy and neoclassical theory of organizations. The study of organizations in the new social philosophy is based on their consideration as an assembly. Assembly means the interpenetration of communities as actors (M. Delanda and P. Bourdieu). Local and network communities are created at the intersection of economic, political, cultural networks (J. Deleuze). The idea of transforming organizations into communities is most vividly represented in the neoclassical theory of organizations (A.P. Sloan, M. Hammer, P.F. Drucker, and others). G. Mintzberg uses the concept of "community feeling"; the term is an analogue of collective will, solidarity, which strengthen social relations. B. Manvil predicts growth in the productivity of organizations developing as network communities. In the new millennium, the conceptual apparatus of social sciences is being updated in the field of the study of communities as forms of social life. Newly introduced concepts (strategy of "community impact", "value added communities ", communityship) have a pronounced "resource" approach, that is, they reflect both the economic and social effects of the development of organizations as communities. The separation of these processes into stages is important for a social and philosophical understanding of the problems of the evolution of organizations into communities. This allows viewing the degree of approximation of a post-industrial society to a self-organized community (F. Laloux, K. Fuhs). In Laloux, a similar evolution is expressed through the creation of a color scale: the movement from orange to green and further to turquoise symbolizes progress in the transformation of organizations into communities. Based on the analysis carried out, the author concluded that the value component dominates in building local communities, in transforming organizations. Communities based on common spiritual values are the most promising way for new forms of social life to function. Such communities can serve as a micromodel of future societies based on trust and solidarity. Reducing the distance between organizations as rigid structures, on the one hand, and communities as flexible social practices, on the other, in the period of post-industrialism is inevitable. This is due to the increasing nonlinearity of social processes and social uncertainty that require synergy and solidarity of community members. In general, these processes will contribute to the strengthening of civil society, the main condition and prerequisite of which is the development of community structures.

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