According to Chester I. Barnard's classic definition, an organization is a
A) formal system of task and reporting relationships that coordinate and motivate employees.
B) means to increase collaboration and cooperation among groups of people.
C) set of shared, taken-for-granted implicit assumptions that a group holds.
D) system of consciously coordinated activities or forces of two or more people.
E) type of analytical tool used for planning.

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According to Chester I. Barnard's classic definition, an organization is a system of consciously coordinated activities or forces of two or more people. By this wording, a crew of two coordinating their activities to operate a commercial tuna fishing boat is just as much an organization as tuna companies Bumble Bee and StarKist with their thousands of employees.