“A system is a set of elements that are orderly and interrelated to make a function whole.” (Kirst-Ashman, 2010). On the other hand, an organization is generally defined as "... a set of stable social relations deliberately crested, with the explicit intention of continuously accomplishing some specific goals or purposes." Because an organization is made up of goal-oriented interacting human beings, it is a social system. (Hanson, 1969). The social system under analysis is Grambling State University’s very own Orchesis Dance Company.
History
The Orchesis Dance Company was first instituted in 1948 by Catherine Jones Williams, under the Physical Education Department in which she was a physical education teacher at the men’s gymnasium. In the