organization

person or group of people that has its own functions with responsibilities, authorities and relationships to achieve its objectives

Note 1 to entry: Groupings or subdivisions of organizations may also be considered as organizations where there is need to identify them in this way for purposes of information interchange.

Note 2 to entry: In this International Standard, this definition applies to any kind of organizations, whatever their legal status.

[SOURCE: [SOURCE: ISO 9000:2015, 3.2.1, modified — Notes 1 and 2 to entry were removed and new notes to entry have been added.]]

Table 1. Specializations / Generalizations of **organization**
Specialization of			Generalization of
mental object

Table 2. Associations of **organization**
Association from		Association name		Association to
0..1	organization	is		1..*	care actor

organizationUML Representation — Figure 1. organization (UML Representation)