“Organizational” or “Organisational”—What's the difference?

Usage by country

Where each spelling is used

Of the 12 countries below, 8 prefer “organizational” and 4 prefer “organisational”. Usage levels are out of 100; the more common spelling in each country is in bold.

Usage level out of 100 (if available).
Country	organizational	organisational	Preference
United States	99	1	“organizational”
United Kingdom	29	71	“organisational”
India	57	43	“organizational”
Philippines	99	1	“organizational”
Canada	95	5	“organizational”
Australia	23	77	“organisational”
Liberia	100	0	“organizational”
Ireland	37	63	“organisational”
New Zealand	34	66	“organisational”
Jamaica	89	11	“organizational”
Trinidad & Tobago	77	23	“organizational”
Guyana	74	26	“organizational”

Usage

Examples in context

Real sentences for each spelling. Hover an example to copy it.

“organizational”

…veterinary, behavioral, animal care and organizational development interns throughout the year.
…the bounds of the standard organizational hierarchy by being exclusively and…
…alignment with human resources and organizational leadership
…a framework for better understanding organizational communication.
…Division continued as the primary organizational component of the section until…
…causal structures of agency (technological, organizational, imperative, emergent), its structure (variance,…
The organizational center of gravity is located…
Develop an organizational structure that will ensure sustainability…
Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes…
But the organizational committee decided that at this…

“organisational”

…responsible for approving the corporation's organisational structure, employment policy, personnel records,…
…such that for all factions organisational activity proved near impossible.
…studio and it gave me organisational and fundraising skills."
…requirements gathering, market research and organisational change.
The faculties have different organisational sub-structures which partly reflect their…
…the two studies formed an organisational partnership, the Linear Collider Collaboration…
…common in the business and organisational world in the 1990s and
Organisational decision making occurring at the…
…temporal and spatial scales and organisational and institutional levels, and in…
Wesley's organisational skills soon established him as…

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