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| Open System | 1. | ||||
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| Human Relations | 1. | ||||
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| Internal Process | 1. | ||||
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| Rational Goal | 1. | ||||
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2. Before working as a group, each student should think of an organization with which he/she is familiar.
Example: A student selects where s/he worked last summer.3. In class you will be assigned to a working group. Each group member shares the organization he/she is thinking about. Then the group as a whole chooses which organization they will work on together. (You may decide to choose the organization that seems most "interesting", or one that a group member knows particularly well, or whatever.)
4. "Locate" the organization within the Competing Values framework of Exhibit 2.9 p. 71, i.e. decide in which quadrant or quadrants of the model your organization "fits" best.
5. Then use the lists in Exhibit 2.9 p. 71 to select two goals or subgoals for the organization corresponding to its location in the model; these may be from the same quadrant, or from two different quadrants if your organization straddles more than one quadrant.
Example: For the Human Relations model, a student selects the goal of employee morale.6. Then, decide what you would use to evaluate the performance of the organizaiton with respect to that (sub)goal.
Example: The student decides that number of employee complaints will be the performance gauge.7. Next, decide how you would measure performance with respect to that (sub)goal.
Example: The student decides to measure morale by comparing the number of complaints during one year to the number of employees, expressing the result as a percentage.8. Then, indicate where you would locate the information used to evaluate performance with respect to that (sub)goal.
Example: The student decides to use the complaint box located in the employee lounge, in which employees filled out forms stating the nature of their complaint. The student tabulates the number of complaints over the course of one year.9. Finally, designate a "cut-off" that you would use as a criterion to decide whether or not the goal was reached.
Example: The student decides that employee morale is high when the number of complaints placed in the complaint box in one year is less than or equal to 5% of the total number of employees.10. Enter the result of your discussions in the table above, and make sure to note the names of all students in the group. Then each group will be invited to share their results with the rest of the class.