My Organization: A Comprehensive Analysis using Organizational Theories
Opened: Wednesday, 29 September 2021, 7:40 AM
Due: Wednesday, 20 October 2021, 7:34 AM
Assignment Objectives:
Students should be able to:
- Utilize understanding of different organizational theories in analyzing own organization.
- Write a technical paper discussing result of your comprehensive analysis of selected organization.
Number of pages: Minimum of three pages.
Citations: All assigned readings must be cited in the paper.
Tasks:
- Select an organization.
- Get approval from organizational leaders for access and use of organizational data.
- Analyze your organization in terms of the following organizational theories:
- Bureaucratic theory
- Human Resource Management theory
- Theory X and Theory Y
- Analyze your organization in terms of Systems theory:
- Describe your school as a social system.
- Discuss whether your organization is an open or closed system. (illustrate using a social system diagram)
- Using role theory, explain your role and position in the organization (illustrate using role set diagram).
- Describe your organization as a sociotechnical system (illustrate using an STS diagram.
- Finally, describe your organization according to Mintzberg's configuration (see Interactive Mintzberg).