My Organization: A Comprehensive Analysis using Organizational Theories

Assignment Objectives:

Students should be able to:

  1. Utilize understanding of different organizational theories in analyzing own organization.
  2. Write a technical paper discussing result of yout comprehensive analysis of selected organization.

Number of pages: Minimum of three pages.

Citations: All assigned readings must be cited in the paper. 

Tasks:

  1. Select an organization.
  2. Get approval from organizational leaders for access and use of organizational data.
  3. Analyze your organization in terms of the following organizational theories:
    1. Bureaucratic theory
    2. Human Resource Management theory
    3. Theory X and Theory Y
  4. Analyze your organization in terms of Sytems theory:
    1. Describe your school as a social system.
    2. Discuss whether your organization is an open or closed system. (illustrate using a social system diagram)
    3. Using role theory, explain your role and position in the organization (illustrate using role set diagram).
  5. Describe your organization as a sociotechnical system (illustrate using an STS diagram.
  6. Finally, describe your organization according to Mintzberg's configuration.