Please note, this assignment should not be a reiteration of the answers you use in your case study, rather, for the Group Discussion Board assignments you are being asked to discuss how answering the questions help you to better understand your organization. That is, explain how the questions have helped you understand your organization better. For example, when discussing your views on the structural theories lens in Forum 1, you might say “viewing the chain of command helped me to realize….” or “after considering the span of control, it is clear that….” You do not have to share your views on each of the guiding questions.
1. What is the cycle of production for this organization? i.e., what are we about as an organization?
a. What do we bring in (input), how do we use it and form our product (throughput)?
b. What do we send out into the larger world (output)?
2. Are we open to negative feedback from the sub and super systems?
a. What are we doing to reverse the entropy of the system?
b. Are we exploring other paths to the ends (equifinality)?
3. What is our proper place in the broader society and economy?Issue: genotypic function (Productive, Maintenance, Adaptive, Managerial/Political)
4. Are we balancing our need for profit with a long-term view of survival? The issue is the Maximization Principle
5. How are we scanning the environment?What do we know about the environmental sectors? (Economic, political, social, etc.)
Submit your thread by 11:59 p.m. (ET) on Thursday of Module/Week 3 and your replies by 11:59 p.m. (ET) on Sunday of the same module/week.
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