Individual Research Paper

Week 6: Individual Research Paper

For this assignment, you will write a paper about the design essentials related to your employer’s organizational theory. Access 1 topic from the Individual Research Topics document. Based on your topic, select 2 of the 6 items from the design essentials list below to write about in your paper:

1. Tools to adapt to a changing environment.

2. The role of managers in shaping organizations to perform well and meet the needs of society.

3. Designing organizations to achieve both efficiency and effectiveness.

4. Organization design elements: the technical core, top management, middle management, technical support, and administrative support.

5. Mechanistic versus organic organization design.

6. Open organization systems that interact with the environment.