Analyzing Organizational Effectiveness

Assessment Description

The purpose of this assignment is to analyze how businesses interact with their internal and external environments. Students will also apply their knowledge of decision-making models, technology and innovation, management theories, and goal setting.

Considering that an organization is defined as two or more people working together toward a common goal, think of an organization with which you are or have been involved (e.g., campus club, employer, church group). Select one of these organizations where you observed or were affected by a problem or issue as the basis of this paper in which you will analyze its effectiveness in handling that problem or issue.

Write a paper (1,600-1,800 words) in which you address the following based on the organization you have selected.

1. Describe your involvement in the organization you have chosen to write about during the time it experienced the issue/problem. Include a brief summary of the issue/problem.
2. Apply the four components of an open system in evaluating whether your chosen organization functioned as an effective open system while interacting with its external environment during that period. Explain your response.
3. Provide an explanation, using three appropriate management theories from three distinct viewpoints/approaches, for how the organization could have handled the problem effectively with three specific stakeholders (internal and/or external). For example, you can include one theory from within each of the following: the classical viewpoint (e.g., scientific management theory), the human relations approach under the behavioral viewpoint, (e.g., Maslow’s hierarchy of needs theory), and evidence-based management under the quantitative viewpoint.
4. Define both the rational and nonrational decision-making models. Explain whether the rational or the nonrational decision-making model was used in handling the problem. If rational is chosen, integrate its steps in your response. For either rational or nonrational, evaluate the shortcomings of the decision-making model used.
5. Identify and use an AI tool, such as Mosaic or other approved applications noted in the Approved Tools and Plugins section of the AI Resource Center, located on the Student Success Center, to formulate a suggested solution to the problem. Discuss the steps taken to generate the suggested solution, including the prompt that you created and adjusted to yield the desired results.
6. Considering the four functions of management, briefly suggest how each function can be used to implement one long-term goal and one short-term goal to meet the AI recommendation above. Include a justified rationale for your suggestions.

You are required to use at least four external scholarly sources in addition to the textbook.

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