Organizational Analysis Paper

Organizational Analysis Paper

Instructions: Apply the social systems model to any real-life organization (e.g. college, work setting, church, political entity, social service agency, etc.) of your choosing. Organizational analysis papers must address the content requested, in the order listed below. This paper is to be completed individually, typed in 12-point font, double-spaced and a minimum of 6 pages. Papers must also include the sub-headings identified in bold, be typed in paragraph format, and each page numbered. Your first/last name, date and SOCW 347 should be typed into the upper right-hand corner as your ‘header’. Citations and a reference page are required for this paper, in correct APA format.

Use the following framework below for your application of the model:

Organizational Analysis: “Place the title of your organization here”

Introduction

1. Identify the type of organization that you are about to model as a social
2. Provide brief background information about this
3. Which organizational theory is most applicable? Discuss why you selected this theory?

Boundary

4. Discuss what a boundary is and its role within the social system
5. Identify your organization’s boundary and reasons why you believe this is a
6. Identify and discuss specific boundary maintenance behaviors that support the boundary you have identified in this organization.

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Suprasystem

7. Discuss what a suprasystem is and its role within the social system
8. Identify a minimum of two interactions that are derived from your organization’s
9. Discuss how these two interactions 1) mutually determinative (cause and effect) and

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2) relates to the larger environment.

10. Are the interactions between your organization and its suprasystem cooperative or conflictual? Discuss your selection and why you believe this to be the case.

Interface

11. Discuss what an interface is and its role within the social system
12. Identify one interface between your organization and one of the interactions you identified in the suprasystem in Section C (2).
13. Discuss what turbulence exists at the interface that you identified in D (2) and why it is turbulent.
14. Does the interface allow or filter communication? Why?

Task Input

15. Discuss what task input is and its role within the social systems
16. Identify your organization’s task signal Explain how your selection fits the role of being a signal input.
17. dentify your organization’s task maintenance input(s). Explain how your selection(s) fit the role of being a task maintenance input(s).

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Proposed Task Output

18. Discuss what proposed task output is and how it relates to the social systems
19. What conditions within the suprasystem initially led to a need for this organization?
20. How was this organization meant to address/alter the conditions identified in F (2)?
    1. Mission
       • What is your organization’s current mission?
    2. Goals
       • Identify one task goal your organization seeks to
         • What is your organization’s proposed task objective for achieving this goal?
         • What day-to-day activities (a minimum of 2) does your organization state they will engage in to meet its goal?

• Identify one task maintenance goal your organization seeks to
  • What is your organization’s proposed objective for achieving the maintenance goal?
  • What activities (a minimum of 2) does your organization propose engaging in to achieve its maintenance goal?

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Actual Task Output

21. Discuss what actual task output is within the social systems perspective and how it differs from proposed task output.
    1. Based on the objective you identified in section (F3) 1.a what is the actual task output?
    2. Based on the objective you identified in section (F3) 2.a what is the actual task output?
22. Discuss what system waste is within the social systems perspective and how it relates to actual task output.
    1. Based on the objective you identified in section (F3) b.1.a what is the waste?
    2. Based on the objective you identified in section (F3) b.2.a what is the waste?

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23. Structure
    1. Discuss what ‘organizational structure’ is and why it is important in formal organizations.
    2. Describe your organization’s organizational structure (i.e. bottom-up; top- down; divisions of labor; power delegations). **Be sure to attach an organizational chart that you create yourself to the end of your paper.
    3. Identify and explain how parts of the organizational structure in section (H1) b utilize their resources to meet the goals discussed in sections (F3)

b.1 and (F3) b.2.

24. Functions
    1. Discuss what a function is within the social systems perspective and why it is important in formal organizations.