TITLE:
The Art of Organizational Diagnosis: Pathogens and Remedies
AUTHORS:
Bilal Bin Saeed, Wenbin Wang
KEYWORDS:
Organizational Health; Organizational Pathology; Organizational Diseases; Organizational Diagnosis
JOURNAL NAME:
iBusiness,
Vol.5 No.2,
June
27,
2013
ABSTRACT: Organizational diagnosis
is the process of diagnosing an organizational health, finding pathogens if any
and finally removing
those pathogens through some corrective actions. In order to perform an
effective diagnosis, the first step is to identify the organization’s health types. In this paper we
propose three basic states of an organization with respect to the health of the
organization. These three states in which an organization can be at any point
of time are performing, stable and disarranged. Every state has its own
characteristics, which can be measured through the extended diagnostic model.
Based on those measurements diagnostician can classify an organization to be in
one of the states. Finally the diagnostician suggests corrective actions for the stable or disarranged states
to move the organization to the performing state.