ASSESSMENT IN ORGANIZATIONS Issue 1

ASSESSING THE

ASSESSMENT(What and Why?)

February 4, 2018“MEDIOCRITY IS ALWAYS IN OPPOSITION TO GREATNESS” – JIM COLLINS IN THE NEXT ISSUE…

What is an Organizational Assessment?An organizational assessment is just what it sounds like, “an assessment of an organization”. Our company’s overall performance will be evaluated to determine our overall effectiveness to identify our strengths and our areas of opportunity.

There are three important ideas that capture and impact that performance: 1) organizational motivation which represents the underlying personality of the company and drives our employees to perform. This can include our mission statement, culture, incentives and rewards, 2) the environment which refers to the “external” environment and what resources are available to the organization to support business efforts which could include economic resources, sociocultural or technological conditions, and lastly, 3) organizational capacity which is

how our organization is utilizing our internal resources to perform and can range from leadership efforts to program and process management.

Why is an Organizational Assessment Important?The reason an organizational assessment is important to the health of our organization is because we need to be able to identify what we are doing successfully, as well as things or areas that we could potentially improve, remove or change completely to drive better effectiveness or efficiency. We need to be able to adapt to the everchanging needs of our customers, and by identifying our strengths and areas of opportunity, we will put ourselves in a position to be able to plan and adjust accordingly.

Why The “Good to Great” Model For our Assessment?

We will use the “Good to Great” assessment because our company is still in the “adolescence” stage of growth, and the board feels as though now would be the right time to perform an assessment of how we are performing and what we can do as an organization to take our company to the next level.

Don’t Be Mediocre.

The Good to Great ModelBy Jill Allan, BIS 357, Spring 2018

Identifying a Level 5 Leader

Are the Right People in Place?

Why The “Good to Great” Model For our Assessment continued….This assessment examines quality in our current leadership and our commitment to our core values, and allows us to to approach all other ideas with flexibility and honesty. We will also focus on personnel and our culture across our organization, and look outside of the organization to the community and to our shareholders.

In the next three issues, a brief overview will be provided of each of the nine concepts of the Good to Great model and how we will use them in our own assessment. A more in-depth plan of each concept will be discussed at our upcoming leadership meeting.

The information we hope to glean from this assessment will be to identify best practices from the good to great model and incorporate them into our day-to-day operations, and to have a good business model by which we can periodically measure our strengths and areas that need to be focused on.

FOR MORE INFORMATION

http://www.reflectlearn.org/discover/your-introductory-guide-to-oa https://www.jimcollins.com/tools/diagnostic-tool.pdf