A Case Study On Real Life Events Of An Organization

The GM organization has been described as an organization with great culture crisis, the story in the study screams culture problems in the organization where employees are fired, many policy and procedures changes at without prior notice to them. Culture encompasses all the values and behaviors that constitute to a unique socialization which is a component of a healthy working environment for employees (Fullan, M. (2001). Culture greatly influences the organization 's output and performance; it as well provides better guidelines on customer care and service in addition to the concern for the environment.

“The outcome of the research phase is not only consensus about the facts of the organization and its environment; it also gives focus to the next step, that of formulating the organization’s vision for itself” (Berman, 2006, p. 70). Organizational mandates and the type of stakeholders that need to be engaged are often identified prior to developing mission, vision and values. Once an understanding of mandates and stakeholders are clear, then the design phase can continue. The MDHHS strategic planning team and its designated stakeholders develop statements to describe what the department does and why it exists, decides upon principles and beliefs that will guide the continued work of the department, and a statement of the ideal future state based on the work the department intends to do (mission, vision, values, respectively). In addition, the information collected in the research phase is compiled and assessed and any additional data needs are identified and summarized. Organizational strengths and weaknesses and external opportunities and threats (SWOT) or challenges (SWOC) are identified in this phase (Berman, 2006, p. 71).

Strategic Planning is an essential first step in the development of a result-base accountability system,” (Schilder, 2013, p. 1). In strategic planning an organization must know their goals, missions, and how to reach them. Health care facilities are in huge demand for the elderly and for people who lives in low-income communities. A person who receives good quality health care services can prevent the spread of contagious diseases. This paper will describe the need of the community, population it is serving, and a brief description of the facility.

The objective of this report was to analyze Vivint-Smart Home Solutions’ performance in terms of organisational culture, management and leadership styles and motivation and how organizations have been affected by them. In this report, we identified that Vivint has an association of Hierarchy and Market organisational culture, relationship-oriented and task-oriented leadership styles and servant leadership style. Moreover, it demonstrated that Vivint has intrinsic and extrinsic rewards. These resulted in successful and unsuccessful practices of Vivint based on the Undercover Boss TV series based on three aspects which have been mentioned above. In addition, this report critiqued the Undercover Boss method for discovering the problems within an organisation and recommended other processes for uncovering issues. The results showed that organisational culture, management and leadership styles as well as motivation played significant roles in Vivint’s performance. Recommendations have been made to improve the unsuccessful practices of Vivint such as training managers to be empathic problem solver, examining and updating the working condition regularly, bonus for employees who give feedback voluntarily on management processes and offering fund to employees who are in need of support.

Without strategic planning, several things can go wrong including missing out on great opportunities. Strategic planning is an organization’s outline to help achieve its purpose. Although strategic planning begins at the top of the pyramid, it is more effective when it is carry out as a whole among other in the organization. Having a good internal control system in place protects an organization from high risk, fraud, and more. Jackson Memorial Hospital has several weaknesses which are similar to its competitors and other health care organizations. For instance, Mount Sinai Medical Center one of Jackson Memorial’s competitors, encountered lack of strategic planning that led to many issues such as with readmissions, surgical complications,

Organizations face numerous barriers in overcoming resistance to change that can improve performance measures, customer service, and the effectiveness of the workforce. For the changes to become efficient and effective, organizations need to develop a strategy that can guide the organization in achieving the desired results. The purpose of the organization’s strategic plan is to align processes with the vision, develop collaboration, foster partnerships, and improve efficient use of equipment and facilities (Interprofessional Resource Center, n.d.). Numerous components perform their individual functions with their own vision of what the organization should be. The challenge for

Bryson, J. M. (2011). Strategic planning for public and nonprofit organizations: A guide to strengthening and sustaining organizational achievement: 4th ed. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Every organization should have a strategic plan to achieve its goals in a limited time period, the strategic plan has many variable models. The strategic planning process that we studied needs a collaboration between the organization’s staff, board members, and strategic plan committee. This strategic planning process has ten guide steps.

Strategic Planning: Due to the current issues, both internally and externally, the organization is facing, Dr. Townsend is challenged to prepare an action plan to implement the proposed strategy needed to restore the organization back to financial health and improve the morale among the physicians and support staff. Another course of planning Dr. Townsend will challenge is the organizations old structure into a way that all patients will be satisfied.

In business there are strategies that need to be fulfilled. Starting a business or health care organization we need to use strategy planning. In the strategy planning of our business or health care organization we need to map out the mission, vision and goals that we want our business or health care organization to meet. My paper is going to be on the Veterans Health Administration strategy planning. This paper will review their internal and external assessments, competitive marketing analysis, identification of stakeholders, an overview and assessments of services provided, competencies and

The Case Study concerning MacFarlane solutions is an interesting one to note down regarding strategic planning in an organization. From the information given, it appears that the small business expanded merely due to the insight of Bill MacFarlane and the planning that he gave forward. (McDonald 2011 pg. 736) Bill started off after working in a firm and having an experience of more than forty years. He specialized in what he knew and then gave forward what he was good out. There was risk in his ventures as the expert started out, however he trusted his instincts and went out with the planning.

A non-profit organization cannot be effectively managed if it is not effectively planned. One of the challenges facing non-profit organizations has been long range, strategic planning. Long range, strategic planning in the non-profit sector is essential to the success of an organization. Long range, strategic planning encompasses broad policy and direction setting, internal and external assessments, attention to key stakeholders, the identification of key issues, development of strategies to deal with each issue, decision making, action and the continuous monitoring of results. (Herman, The Jossey-Bass Handbook of Nonprofit Leadership and Management, 154) While it is important to deal with the short term planning and activities of non-profits, managers or directors must consider the future of their organizations. Successful planning should be comprehensive, integrating all areas of responsibility of an organization.

Peter Nicholson wishes to convert the factory in the north east to production of the electric taxi. Using data in Appendix C, Table 1, calculate payback period and the average rate of return.

In reading the first article Coach Knight: The Will to Win, I found the article found Coach Knight to be very offensive and mean to his players. Coach Knight did not display good leadership skills. According to the article, Coach Knight’s drive and passion for excellence was not always received as well as his record of wins and losses Snook, Per low, Delacey, 2005).

While different organizations appoint several stakeholders for this task, others restrict their strategic planning process to their internal stakeholders only. In this case, only top executives are responsible for the planning and decision-making. However, in the Ritz-Carlton hotel, both internal and external stakeholders are involved in the strategic planning process. The organization understands the benefit of inclusion in generating ideas. This paper will, therefore, elaborate on the Ritz-Carlton hotel as a familiar organization and duly identifies the various stakeholders that ought to be involved in its strategic planning process and the paper examines the importance of these stakeholders and the unique insight they bring to the strategic planning process. Furthermore, the paper considers the various functional areas that are important and the functional areas that are less relevant in the strategic planning process. As in every organization, decision-makers are important so this paper identified key decision-makers in the Ritz-Carlton strategic planning process and finally, we evaluate the importance and effect of these stakeholders in the organization’s planning