Compare and contrast individual organizational and group lev

Compare and contrast individual, organizational and group level diagnosis. How do design components differ? Explain and/or provide an example.

Solution

Organization-Level Diagnosis: In organizational diagnosis we consider following factors:

Strategy: It represent the way an organization uses its resources to gain and sustain competitive advantage. It can be described by the organization’s mission, goals and objectives strategic intent, and functional policies

Structure: The structural system describes how attention and resources are focused to complete a task. In this overall work of an organization is divided into subunits so that it can be assign to individuals and groups and coordinate these subunits for successful completion of the overall work.

Culture: Organization culture represents the values, and norms shared by organizational members. It suggests the kinds of necessary behaviors for success of organization.

People and Technology: HR systems exhibit the mix of skills, personalities and behaviors of organization member .And technology is concerned with the way an organization converts inputs into products and services.

Group level Diagnosis: Following diagnosis are done at group level:

Group Dynamic: It represents characteristics of a group

Group Norms: are member beliefs about how the group should perform task.

Group Performance: Group performance exhibits how a group together perform organizational goal.

Individual level Diagnosis: This diagnosis is done at individual level in organization.

Employee satisfactions: Employee satisfactions identify the satisfactions level of an individual in performing his task/job.

Employee Performance: It explains the performance of an individual employee in an organization.

Design components differ at various levels such as lets take an example “organization want to add a new product line”. For this objective managers should diagnosis the different level in the organization. Through diagnosis one can understand how the objective could be implemented effectively and what task are to be done.

Organizational level:

Strategy: Formulate the mission, goal and objective of organization.

Structure: Divide the over all organization into various departments and assign the task and allocate the resource needed to achieve objective, such as marketing, finance, human resource.

People and technology: People refers to human resource of an organization, recruitment of competent people is done technology refers to the mode/equipments needed to meet the objective.

Group level:

Group dynamic: It exhibits the competency of group, how capable are they to work in a group to achieve organizational goal.

Group Performance: Group performance is the important factor for organizational growth and development, so contribution of group is measured.

Individual Level:

Employee Satisfaction: A satisfied employee can put his best to organization, satisfactions is related with both monetary and non monetary. Job satisfactions promoted employee to work efficiently

Employee performance: Employee individual performance is measured to ensure the desired performance needed to achieve organizational goal.