Assignment:
In this segment of our ongoing case, you will be identifying key transformation or throughput processes and looking at the relationships between them. To do this you will be drawing on the Burke-Litwin Causal Model.
The Burke-Litwin is a complicated model and is, perhaps, too big for an analysis of this size. For this reason, you are going to limit your analysis to those transactional variables identified.
The seven transactional variables are:
Structure (Burke-Litwin describes structure as the arrangement of the functions, people responsibilities, authorities, communication and interactions in a way that supports the organization's mission, goals and strategy. Identify the organizational structure of Industrial Services of America, Inc. and comment on how well it fits - or not - with its strategy. Be sure to specify the structure by type: matrix, team based, functional or product departmentalization, organic/mechanistic, etc..)
- Tasks and Skills (Unique or core competencies)
- Management practices (e.g. participative or centralized decision making)
- Systems and Policies (information systems, financial, marketing, production, human resources, etc.)
- Work unit climate
- Motivation
- Individual needs and goals
Individual and Organizational Performance is influenced by the Motivation factor. And, the Motivation factor interacts with three factors: Task and Skills, Individual Needs and Values, and Work Unit Climate. It also shows other interactions.
Research Industrial Services of America, Inc. on its throughput variables. This may take some digging, since companies do not usually provide this inside information liberally. You may have to make some inferences.
ASSIGNMENT:
Make a Case that the amount of Motivation in the chosen company has a direct effect on the Performance. You need to show that the Motivation in the company is a primary factor in generating this performance. In order to make this case, you need to generate some backing evidence and data.
In order to make your case you need to:
1. Identify and briefly discuss each of the throughput variables in the company.
2. Explain how these variables interact.
3. Determine how these interactions generate the amount of Motivation in the company.
4. Make a Case for your proposition on how Motivation affects the company's Performance.