Task: Interview employees of a small- to medium-size organization (Esgee Plastic Systems), analyze the reasons for its design.
Question 1. What is the organization in business to do? What are its goals and its strategies for achieving them?
Question 2. How large is the company? What is the total number of employees? How many work full time? How many work part time?
Question 3. What are the most important components of the organization's environment?
Question 4. Is the number of important environmental components large or small?
Question 5. How quickly or slowly do these components change?
Question 6. Would you characterize the organization's environment as certain, uncertain, or somewhere in between? If in between, describe in detail approximately how certain or uncertain.
Question 7. What is the organization's dominant technology; that is, how does it transform inputs into outputs?
Question 8. How rigid is the company in its application of rules and procedures? Is it flexible enough to respond to environmental changes?
Question 9. How involved are employees in the daily decision making related to their jobs?
Question 10. What methods are used to ensure control over the actions of employees?