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What is your Organization’s Management Style?

What is your Organization’s Management Style?. Answer the following questionnaire to find out. [G. Petty, How to be Better at Creativity , The Industrial Society, Kogan Page Ltd., London, 1997. HD53.P47].

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What is your Organization’s Management Style?

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  1. What is your Organization’s Management Style? Answer the following questionnaire to find out. [G. Petty, How to be Better at Creativity, The Industrial Society, Kogan Page Ltd., London, 1997. HD53.P47] How Your Organization is Managed, Management of Technological Innovation, KV Patri

  2. Organizing is an important function of management. The following assessment helps you define how an organization you are familiar with is organized. With this information, you can determine if this organization 's design is consistent with the environmental forces it is facing. How Your Organization is Managed, Management of Technological Innovation, KV Patri

  3. Instructions • For this questionnaire, focus on either an organization for which you are currently working or one for which you have worked in the past. This organization could be the university you are attending. • Please circle the response on the scale indicating the degree to which you agree or disagree with each statement. • There is no right or wrong answer. • Respond on the following scale to how you see your organization being managed: Strongly Agree (SA), Agree (A), Don’t Know (DK), Disagree (D), Strongly Disagree (SD). How Your Organization is Managed, Management of Technological Innovation, KV Patri

  4. 1. If people believe that they have the right approach to carrying out their job, they can usually go ahead without checking with their superior: SA A DK D SD 2. People in the organization don't always have to wait for orders from their superiors on important matters: SA A DK D SD 3. People in this organization share ideas with their superior: SA A DK D SD 4. Different individuals play important roles in making decisions: SA A DK D SD How Your Organization is Managed, Management of Technological Innovation, KV Patri

  5. 10. In this organization, most people can have their point of view heard: SA A DK D SD 11. Superiors often seek advice from their subordinates before decisions are made: SA A DK D SD 12. Subordinates play an active role in running this organization: SA A DK D SD 13. For many decisions, the rules and regulations are developed as we go along: SA A DK D SD 14. It is not always necessary to go through channels in dealing with important matters: SA A DK D SD 15. The same rules and regulations are not consistently followed by employees: SA A DK D SD How Your Organization is Managed, Management of Technological Innovation, KV Patri

  6. 16. There are few rules and regulations for handling any kind of problem that may arise in making most discussions: SA A DK D SD 17. People from different departments are often put together in task forces to solve important problems: SA A DK D SD 18. For special problems, we usually set up a temporary task force until we meet our objectives: SA A DK D SD 19. Jobs in this organization are not clearly defined: SA A DK D SD 20. In this organization, adapting to changes in the environment is important: SA A DK D SD How Your Organization is Managed, Management of Technological Innovation, KV Patri

  7. Now give scores to each answer according to the following scheme: SA: 5, A: 4, DK: 3, D: 2, SD: 1. • Find the total score over the 20 questions. • 0-39: Bureaucratic 40-79: Mixed 80-100: Organic How Your Organization is Managed, Management of Technological Innovation, KV Patri

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