Milestone 1

Running head: MILISTONE 0

Angela Fasoli

Milestone One

Organizational Behavior

Professor Alex Labrie

January 20, 2017

Introduction

From the study, we can observe that the case study describes the organization as an organization that depends on the culture and has minimal consideration. The culture that the body practices contributes significantly to the problem that has occurred in the body. The organization staff is so dormant that they were not able to identify the ignition switch until it leads to the death of at least thirteen people. The engineers who were involved in the study were able to easily realize the problem while the real engineers of the organization were not capable of understanding it. The organization, in general, has an appreciative attribute as it agrees on its drawbacks and it ready to take the relevant steps to bring effectiveness.

Strengths

Each agency has its strengths. The organization has a competitive advantage over its competitors in the market. It has a high staff which brings great importance in the market.

Weakness

In any situation where there is a strength, there are also some shortcomings. The primary weakness of the organization is the lack of proper communication channel within the organization. The weakness has brought the problem in the case study. The organization has a weakness on raising issues affecting the firm. Also, practicing culture where people comes in the body and fail to ratify the challenge affecting the entire organization. Though the organization has these challenges, it can utilize them to come up with its opportunity.

Organizational modeling

A corporate model of a body defines an organization through its framework which includes the line of power, communication, resources and duty allocation in the firm. The basis of the model of the structure are usually from the goals and objectives of the organization, and it serves as the context in which processes operate.

The body uses autocratic model. The design carefully blueprints into functional departments which run from the top by the chief executive (Secchi, 2015). The manager manages the firm through various structures, regulations, rules, job descriptions and controls. The model works best where there are stable duties to be performed daily particularly when they can be broken down into series of separate. In this model, the low-level employees have little control over the work function. The organization does not welcome ideas from them and innovations as the critical decision is at the top. The guiding principal to autocratic model is that the management and the owners have numerous business experiences and the average employees have relatively low level of skills, and they depend on instructions from the top on what to do. In this model, the employees never fill that they are part of the overall team.

The other type in use in the industry and the external industries is custodial. The model has its bases on providing economic Securities to its employees. The organization offers the security through wages or ever other benefits such as giving vehicles. By doing so, it enables them to motivate their employees. The employees fill that they are part of the team and work to ensure that they meet the set goals and objectives. The employees are allowed to apply their innovativeness in their activities. There is a difference between the organization models in use by the firm. The primary reason is that the model in use the chief executive is in full control of the whole company. The other patterns in use in other related industries give their employees freedom to use their innovativeness. Also, the model does not draw back to the traditions way of giving instructions.

Today the impact of culture in the organization is minimal due to the adoption of the custodial and supportive models of organization behavior. The chief executive has to give fewer directions on the operation of the firm. The company has given the employees support and freedom to utilize their skills entirely (U.S., 2008). These have to lead to greater impacts compared to the past where everything was under chief executive and was in incapability of meeting them.

The current custodial model is unique in the organization. The primary reason is that the firm offers economic security to the employees. Therefore, using custodial model enables it to protect its employees either through wages or other benefits. As a result, the employees fill motivated and are more willing to work and bring changes in the organization. Motivational models put in place are shifting in comparison to the firm modeling trends. It makes the employees compete internally in their knowledge thus attracting and retaining quality staff within the organization. It also contributes to high-quality services in the organization and these results into significant output in the body.

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