MHR 650 Study Guide - Pest Analysis, Organizational Culture, Environmental Determinism

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Human Resources
• Course: MHR 650
• Professor: Frank Miller

Document Summary

This model identifies the transformational external environment, mission and strategy, leadership and organizational culture - and transactional sources of change. Fundamental premise of the model that that planned change should flow from top of the diagram (environment) the bottom (performance. However, (indicated by the arrows, the feedback loops go in both directions, indicating that internal organizational factors can impact the environment and not just be on the receiving end of a one way environmental determinism: four frame model. Structural frame presents organizations as akin to machines that are designed to efficiently turn inputs into outputs. This offers four frames for the managers to conceptualize how the organization operates: human resource frame directs attention to the relationship between the organization and the people that comprise it. Political frame suggests that we see organizations as sites where participants interact in pursuit of a range of objectives, some in common, some that differ, some that complements and some that conflict.