Hello!
I do not claim to be an OB scholar, but I do teach OB undergraduate courses. In the past, I have used a semester-long team consulting project to help students see OB concepts in real life. Special shoutout to Dianne Murphy and Gloria Miller for their presentation at the 2018 MOBTS conference about team consulting projects as experiential learning (you can find it here: https://mobts.org/conference/2018).
However, the thought just occurred to me: while the project does give students a view of OB in real life, could the project also help students develop the skill of conducting an organizational analysis?
I think back to the times I took over as a new supervisor or manager and now realize that I should/could have performed an organizational analysis to help me better understand the situation I was walking into and to develop ways to improve organizational and individual performance.
So, I ask you:
- Should we frame an organizational analysis project as a means for students to learn how to conduct such an analysis when they become a supervisor or manager?
- What literature, books, models, frameworks, and other resources should I explore to better understand organizational analysis myself and to introduce it to my students?
Thank you,
Robert
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Robert Olinger, MS, SHRM-CP, AMA-CPM
Assistant Teaching Professor of Management
Ivy College of Business at Iowa State University
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