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Requirement #3: Organizational Analysis
Grade: 15%
Date due: March 23rd
Instructions: Apply the social systems model to any real-life organization (e.g. college, work
setting, church, political entity, social service agency, etc.) of your choosing. Organizational
analysis papers must address the content requested, in the order listed below. This paper is
to be completed individually, typed in 12-point font, double-spaced and a minimum of 6 pages.
Papers must also include the sub-headings identified in bold, be typed in paragraph format, and
each page numbered. Your first/last name, date and SOCW 347 should be typed into the upper
right-hand corner as your ‘header’. Citations and a reference page are required for this paper, in
correct APA format.
Use the following framework below for your application of the model:
Organizational Analysis: “Place the title of your organization here”
A. Introduction
1. Identify the type of organization that you are about to model as a social system.
2. Provide brief background information about this organization.
3. Which organizational theory is most applicable? Discuss why you selected this
theory?
B. Boundary
1. Discuss what a boundary is and its role within the social system perspective.
2. Identify your organization’s boundary and reasons why you believe this is a
boundary.
3. Identify and discuss specific boundary maintenance behaviors that support the
boundary you have identified in this organization.
C. Suprasystem
1. Discuss what a suprasystem is and its role within the social system perspective.
2. Identify a minimum of two interactions that are derived from your organization’s
suprasystem.
3. Discuss how these two interactions 1) mutually determinative (cause and effect) and
2) relates to the larger environment.
4. Are the interactions between your organization and its suprasystem cooperative or
conflictual? Discuss your selection and why you believe this to be the case.
D. Interface
1. Discuss what an interface is and its role within the social system perspective.
2. Identify one interface between your organization and one of the interactions you
identified in the suprasystem in Section C (2).
3. Discuss what turbulence exists at the interface that you identified in D (2) and why it
is turbulent.
4. Does the interface allow or filter communication? Why?
E. Task Input
1. Discuss what task input is and its role within the social systems perspective.
2. Identify your organization’s task signal input. Explain how your selection fits the
role of being a signal input.
3. Identify your organization’s task maintenance input(s). Explain how your
selection(s) fit the role of being a task maintenance input(s).
F. Proposed Task Output
1. Discuss what proposed task output is and how it relates to the social systems
perspective.
2. What conditions within the suprasystem initially led to a need for this organization?
3. How was this organization meant to address/alter the conditions identified in F (2)?
a. Mission
a.1. What is your organization’s current mission?
b. Goals
b.1. Identify one task goal your organization seeks to achieve.
b.1.a. What is your organization’s proposed task objective for
achieving this goal?
b.1.b. What day-to-day activities (a minimum of 2) does your
organization state they will engage in to meet its goal?
b.2 Identify one task maintenance goal your organization seeks to achieve.
b.2.a. What is your organization’s proposed objective for
achieving the maintenance goal?
b.2.b. What activities (a minimum of 2) does your organization
propose engaging in to achieve its maintenance goal?
G. Actual Task Output
1. Discuss what actual task output is within the social systems perspective and how it differs
from proposed task output.
a. Based on the objective you identified in section (F3) b.1.a what is the actual task
output?
b. Based on the objective you identified in section (F3) b.2.a what is the actual task
output?
2. Discuss what system waste is within the social systems perspective and how it relates to actual
task output.
a. Based on the objective you identified in section (F3) b.1.a what is the waste?
b. Based on the objective you identified in section (F3) b.2.a what is the waste?
H. Conversion Operations
1. Structure
a. Discuss what ‘organizational structure’ is and why it is important in
formal organizations.
b. Describe your organization’s organizational structure (i.e. bottom-up; top-
down; divisions of labor; power delegations). **Be sure to attach an
organizational chart that you create yourself to the end of your paper.
c. Identify and explain how parts of the organizational structure in section
(H1) b utilize their resources to meet the goals discussed in sections (F3)
b.1 and (F3) b.2.
2. Functions
a. Discuss what a function is within the social systems perspective and why
it is important in formal organizations.
b. Identify and describe what functions exist in your organization based on
the structure you identified in (H1) b.
c. What are the various types of technology and/or practice modalities used
in your organization?
3. Feedback
a. Discuss what feedback is and its overall utility for formal organizations.
b. Provide examples of feedback occurring in your organization (that would
impact the objectives you have identified in sections (F3) b.1.a and (F3)
b.2.a.
c. Discuss and explain to what extent the feedback is positive, negative or
both.
d. In what ways should the proposed objectives in sections (F3) b.1.a) and
(F3) b.2.a) be modified based on the feedback you identified in 3b?
e. Discuss how a social work practitioner could potentially utilize the
information discussed and resultant feedback to enhance
organizational/employee performance.
