Skills Practice 12.3: Readiness to Implement a Organization Skill Objective 1. To perform a formal evaluation of an organization’s readiness to implement a organization. Directions Step 1: Students should work in small groups of 3-4 to complete this assignment. Each group will need to identify an organization that can be used to conduct a readiness assessment. Many types of organizations can be used such as a student organization, a small business, an academic department or program, etc. Step 2: Once an organization has been identified, students should ask members of the management/leadership team to complete the Organization Readiness Assessment (See below for a copy of the instrument). Ideally, a sample of 3-5 members/staff from the organization should be asked to complete the same survey. Step 3: Once the surveys have administered, students should calculate the overall average score (based on responses to all questions) for the leader/manager group or respondents and a separate average score for the member/staff group respondents. Some general guidelines for interpreting the mean scores for the Organization Readiness Assessment are: Very High Readiness to Become a Team-Based Organization: 4.5-5.0 High Readiness to Become a Team-Based Organization: 4.0-4.4 Moderate Readiness to Become a Organization: 3.5-3.9 Low Readiness to Become a Team-Based Organization: 3.0-3.4 Very Low Readiness to Become a Organization: <3.0 Step 4: Students should now try to better understand why the readiness scores came out the way that they did for the leader/manager group and the member/staff group. This can be done by looking at the scores for individual items on the survey. Step 5: Students should identify some actions that could be taken to help the organization to enhance its overall readiness to become a team-based organization.
Skills Practice 12.3: Readiness to Implement a Organization Skill Objective 1. To perform a formal evaluation of an organization’s readiness to implement a organization. Directions Step 1: Students should work in small groups of 3-4 to complete this assignment. Each group will need to identify an organization that can be used to conduct a readiness assessment. Many types of organizations can be used such as a student organization, a small business, an academic department or program, etc. Step 2: Once an organization has been identified, students should ask members of the management/leadership team to complete the Organization Readiness Assessment (See below for a copy of the instrument). Ideally, a sample of 3-5 members/staff from the organization should be asked to complete the same survey. Step 3: Once the surveys have administered, students should calculate the overall average score (based on responses to all questions) for the leader/manager group or respondents and a separate average score for the member/staff group respondents. Some general guidelines for interpreting the mean scores for the Organization Readiness Assessment are: Very High Readiness to Become a Team-Based Organization: 4.5-5.0 High Readiness to Become a Team-Based Organization: 4.0-4.4 Moderate Readiness to Become a Organization: 3.5-3.9 Low Readiness to Become a Team-Based Organization: 3.0-3.4 Very Low Readiness to Become a Organization: <3.0 Step 4: Students should now try to better understand why the readiness scores came out the way that they did for the leader/manager group and the member/staff group. This can be done by looking at the scores for individual items on the survey. Step 5: Students should identify some actions that could be taken to help the organization to enhance its overall readiness to become a team-based organization.
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