The Art of Organizational Diagnosis: Pathogens and Remedies

Copyright © 2013 Bilal Bin Saeed, Wenbin Wang. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Organizational diagnosis is the process of diagnosing an organizational health, finding pathogens if any and finally re-moving those pathogens through some corrective actions. In order to perform an effective diagnosis, the first step is to identify the organization’s health types. In this paper we propose three basic states of an organization with respect to the health of the organization. These three states in which an organization can be at any point of time are performing, stable and disarranged. Every state has its own characteristics, which can be measured through the extended diagnostic model. Based on those measurements diagnostician can classify an organization to be in one of the states. Finally the diagnos-tician suggests corrective actions for the stable or disarranged states to move the organization to the performing state