Frames for Understanding and Assessing Organizations

As you learn in this week's content, there are many ways perspectives available to understand and assess organizations. Consider some of the various frames and theories and how they may apply to organizations you are part of or know about. Here are some ideas to get you started:

• Share a journal article, video, podcast, or other resource one of the theories and perspectives (for example, bureaucratic theory, scientific and universalistic management theories). How might the content apply to an organization you are part of or know about?
• Select one of the symbolic theories and perspectives and share why you think it is important to utilize this frame to better understand an organization.
• Select an organization that you are part of or know about and share how you can apply the concepts of contextuality, intersectionality, and multiplexity in understanding it.
• Part of an organizational assessment includes looking at the organization's environmental relationships. Select an organization you are part of or know about. Identify whether it is a for-profit or non-profit organization. What does the agency do when people who don't qualify for services? What implicit and explicit biases are part of the organization's relationships and culture?