Organisational analysis is about organisations and people; this covers issues of structure and formality. But it also encompasses issues of process and, in a very fundamental way, change and is drawn from concerned with organisations in general rather than any specific sector (Yin, 1999). This essay explains model details the different levels of organisation analysis used within organisation theory.
To begin with, at society level of organisation analysis society refers to anything and everything outside the organisation (Weick, 2004). The point is that organisations are not independent entities sitting in stately isolation ‘No organisation is an island’. Quite clearly they are embedded within, and part of society at large. In some ways this is little more than a platitude, but the activities of some large organisations in projecting large numbers of their workforces onto the job market would suggest that it is not, perhaps, unoriginal enough. According Tom Peters blithely (1997) talk about ‘downsizing’ or other understatements for sacking people, with no consideration whatsoever for the burden that this potentially causes elsewhere. Certainly one does not get the impression from authors like Peters that those who are ‘downsized’ matter in any important way to the organisation that is getting rid of them for example may be an organisation is not making profit but number of workers are high hence the organisation has to cut off some workers (Mile, 2005).Nevertheless, the societal level is important when trying to understand organisations and how they work. For the public sector in many societies this has been painfully obvious in recent years changing legislation, the impact of changing social and political values, pressures to become more businesslike, and so on, not to mention the impact of unemployment on the economic and social fabric of society at large (Morgan,1997).
Organizational analysis is means through which organisation accomplish their missions...