Organizational-system effectiveness

Organisational effectiveness is the central theme of organization theory. No management can think of a theory of organization that does not include the concept of effectiveness. Everyone-academicians and corporate people-unanimously agree to the significance of effectiveness in organization.
Organisational effectiveness represents a desirable attribute in organization.
Effectiveness could be defined as the degree to which organization realizes its goals.
Organisational effectiveness is the extent to which an organization, given certain resources and means ,achieves its objectives without placing undue strain on its members .
Effectiveness is the ability of an organization to mobilize its centres of power for action-producing and adaptation.
Effectiveness of an organization can be seen in terms of survival of the organization.
According to silver and Sherman, Organisational effectiveness is the extent to which defind and finite resources can achieve its growth and profit without destroying its internal resources. It is how a company meets its minimization of stoppage between the input of resources and the optimized output .He further supports his viewpoint by an analogy that, there are parts of a ship which taken by themselves sink . The engine would plunge into the bottom of the sea and so would the propeller . The steel of the hull would sink. But when the parts of the ship are put together, they float. Thus organizational effectiveness is getting it together , to keep the enterprise afloat and competitive.
According to Houck levis Organisational effectiveness is the tool to which a goal that has been set for an operating task is attained in terms of quality and completion.
Warren. G. Bennils opines Organisational effectiveness is the system’s capacity to survive, adapt, maintain and grow, regardless of the particular function it performs.

Organizational systems effectiveness

People in the organization can tilt either way toward growth or toward stagnation. The design of the system in which people work can significantly influence which way they go and how far. The more they tilt toward stagnation, the higher the probability of developing organization illness. And in general ,the more they orient themselves toward growth, the better for organizational health. Behavioural research scientists are of the opinion that organization can be made more humane and at the same time more effective. It is possible to design organizational systems where individual participants can give of themselves and not given themselves up. In spite of the fact that some basic conflicts between the individual and the organization , there can be new organizational structures ,heightened competence in interpersonal relation among the managers , and increased group effectiveness. On the other hand incompetent organizational structures create executive environments lacking in trust, openness, dynamism and results in ineffective problem solving ,poor decision making and organizational illness.

Organizational System design

Just in any other aspect of decision making, it is important to point to the most fundamental aspect of business management i.e. the individualization of decision making based on organizational needs, wants and ability. It is safe to assume that most business concepts and fundamentals are uniform and apply to virtually all businesses. However, any decision maker or stakeholder has to be aware that those fundamentals have to be tailored to particular organizations current standing, ability as well as organizational goals and organizational strategic vision.

This may lead to the conclusion that informational technology is no exception. Information systems and its respective tools that include software and hardware are simply tools that are used to enhance the organizational ability to become more effective and efficient. Hence those tools have to be tailored and customized in order to reap the benefits. In order to maximize the benefits, one has to assume that operators i.e. employees or decision makers have the greatest knowledge and expertise to use those systems. Equally the customization has to be done in a way that complements the end users ability to use those systems.

Ultimately, it is not far fetched to label information systems simply as just another tool that can not be effectively maximized in its usage, unless it is designed, tailored and customized to fit the goals as well as the ability of the end user to effective implement their respective usage.