1980
Guide to Organizational Evaluation
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Overview
| Far exceeds
program requirements |
Exceeds program
requirements |
Meets program
requirements |
Needs some
improvement |
Does not meet minimum
requirements |
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| IMPACT | Earth trembles when programs
are conceived --
Changes universe over night |
Programs move mountains
when implemented --
Changes world totally over night |
Organizations move to
larger offices using program funds --
Regularly reports great progress on change programs |
Programs stillborn
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Regularly changes office decor and layout |
Programs abort before
conception -- Programs tend to backfire and eliminate organization |
| TIMING | Changes implemented long before problem is thought to exist | Changes implemented faster than speed of thought | Changes implemented on time according to progress reports | Changes implemented when no longer needed | Staff unfamiliar with clocks and calendars |
| ADAPTABILITY | Has responsive program in all fields of human activity | Programs adapted immediately to establishment guidelines | Programs adapted immediately in anticipation of new fund sources | Programs revised daily in light of news headlines | Programs frequently adapted in support of competing organizations |
| COMMITMENT | Staff committed to total transformation of universe | Staff committed to prosyletizing all contacts | Staff primarily committed to their own survival in the organization | Staff commitments responsive to gifts and guidance from benefactors | Principal staff members tend to be committed for clinical care |
| PUBLIC RELATIONS | Programs smell good to all the people all the time | Programs smell good to sufficient people enough of the time | Programs smell OK if continuously disinfected by public relations | Staff confused and disheartened by program smell | Programs stink despite use of all program funds for public relations |
| ORGANIZATION | Recieves directives from God | Receives directives from unknown geniuses and social prophets | Staff strive continually to implement contradictory directives | Majority of staff unable to identify to whom they report or why they are employed | Staff unable to read or understand directives; activities confused with those of opposing organizations |
| REPUTATION | Walks with God | Annual report regularly wins international book award (fiction) | Annually cited for voluntary action award by political or social leader (ex-offico president of the organization) | Reputation carefully maintained by bribes to media | Staff members rejected by friends, family and pets |
| AFFILIATIONS | Affiliated to all known organizations, including itself | Contact considered by potential affiliates to be culmination of program activity | Increase in number of affiliqtes is principal policy concern of organization | Potential afiliates consider contact to be "kiss-of-death" | Organization's existence unknown to all, including membership |
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