Sustainability Embedded Organizational Diagnostic Model

Bilal Bin Saeed, Wenbin Wang

1Dongling School of Economics and Management, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, China 2Department of Management Sciences, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Abbottabad, Pakistan.
Dongling School of Economics and Management, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, China.

DOI: 10.4236/me.2014.54041                

Abstract

Organizational diagnosis is an exercise done to check an organization’s current health. A complete diagnosis not only checks the current health, but also suggests corrective measures. Diagnostic models suggested by others were evaluated in this paper including some of the authors’ previous work and shortcoming i.e. lacking the sustainable development focus in these models of organizational health diagnosis was identified. The main focus of this paper is to incorporate sustainability dimension in the organizational diagnostic model. We therefore propose in this paper an alternative, sustainability embedded model for organizational diagnosis. This model can be used by the organizational diagnosticians to perform a comprehensive organizational diagnosis.

Keywords

Sustainable Organizational Diagnosis, Organizational Health, Diagnostic Models, Sustainability Principles, Sustainability Embedded Organizational Diagnostic Model, Organizational Health and Change Management

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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