Ha Nguyen MHR 318 Due: Wed 01/11/2012 Critical Thinking A common refrain among executive is People are our

most important asset. Relate this statement to any two of the four perspectives of organizational effectiveness presented in this chapter. Does this statement apply better to some perspectives than to others? Why or why not? According to the textbook, four perspectives of organizational effectiveness are when the organizations have a good fit with their external environment, when their internal subsystems are configured for a high performance workplace, when they are learning organizations, and when they satisfy the needs of key stakeholders. In my opinions, I think people are the important elements which contribute to the effectiveness of an organization in the organizational learning perspective and the configuration of internal subsystems for a high performance. First of all, knowledge is the most valuable core which organizational effectiveness depends on and people can only acquire knowledge. Besides, only people know how to store and use their knowledge efficiently and valuably. People are flexible in learning knowledge. Even though they store a huge amount of knowledge, they still learn and select effective knowledge which is helpful and valuable for their organization effectiveness. People can observe or do experiment to find a better way for their organization. They know how to apply the good knowledge to make their organization successful and adjust their situation better. People actively have an important role to create and spread the effectiveness to their organization. Secondly, people are important for the configuration of internal subsystems for a high performance in organization. Subsystems are those small parts of a large system. It is can understand the part of transformation process which collects and uses input to transfer product to output. High performance is the effective output which proves that the process is successful and people can do well in their performance. People are the only one factor that organization cant keep consistently. Peoples performance is not

always the same and effectively, but changing day by day. Keeping the consistent high performance in organization is not easy. Because people are also dealing the transformation process from input into output, they understand clearly the importance of these connections which compose to organizational effectiveness. People are the determined group which builds up the organizational effectiveness. However, their roles in last two perspectives are not as much effective as the ones I discussed above. External environment and stakeholders cant be satisfied easily by people, important asset. People can only affect them or lead them to the way which is good for the organization. Moreover, they are the external element which people cant control.