Web Sight<br> Some effective surfing to help the organization

The pursuit of organizational effectiveness is a task that can be compared with that of trying to hit a moving target. Amongst a number of internal and external variables you will need to consider, and sometimes predict, the impact of these variables on your organization and then proceed to ensure that your company is on its way to achieving true organizational effectiveness. The following links should help you achieve this elusive goal.

Business-Compass
www.business-compass.com
As Business-Compass is a consulting service specializing in human resources and organizational effectiveness, you will not find many practical resources on this site. You will, however, find a useful review of what organizational effectiveness is and why your organization should be pursuing it. From the home page-click on “organizational effectiveness” located on the bottom navigation bar.

City of Winston-Salem
www.ci.winston-salem.nc.us/ooe
The City of Winston-Salem in North Carolina has created a really interesting resource to aid in the pursuit of organizational effectiveness. This site provides a unique approach to soliciting information and resources from a target group in order to review their current processes and procedures. I am sure you will be able to generate some great ideas from this site.

Monitor Group
www.monitor.com
Click on “ideas” from the top of the page and the user is taken to a number of interesting and useful abstracts on topics such as organizational strategy, operations, management, knowledge, learning and more. Many of the abstracts contain links to full articles or other helpful sites.

Western Kentucky University
www.wku.edu/~parryle/BA510Class10
The URL noted above provides a link to an online slide presentation on organizational effectiveness. The presenters’ name and e-mail link are available on the site should you wish to follow up with specific questions.

Conference Board of Canada
www2.conferenceboard.ca/oe.htm
The Conference Board of Canada provides an excellent resource for researching the subject of organizational effectiveness. While the Conference Board of Canada is a membership driven organization, you will still be able to find related links and tools.

Working Papers in Economics
http://netec.wustl.edu/WoPEc/data/Papers/dgrkubrem1996715.html
An excellent article entitled “Organizational effectiveness=corporate performance?” The link above provides an abstract of the paper and also the direct link to the article: which can either be viewed as an HTML or PDF file. The links to the article are found at the bottom of the page under “Select Format.”

Other related Web sites:
•www.oei-edu.com/

•www.kellogg.nwu.edu/student/club/oec/main.html

•www.ruf.rice.edu/~mickey/rcoes/rcoes.html

Rob Horgan is an HR professional and freelance writer. He can be contacted through his Web site, www.robhorgan.com.

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