Fixes that Fail

For this assignment, draw on your previous organizational experience and complete the Events/Patterns/Structure Worksheet on the following slide. Your goal is to identify a "Fix that Failed." Review the Karash (1996) article How to find "Structure," which was presented in the eLecture. Include sufficient detail to describe the situation.

Next fill in the blank template on the third slide, presenting a graphic picture of a Fix that Failed in an organization or situation that you know about. Events/Patterns/Structure Worksheet

Events: What happened?

Patterns & Trends: Draw the graphs. Where are there changes? Contrasts? Or Continuities?

Structure -- Why and How? What would explain the patterns? Make hypotheses. What is the thinking, and what is it's impact?