Organizational Analysis School of Nursing, University of South Alabama NU 613-813

The general perspective behind the organizational analysis is to simply appraise the development, growth, operations, performance, personnel, and work environment of a specific organization. Employing organizational analysis is beneficial, as it enables top management, leaders, and subordinates to identify various areas of weakness, strength, and opportunities and then discover strategies and actions for eliminating potential challenges and threats. For this paper, our main objective is to conduct an organizational analysis based on Collin’s framework, Edgar Schein's Model, and Polarity Theory to analyze a specific organization that renders mental health services to a larger community. Our paper would also include the analysis of leadership styles, the culture of the organization, and complex adaptive systems. Furthermore, it will also demonstrate how the Hedgehog concept, Flywheel concept, and disruptive innovation have been applied to the organization under study. Complex Adaptive Systems Complex adaptive systems (CAS) concerning healthcare organizations are notable a composite of a dynamic network of interactions or agents, which is adaptable to an evertransforming environment (Martin, 2018). Other scholars also delineate complex adaptive systems as a collection of diversified agents interacting within the healthcare organization, adapting to each other’s activities and other actions (Gomersall, 2018). For example, how clinicians manage uncertainty, psychological and physiological processes based on several rules and practices they have to follow cannot be understood via linear thinking (Pype et al., 2018). In a complex adaptive system, considering health care systems, agent’s mental models and rules they live by within the organizations in which they operate are not fixed, hence the complexity