Organizational Effectiveness: An Alternative Perspective

A paradigm is proposed that views effectiveness as the ability of an organization to account successfully for its outputs and operations lo its various infernal and external constituencies. This framework can he used to assess effectiveness by examining organizational outputs and processes in a critical and holistic way. A review of (he existing literatures on organizational effectiveness and a case example are used to develop the proposed framework.

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