1.1. Organizational description Eastern Ontario is vast and varied region with rural and urban habits and settings. The economy is relatively stable acting in the growth of human capital over the last decade. The geographic position presents new opportunities for developing and increasing the social-economic environment. Thus, more jobs and work places are required and, of course, new trained specialists are demanded. The Eastern Provincial University through is services and facilities offers annually about 20.000 undergraduate and graduate students. The structural variables of the university are interrelated focusing on the organizational effectiveness. From the job description point of this paper, it is observable …show more content…
Also, the general areas of success are wished for all students, especially in lifelong pursuit of knowledge. Having the goals and analysing the environment, a plan or a business strategy is formulated. An example for this plan of the university is to maintain a climate for students where they feel valued as individuals and supported in their learning. Another strategic direction is to prepare students and employees to perform in a diverse, multicultural and multinational environment. Task environment and business strategy must fit with the other contextual variables such as technology, workforce and organization size. According to Richard Long, any change in contextual variables determine a change in the reward …show more content…
The weakness of Eastern Provincial University could be:
• lack of economic support for faculty grant
• limited attention on open events without partnership actions
• highly competitive market for faculty and staff, unnecessary bureaucracy
• not enough summer classes and programs
• lack of communication between academic and non-academic staff The opportunities are described as external environment circumstances which can be beneficial for the organization.
The opportunities of Eastern Provincial University could be:
• online education can be a strong opportunity as well as attraction and retaining of foreign people,
• connections between didactic institutions and the large workplace of Eastern Ontario,