Organizational analysis

Work domain analysis involves the construction of an abstraction hierarchy (AH) and an abstraction-decomposition space (ADS), which provides a two-dimensional representation of the system under analysis (Vicente, 1999). The AH consists of five levels of abstraction, ranging from the most abstract level of purposes to the most concrete level of form. A description of each of the five abstraction hierarchy levels is given below (Naikar, Hopcroft, and Moylan, 2005)  

The ADS is comprised of a combination of an abstraction hierarchy and a decomposition hierarchy. The decomposition hierarchy uses five levels of resolution, ranging from the broadest level of total system to the finest level of component and comprised of total system, subsystem, function unit, subassembly, and component (Vicente, 1999). Each of the cells within the ADS presents a different representation of, or way of thinking about, the same system for example, the top left cell describes the functional purposes of the entire system (e.g., why the system exists and what its primary purposes are), while the bottom right cell describes the physical components that comprise the system (the people, objects, tools, and technological artifacts used within the system). 

What are the highest level objectives or ultimate purposes of the work system  

What role does the work system play in the environment  

What has the work system been designed to achieve  

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Compliance analysis [52], understandability and availability [22], organizational analysis... 

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Managers are skilled at organizational analysis and understand typical stages of organizational development. 

Allard-Poesi, F. (2005) The paradox of sensemaking in organizational analysis . Organization,... 

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The traditional knowledge bases that undergird the work of health care cannot provide the guidance needed to understand failure in the complexity of the health care system. To build applications that will effectively mitigate harm to patients, a distinct science of patient safety that builds on bodies of knowledge outside health care, primarily human factors and organizational analysis, is needed. 

The study of patient safety is the study of complexity. The study of complexity invites us to understand key concepts that can be applied to patient safety. Basic concepts from the fleld of patient safety are sharp and blunt end active and latent failure the Swiss Cheese Model of Accident Causation slips, lapses, and mistakes and hindsight bias and the fundamental attribution error. Key concepts from organizational analysis, such as normalization of deviance, diffusion of responsibility, tightly coupled work processes, and sensemaking, introduce practical lessons from high-reliability organizations. Application of specific lessons to health care are explored in Chapter Five. 

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Analogous to the organizational analysis component, only limited guidance is available in the literature with regard to what methods should be used for person analysis and exactly what person analysis outputs should contain. Salas and Cannon-Bowers (2001), for example, reported that they found no empirical work regarding the person analysis phase of TNA. 

Training Needs Analysis 1. Perform organizational analysis. 

An example TNA for the organization and example domain is presented here, including organizational analysis, task analysis, and person analysis in the example domain. 

A three-part organizational analysis is used to determine how to target... 

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