According to Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini’s Harvard Business Review article, “What We Learned About Bureaucracy from 7,000 HBR Readers,” bureaucracy is destroying more and more value in many health care systems. Great organizations across industries fight bureaucracy by implementing lean management strategies and explicitly structure their leadership systems to connect leaders and teams within the organization to the daily issues of front-line employees (Hamal and Zanini, 2017).
You are assigned to lead the “Break up with Bureaucracy” task force for an organization.
Utilizing Microsoft as the company, develop a 1000-word “Breakup with Bureaucracy Proposal,” which includes your recommended actions or strategies to address bureaucracy in your selected organization and improve organizational performance. Complete the following components in your proposal:
- Formulate a detailed summary of the bureaucratic issue.
- Propose possible solutions that clearly involve relevant employees of the organization.
- Propose possible strategies for implementing the solutions that clearly involve relevant employees of the organization.
- Propose possible strategies for monitoring the solutions.
- Elaborate on why you believe your recommended proposal will be successful in improving the organization’s performance.
- Develop a plan to communicate the progress and results of your proposal.
- Propose the leadership skills required to support the strategic execution of your proposal.
Please cite American based resources due to it being an American company for the latest information.
Source
- Hamal and Zanini. (2017, August 10). What We Learned About Bureaucracy from 7,000 HBR Readers. Retrieved from https://hbr.org/2017/08/what-we-learned-about-bureaucracy-from-7000-hbr-readers
