True or false: diagnosing environmental relationships and the interactions among the various components of an organizational system requires taking “a systemic perspective.”

The answer is TRUE. Diagnosing environmental relationships and the interactions among the various components of an organizational system requires taking a systematic perspective. This view suggests that diagnosing often involves the search for misalignment among the various parts of an organizational system. Alignment is how well a system’s different parts and elements align with each other partly determines it overall effectiveness. This alignment or fit concerns the relationships between the organization and its environment as well as among the components that comprise the design of the organization. Alignment represents the extent to which the features and operations of one component support the effectiveness of another component.