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What are the four generic organizational effectiveness criteria and how can leaders prevent organizational decline?

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The issue of organizational effectiveness or OE, has been one of the most sought out yet elusive research subject since the early development of organizational theory. Although it seems intuitively apparent that a measure of organizational performance should be readily available in management literature, but quite the contrary is true. Four key models have been identified in the literature.

One model used production, commitment, leadership, and interpersonal conflict to measure organizational effectiveness. Production was defined as the flow of output from the organization. Commitment was established as a component to measure the degree of attachment to the organization. Leadership was defined as a degree of influence and personal ability, and interpersonal conflict refers to the ...

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