25 Need-To-Know Management Models

Chapter 22

Competing values

• Why use it? The competing values framework is a model for judging the effectiveness of organisations, but it can also be used to assess and define supervision and management development programmes.
• What does it do? Using the model you will gain a better understanding of organisational effectiveness criteria. Based on three organisational dilemmas, your organisation is plotted against one of four basic models of (organisational and managerial) effectiveness.
• When to use it? In an organisational context, the framework can be used in four ways: to develop supervision and management development programmes, to understand various organisational functions and processes, to examine organisational gaps and to diagnose an ...