Organization’s Health Check

An organization is like a human body. To be alive, a human body requires all of the important organs to be functional, performable and in good condition. So do organizations, organization have their “organs” too, all of the departments in an organization are the organs of an organization and all these departments are key factors that enabling the organization to be “alive” or we called it as sustainable. When either one of the organs is not functioning, performing or in a good condition, for human such as us, our body will fall into sick and sometimes serious will lead to death. Organization as well, for example, when departments are not performing what should be performed or targeted, it will also leaded the organization to fall into sickness. Organization’s sickness are not similar as human sickness such as flu, fever, cancer and etc but the effect were the same, sickness of organization are deficient, low productivity, ineffectiveness, lack of ideas to move forward, less profits, low sales, not motivated and etc and  these will also lead to an organization to be bankrupt if all of these are not solved properly.

Human like we went for health check from time to time to make sure that there is no sickness, illness or diseases and all the organs in our body are in good condition. Organizations does require a health check from time to time as we do too, to make sure that all the departments are in good condition. The real purpose of getting health check doesn’t only able us to identify sickness, illness, diseases or etc but the true meaning behind is to letting us to get early detection so that we are able to mediate it, resolve it, cure it and most important is to stay alive.

In today’s rapid change economics, conducting health check for the organization is becoming a must strategy. When health check is conducted in an organization, organization is able to identify the “sickness” of their organization such as performance gaps, competence level, deficient and root causes of the problems. And by knowing all these problems, organization is able to mediate it through training, rewards, coaching and many more ways to improve the organization. Thus, organization’s health check is an important business strategy which not only enable organization to get early detection of their problems to resolve or improve it early but also indirectly helping the organization to prepares the organization’s human resource for unavoidable change and also provides opportunity to improve technology, systems, structures, the nature of work itself and to be sustainable in the market.

Organization’s health check is a comprehensive study comprising two phases. The first, diagnostic phase identifies inconsistencies in performance and current competence level, and the second phase maps these performance gaps and competencies by prioritising them in order of role and business requirements. And various of benefits able to gain by conducting an organization’s health check. First, able to clarify crucial organization issues. Second, formulating strategies for sustainability. Third, providing the right solutions and ideas indirectly saving cost and eliminate waste. And fourth, better return of investment (ROI) and providing the best use of limited resources by providing the right solution.

Steps of Conducting Organization’s Health Check

There are  9 steps to conduct an Organization’s Health Check

by Tan Houng Chien