Meaning & use
organizational effectiveness
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Meanings
noununcountablebusiness
the degree to which an organization achieves its goals efficiently and sustains good performance over time
Grammar: Uncountable; use it with verbs like improve, measure, or assess, and no article: 'We measure organizational effectiveness yearly.'
Patterns
- improve organizational effectiveness
- measure organizational effectiveness
- organizational effectiveness of something
The new CEO made organizational effectiveness her top priority.
Surveys and financial data are both used to assess organizational effectiveness.
Poor communication can quietly reduce organizational effectiveness.
noununcountablebusiness
the field of study or consulting practice that examines how well organizations function and how to improve them
Grammar: Used as a subject name, often in academic or consulting contexts, without an article: 'She teaches organizational effectiveness.'
Patterns
- a course in organizational effectiveness
- research on organizational effectiveness
He took a course in organizational effectiveness during his MBA.
Her research on organizational effectiveness focuses on small nonprofits.
Common combinations
- improve organizational effectiveness
- They hired a consultant to improve organizational effectiveness.
- measure organizational effectiveness
- It is hard to measure organizational effectiveness with a single number.
- organizational effectiveness strategy
- The board approved a new organizational effectiveness strategy.
- drive organizational effectiveness
- Clear goals drive organizational effectiveness more than strict rules do.
Synonyms and how they differ
- organizational performance
- Focuses on results and output rather than on how well the organization as a whole functions.
- efficiency
- Narrower; it is about doing things with less waste, not about reaching the organization's wider goals.
Word family
- organizational adjective
- relating to an organization or its structure
- effective adjective
- producing the result that is wanted
- effectiveness noun
- the quality of producing the wanted result
Commonly confused: organizational effectiveness or organizational efficiency?
organizational effectiveness vs organizational efficiency
Efficiency is about doing things with minimal waste; effectiveness is about achieving the right goals, even if more resources are used.
Practice
Which sentence uses 'organizational effectiveness' correctly?
Choose one answer.
'Organizational effectiveness' is uncountable, so it takes no article and no plural. Option 2 wrongly adds 'an', option 3 wrongly makes it plural, and option 4 is ungrammatical.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “organizational effectiveness”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.