Six box model

Submitted To : Sukhwinder Kaur

Submitted By : Ramandeep Kaur
 Six box model
Marvin Weisbord proposed one of the earliest diagnostic models known
as six-box model. This model represents a particular way of looking at
organisational structure and design. It gives attention to issues such as
planning, incentives and rewards, the role of support functions such as
personnel, internal competitions among organisational units,
partnerships, hierarchies and organisational control, accountability
and performance assessment.
 Six box model
PURPOSES

RELATIONSHIP STRUCTURE

LEADERSHIP

HELPFUL
MECHANISM REWARDS
 Purposes
How clear organisational members about the
organisation's purpose and mission? How supportive are
they of the organisation's purpose and mission.

What 'business'
are we in?
 STRUCTURE
How adequate is the fit between the organisation's
purpose/mission and the internal structure that is designed
to serve that purpose.

How do we
divide up the
work?
 Rewards
What are the similarities and differences between what the
organisation formally rewards and punishes and what
organisational members actually believe they are rewarded
or punished for doing.
Do incentives
exist?
 Helpful mechanism

Which processes and procedures in the organisation

(planning, budgeting, information systems, etc.) actually
help organisational members do their work and which of
them hinder more than help.
Have we
Adequate
Coordinating
Technologies?
 Relationship
For this box, Weisbord was concerned with three categories: between
individuals; between and among groups, units and departments and so forth
and between the person and the requirements of his or her job. He argued that,
diagnostically, first, one should consider the quality of these relationships and
then one should consider the adequacy of the models for managing and dealing
with conflict.

How do we
manage
conflict?
 Leadership
This box is at the centre of the model because Weisbord
believed that organisational leaders' jobs are to watch for
blips on the radar screen regarding each of the other five
boxes and to maintain a balance among them.

Does Someone
Keep the
Boxes in
Balance?
Thank You