Seven S Model
- Strategy – Plan or course of action leading to the allocation of firm’s resources to reach identified goals.
- Structure – The ways people and tasks relate to each other. The basic grouping of reporting relationships and activities. The way separate entities of an organization are linked.
- Shared Values – The significant meanings or guiding concepts that give purpose and meaning to the organization.
- Systems – Formal processes and procedures, including management control systems, performance measurement and reward systems, and planning and budgeting systems, and the ways people relate to them.
- Skills – Organizational competencies, including the abilities of individuals as well as management practices, technological abilities, and other capabilities that reside in the organization.
- Style – The leadership style of management and the overall operating style of the organization. A reflection of the norms people act upon and how they work and interact with each other, vendors, and customers.
- Staff – Recruitment, selection, development, socialization, and advancement of people in the organization.
