It posits that individual behavior can be understood and predicted using engineering's basic model of: This offers advantages over the more typical psychological approaches.
For example, life requires a person to navigate a host of relationships with people and things.
They live in the same house, drive the same car, put the same children to bed in the evening and go to work to the same place each morning.
This stability allows people to perfect a strategy that works in their typical situations.
Since people tend to reuse things that work, this strategy becomes their general approach.
Unless a way can be found to speed the chemical reactions between the neurons in the brain the result will always be the same.
The survey is designed in a way that creates ratio measurement (exact, like a ruler).
This contrasts more typical ordinal measurement (e.g., rank ordered – big-bigger-biggest or none-some-lots) used by most other tools.
Standard computer programs in areas like learning, sales, leadership, change management and career direction are available.
Exact measurement allows "I Opt" infer probable outcomes embedded in a relationship of groups of people.
It analyzes the leader-group match and produces specific counsel for the leader to consider in guiding the group.
This means that the benefits can accrue quickly and will typically increase over time as the interaction patterns are refined.
This level of analysis uses the "I Opt" individual and group analytical components as investigatory tools.
Leaders also act as a corridor carrying information from the larger group back to their local one.
This ability to focus on points of maximum effect reduces the cost and improves the timeliness of change.
Alter the relationships of the groups and/or leaders and corporate culture can be changed in any direction desired.
The non-judgmental nature of the reports means they can be and are used from the Board of Directors to factory floor work groups with equal positive effect.
The various "I Opt" individual analyzes are used as a component of educational programs in areas like leadership development, learning and career guidance.
Overall, organizational engineering gives a way to understand, measure, predict and guide human behavior for both individuals and groups.
Its objective is to produce visible, positive results of significant consequence and magnitude.
It is able to consistently accomplish this objective in any situation that meets the mutual dependency criteria characteristic of goal directed organizations.
For example, three successive issues outline the origin and methods of control of Corporate Culture.
Salton periodically holds seminars in Ann Arbor, Michigan, that cover the theory and application of organizational engineering in depth.
The seminars are typically restricted to 10 people and some experience with OE technology is preferred but not required.