This milestone is designed to introduce the case study and begin a critical analysis applying knowledge gained within the course. This short paper assignment is the first step in your final project...

Running Head: Organizational Learning        1
Organizational Learning         
MILESTONE 1: ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING
Table of Contents
Introduction    3
Organizational Modeling    3
Current Behavioral Organizational Model    3
Comparison of Organizational Models    4
Differences between the Usage of Organizational Models    4
Comparison of the Impact of Culture on Organizational Models    5
Operations of the Organization    5
Motivational Models in Comparison to the Organizational Modeling Trends    5
References    7
Introduction
    The case study discuses about GM and describes the organization as a one suffering from serious cultural crisis. The unethical culture prevailing in the organization dragged the organization into some serious issues, which could have been avoided way before if the employees and management of the organization were serious about the culture of the organization not just now but over a period of 11 years. The key attributes of the organization as could be identified through the case study are lack of collaboration, shifting of responsibilities, poor discipline and inability to develop and execute the strategies in a well organized and defined manner. Another major attribute that could be identified after going through the case study is that employees are not being motivated and they have a low self-esteem (Wayback, 2014). The strength of organization is that the staff of the organization is skilled enough to identify the issues and the weaknesses are inabilities to resolve problems in a timely manner and inefficient decisions being made. As mentioned in the case study, lack of sense of urgency and low level of responsibility are other major issues of the organization that have been interfering with the decision making abilities of the employees.
Organizational Modeling
Current Behavioral Organizational Model
    The current behavioral organizational model is an autocratic model with poor delegation of responsibilities. The top level management of the organizational culture has most of the control over the employees and employees have a little authority to come up with their ideas and opinions. The management of the organization was not supportive and did...