SELF-ASSESSMENT AND ACTION PLANNING
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Organizational Description

Organizational Environment
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1. a. What are Barton's main educational programs, offerings and services?

1. b. What are the delivery mechanisms used to provide Barton's educational programs, offerings and services?

2. What is Barton's culture? What are Barton's stated purpose, vision, mission and values?

3. What is Barton's workforce profile? What are Barton's workforce groups and segments? What are their key requirements and expectations? What are their education levels? What are Barton's workforce and job diversity, organized bargaining units, key benefits and special health and safety requirements?

4. What are Barton's major facilities, technologies and equipment?

5. What is the regulatory environment under which Barton's operates? What are the mandated federal, state, and local standards, curricula, programs and assessments; applicable occupational health and safety regulations; accreditation requirements; administrator and teacher certification requirements; and environmental and financial regulations?
6. What is Barton's service area?


Organizational Relationships
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1. a. What are Barton's structure and governance systems?
1. b. What are the reporting relationships between Barton's-Board of Trustees and Barton's administration?
2. a. What are Barton's key student segments, stakeholder groups and market segments?

2. b. What are their key requirements and expectations for Barton's programs, offerings, services, and operations? What are the differences, if any, in these requirements and expectations among student segments, stakeholder groups and market segments?

3. What are Barton's most important types of suppliers, partners, and collaborators? What role do these suppliers, partners, and collaborators play in Barton's work systems and in the delivery of Barton's educational programs, offerings and services? What role, if any, do they play in Barton's organizational innovation processes?
4. What are Barton's key partnering relationship and communication mechanisms with suppliers, students and stakeholders?

Organizational Challenges

Competitive Environment
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1. a. What is Barton's competitive position?

1. b. What is Barton's relative size and growth in Kansas' educational sector or markets served?

1. c. What are the numbers and types of competitors for Barton?

2. a. What are the principal factors that determine Barton's success relative to Barton's competitors?
2. b. What are key changes taking place that affect Barton's competitive situation, including opportunities for innovation and collaboration?

3. a. What are Barton's key available sources of comparative and competitive data from within the academic community?
3. b. What are Barton's key available sources of comparative data from outside the academic community?
3. c. What limitations, if any, are there in your ability to obtain these data?

Strategic Context
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1. What are Barton's key education and learning, operational, human resource and community-related strategic challenges and advantages?
2. What are Barton's key strategic challenges and advantages associated with organizational sustainability?



Performance Improvement System
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1. What are the key elements of Barton's performance improvement system, including Barton's organizational evaluation and learning processes?


Detailed Information

1. Do you consider that all employees should be able to answer all of these questions?
   
2. Where is the first place you would look for data/ information about the college?
   
3. How often do you visit Barton's web pages?
   
4. Do you find the information you are seeking?
   
5. How easily do you get to the page you are seeking?



This survey is adapted from the Baldrige National Quality Program Survey: easy Insight.