Organizational systems and excellence at Antioch Baptist Church

Organizational Excellence and Change: Antioch Baptish Church

Organizational Excellence and Change

This study focuses on excellence and changes at Antioch Baptist Church. It seeks to establish the grounds with which the church exists and operates as a system and as an organization. This church is based in America with branches in Texas among other states. The most peculiar thing about this church is the large population that it has. There are many other extraordinary characteristics that the church has. Its programs are well elaborated and arranged in such a way that allows the worshipers access sermons at any time that they feel like doing so during the worship days. There are also two services within the weekday.

Content analysis

The church as a system

The systems theory holds the idea that a unit or organization is considered as a system if it has a number of separate parts synchronized and organized to work together in an orderly manner (Alpay, 2010). Systems theory is a school of thought that explains how organizations can smoothly operate within their systems. Ideally, the unit must be composed of a large number of separate but interdependent parts. The parts should be able to achieve a consolidated approach to organizational systems. Therefore, there should be an occurrence of order within each of the departments within the organization such that none of the sectors fails to win the attention of the manager. It is important to ensure that all that surrounds an organization falls into a particularly desirable order (Gentile, 2011).

At Antioch Baptist Church, there are several departments and sessions that are all meant to offer specific services to the faithful. The three most notable sessions include the prayer session, Sunday school lessons, and teaching series. Specific departments that are supposed to deliver on the expected mandate manage all these three sessions. In this case, the faithful are expected to cooperate with the leaders to ensure that the objectives are attained. An element of coordination is also seen in the manner in which the church leaders have divided their roles into specific areas that can be easily attained. The church management wishes to achieve this by using the personnel who have been placed to oversee each of the specified roles possible. It is also seen that the church has been witnessing a number of changes in strategies with the aim of gaining confidence from the followers. Other important aspects of religious activities taking place in the church serve to demonstrate the agenda of systems theory (Gentile, 2011).

Organizational problem

From the many departments and the varied roles that Antioch Baptist Church has, there comes the complexity of having to coordinate them falls at the hands of the general overseer. It is sometimes not easy to deal with the specific roles that have been decentralized from a general point-of-view. However, the members can keep the management on the check. In this kind of management system, it is possible to present challenging questions to the people in charge of the specific tasks in order to keep them accountable. This way, any interested parties in the church can question the leadership by going to the specific departmental heads who can address the problems in a specific mandate (Alpay, 2010).

Recommendations

In order to tackle the challenges mention above, the management can use a consolidated management approach. In such a church setting, much of the power is entrusted to the general overseer who will be able to prevail upon any excesses from the juniors. In the same vein, the groups have to ensure that they perform the very specific role that they were meant to achieve (Gentile, 2011). This will mean that all that they will wish to engage in must receive approval from the head.

Conclusion

Systems theory explains how most organizations operate. According to systems theory, it is important that work be subdivided into specific departments, and a manager be tasked to it. The best way is to bring all the many small departments consolidated and managed from one central position. This prevents the juniors from pursuing an individual agenda. At Antioch Baptist Church, the leadership is organized in such a manner that the general overseer can ensure that all the activities in the organization are organized.