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The SPELIT Power Matrix

June Schmieder-Ramirez, Ph.D. and Leo Mallette, Ed.D.

Pepperdine University

Table of Contents

Introduction       ix

Editors’ Acknowledgments.......................................................................................................... xiii

Author Biographies.................................................................................................................... xvii

Part I. Why SPELIT?.................................................................................................................... 1

1.                  The Theoretical Foundations of SPELIT............................................................................ 3

2.                  Integrating Adult Learning and the SPELIT Analysis Methodology................................... 13

Part II. The SPELIT Environments.............................................................................................. 25

3.                  The SPELIT Model........................................................................................................ 27

4.                  On the Social Aspects of Organization: “The Human Side of Enterprise”...........................33

5.                  Political Environment....................................................................................................... 57

6.                  Assessment of the Economic Environment........................................................................ 67

7.                  Assessing the Legal Environment..................................................................................... 77

8.                  Analyzing the Intercultural Dynamics Within an Organization............................................. 95

9.                  The Technology Component of the SPELIT Model........................................................ 111

10.              Environmental Epilogue................................................................................................. 133

Part III. Applications................................................................................................................. 139

11.              Applications, Formats & Examples................................................................................ 141

12.              An Organizational Example............................................................................................ 157

Final Conclusions...................................................................................................................... 167

The SPELIT Power Matrix

Abstract

An early political observer wrote “The first opinion to be formed of a prince and his intelligence will depend on the men we see around him (Machiavelli, 1515/1947, ch. XXII, para. 1). A variation of this could be interpreted as: An organization can be evaluated by its environment. This article provides an analysis method to evaluate the environment of an organization, individuals, situations, a physical community, or a symbolic/virtual community such as a professional society.  This technique is intended for practitioners doing a market analysis or diagnosis prior to implementing transitions or interventions and can be used by undergraduate students to seasoned practitioners. This paper will show how this aligns with established and more current theories and will delineate a new environmental analysis technique. SPELIT^©  (hereafter: SPELIT) is used to systematically analyze the social, political, economic, legal, intercultural, and technological environments (Figure 1).

The social environment involves people-to-people interactions; political revolves around power; economic is the production and consumption of resources; legal involves contracts and the law; intercultural considers factors collaboration in a global setting; and technology interprets the advancements of the scientific revolution. The SPELIT environmental analysis method and predecessor versions were originated and are copyright by June Schmieder-Ramirez, Ph.D. Rights to copy or quote this material is granted when a proper source reference is listed on each page, section, or graphic utilized.

Figure 1. Different environments analyzed by SPELIT

This technique is intended for practitioners doing a market analysis or diagnosis prior to implementing transitions or interventions and can be used by undergraduate students and seasoned practitioners. This paper showed how this aligns with established and more current theories and delineated a new environmental analysis technique that is used to systematically analyze the social, political, economic, legal, intercultural, and technological environments.

References

For more information, see the amazon.com website:

http://www.amazon.com/SPELIT-POWER-MATRIX-Organizational-Environment/dp/141967191X/

or contact the author at: Mallette@IEEE.org