"dysfunctional organizations" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you are referring to businesses, groups, or other organizations that are unable to adequately or effectively fulfill their purpose. For example, "Due to its inability to properly manage resources, the organization has become increasingly dysfunctional."
The Social Security Administration has not been getting enough help from the Immigration and Naturalization Service, one of the most dysfunctional organizations in the nation.
Race and gender discrimination, paralyzing political partisanship, and dysfunctional organizations plagued by infighting are popping up in so many settings that it is tempting to conclude that tribalism is inevitable.
These often occur in 4) dysfunctional organizations, lacking basic management systems or with systems that are readily bypassed, with a lack of coherent clinical leadership, and with 5) some types of failures occurring repeatedly, thus indicating that "lessons are not being learned" (p 106).
Nothing can cripple a dysfunctional organization like profitability.
How did they become an even more dysfunctional organization after the Maloof family sold the team?
"I don't think in any way it's a dysfunctional organization," said David Wright, the Mets' third baseman.
"You can't have a more dysfunctional organization than we have now," he said of the Board of Elections.
But Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell of Colorado is certain that "people in Olympic circles in New York" want to steal away with some part of the dysfunctional organization.
The result, in the opinion of some baseball executives, is that the Mets have become a dysfunctional organization with too many voices suggesting too many solutions.
That's the part of this that's easy to predict, it's harder to picture where this clearly dysfunctional organization will go from there.
You engineer a 10-game playoff winning streak and guide your franchise -- once the most dysfunctional organization in sports -- to within two victories of hoops's holy grail.
