Inside an Organizational Life Cycle
Inside an Organizational Life Cycle
Benefit from the development of information technology, we have entered an informational age. In a general, according to Dr. Henryk Sterniczuk, in order to success in the new informational age, the key elements are speed, flexibility, integration, and innovation.
As leaders or managers, an essential concept, organizational life cycle, should be known ahead. Just like an organism, an organization will experience born, growth, maturity, and death those four stages. Therefore, the main task for leaders and managers of organizations is trying to maintain and extend the maturity stage and finding a better solution to make their organizations can continue develop. This paper will explore the Daft’s Organizational Life Cycle theory, Handy’s Sigmoid Curve Theory, and an case study about Motorola.
Daft’s Organizational Life Cycle Theory
Richard L. Daft cited the organization stages of development in his book Organization Theory and Design from Robert E. Quinn, Kim Cameron and Larry E. Greiner. This theory includes four stages of an organization.
First is the “entrepreneurial stage”. During this stage, an organization first emerges to the market and tries to survive by providing its own products or services. Generally, the owners are the controllers of the enterprise. They focus on how to enhance the viability of their organizations. Hence, the work hours are long and they control their companies based on their personal supervision. As a result, informal and less bureaucratic are the characteristics of the organizations in entrepreneurial stage. The key point in this stage is whether the enterprise has a wise leadership. As the enterprise grows, the amount of employment grows. The owners face to the challenge issue about a scientific management if they belong to the creative and technically oriented people. In another word, they may lack the experience to manage their enterprises. Thus, to deal with the first crisis, they can either
Benefit from the development of information technology, we have entered an informational age. In a general, according to Dr. Henryk Sterniczuk, in order to success in the new informational age, the key elements are speed, flexibility, integration, and innovation.
As leaders or managers, an essential concept, organizational life cycle, should be known ahead. Just like an organism, an organization will experience born, growth, maturity, and death those four stages. Therefore, the main task for leaders and managers of organizations is trying to maintain and extend the maturity stage and finding a better solution to make their organizations can continue develop. This paper will explore the Daft’s Organizational Life Cycle theory, Handy’s Sigmoid Curve Theory, and an case study about Motorola.
Daft’s Organizational Life Cycle Theory
Richard L. Daft cited the organization stages of development in his book Organization Theory and Design from Robert E. Quinn, Kim Cameron and Larry E. Greiner. This theory includes four stages of an organization.
First is the “entrepreneurial stage”. During this stage, an organization first emerges to the market and tries to survive by providing its own products or services. Generally, the owners are the controllers of the enterprise. They focus on how to enhance the viability of their organizations. Hence, the work hours are long and they control their companies based on their personal supervision. As a result, informal and less bureaucratic are the characteristics of the organizations in entrepreneurial stage. The key point in this stage is whether the enterprise has a wise leadership. As the enterprise grows, the amount of employment grows. The owners face to the challenge issue about a scientific management if they belong to the creative and technically oriented people. In another word, they may lack the experience to manage their enterprises. Thus, to deal with the first crisis, they can either
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