FUNDAMENTALS OF ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR (Four hours) CHAPTER ONE- Understanding Organizational Behaviour (one hour) CHAPTER TWO- Effectiveness in organizations (one hour) CHAPTER THREE- Social systems and organizational culture (two hours) Reference: 1. Organizational Behaviour‚ Stephen P.Robbins‚ Timothi A.Judge and Seema Sanghi‚ 12th ed‚ Prentice Hall India 2. Organizational behaviour-Human behaviour at work by John W Newstrom‚ 12th edition‚ McGrawHill 3. Organizational behavior and
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profitability of the guest house. Secondly‚ the internal and external competitiveness are both off the balance and unfair. Senior management would abuse their authorities to hire their relatives and formed clique‚ which promoted unhealthy anti trust organizational culture. External competitiveness was irrelevant to the old SOE employees as the pay was subsided by the government. However this would become very relevant under privatization. Thirdly‚ the corruption of Guanxi not only affected the internal human
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Construction Management and Economics (July 2005) 23‚ 595–607 Architects and contractors: a comparative study of organizational cultures N. A. ANKRAH1 and D. A. LANGFORD2* 1 2 Research Institute in Advanced Technologies‚ University of Wolverhampton‚ UK Department of Architecture and Building Science‚ Strathclyde University‚ UK Received 9 February 2004; accepted 26 January 2005 Conflicts between project participants have been identified in various construction industry reports as being
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organizations arecomposed of people. And the behaviors of people make up the outputs of anorganization. Types of Organizational Change • Strategic changes • Technological changes • Structural changes • Changing the attitudes and behaviors of personnel There are many models in understanding the transitioning of individuals through the phases of change management and strengthening organizational developmentinitiative in both government and corporate sectors. They are 1. ADKAR Model 2. Unfreeze-Change-Refreeze
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COMMENTS ON Van Maanen‚ J.‚ “The Smile Factory: Work at Disneyland”‚ In P. Frost‚ et al (eds.) Reframing Organizational Culture‚ Newbury Park‚ CA: Sage Publications‚ 1991‚ pp. 58-76. A) HOW DOES THIS PAPER RELATE TO OTHER MATERIAL YOU HAVE REFLECTED ON IN THIS MODULE? The ‘Smile Factory: Work at Disneyland’ case study emphasizes a strong correlation with the in-class topics presented throughout the Organisational Behaviour module. The paper is a description of the organisation’s code of conduct
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Associate Level Material Appendix A Clash of Cultures Complete the grid by describing the characteristics listed in the left-side column for the five groups named. | |Native Americans |Northern Colonists |Mid-Atlantic Colonists |Southern Colonists |West Africans | |Political Structure|These societies continued to exist|Many of these were settled by | The Mid-Atlantic colonies had
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wouldn’t use at home. For example at SeaWorld‚ when talking to another co-worker‚ organization culture language would be “Meet me at F.O.P.” To the average person who visits SeaWorld‚ this means nothing to them since they don’t know the language used at the workplace. F.O.P means “Front of park.” Now‚ knowing the definition‚ it makes sense. This is an example talking about in the book of what is organization culture language. In the movie Apollo 13‚ working in NASA‚ they used all sorts of language to communicate
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Portrayals of prehistory in popular books‚ films‚ and television programs are sometimes more interesting for what they tell us about contemporary life than for what they reveal about ancient cultures. In the Clan of the Cave Bear (and the books that followed it) a doomed Neanderthal race is hopelessly outclasses by physically modern‚ culturally advanced "Others." Such portrayals could be labeled as accurate or inaccurate based on current findings. Whether or not these primitive peoples had belief
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environment of an organization are called organizational culture. Organizational culture includes an organization ’s expectations‚ experiences‚ philosophy‚ and values that hold it together‚ and is expressed in its self-image‚ inner workings‚ interactions with the outside world‚ and future expectations. It is based on shared attitudes‚ beliefs‚ customs‚ and written and unwritten rules that have been developed over time and are considered valid. Also called corporate culture‚ it ’s shown in 1. The ways the
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age‚ background‚ race‚ disability‚ personality and work style and is founded on the premise that harnessing these differences will create a productive environment in which everyone feels valued‚ where all talents are fully utilized and in which organizational goals are met.’ The positive benefits of managing diversity 1. Diversity enhances customer relations and increases market share. 2. Diversity enhances employee relations and reduces the cost of labour. 3. Diversity improves workforce
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