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    Management December‚ 2008 Organizational Culture and Its Themes Shili Sun School of Foreign Languages‚ Ludong University No.186 Hongqi Middle Road‚ Zhifu District‚ Yantai 264025‚ Shandong Province‚ China Tel: 86-535-668-1098 Abstract E-mail: shilisun@hotmail.com As one of the key ‘stable factors’‚ culture within an organization is playing a critical role in the organization’s everyday operations. Although the culture literature has at times focused on the culture of an organization as shared

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    Organizational Behavior Terminology and Concepts Francisca Alexander MGT/307 Organizational Behavior and Group Dynamics September 10‚ 2012 Dr. Chris Mendoza Organizational Behavior Terminology and Concepts An organization is a collection of individuals working to achieve a common purpose‚ and sharing their cultures and norms. Culture characterizes a work environment. Most people pay no attention to how culture affects their everyday behavior. People are one of the most important assets

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    Relationship between Organizational Culture and Performance Management Practices: A Case of University in Pakistan Ul Mujeeb Ehtesham‚ Tahir Masood Muhammad‚ Shakil Ahmad Muhammad Abstract The aim of this study is to expand the base of knowledge and empirically test the relationship between the components of organizational culture and performance management practices. The study adopted the exploratory research approach to explore the impact. In this study‚ primary data was collected through

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    I’d like to know why Barnard College was so harsh to Linda LeClair. Yes‚ I know she lied to them‚ but she just wanted to live off campus and do her own thing. Why is that wrong? Plus‚ when she was confronted she openly told them her real name and that she lived off campus. “After five hours of deliberation‚ the committee announced that as punishment for deceiving the administration about where she lived‚ LeClair would be ‘denied the privilege of using the following college facilities: the snack bar

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    Kotter’s Leading Change Concepts/ Organizational Behavior & Management Concepts XXXXXXXX Webster University MNGT 5590 Dr. Victoria Bohrer May 11‚ 2011 Abstract This paper compares and contrasts the concepts found on John P. Kotter’s‚ Leading Change (1996)‚ book and the concepts presented by John M. Ivancevich‚ Robert Konopske and Michael T. Mattenson’s Organizational Behavior and Management text book. Kotter emphasizes in each step the importance of dealing with human emotions and how

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    Organizational Culture Kelli Beuzard MGMT 312 H1FF-F12 Professor Jason Norton November 27‚ 2012 American Electric Power (AEP)‚ founded in 1906 as the American Gas & Electric Company (Business Insights: Essentials‚ 2012). The organization was created when the structure of the electric utility industry in the United States was changing from small‚ individually owned generator plants to consolidated single systems that served a large area (Business Insights: Essentials‚ 2012). Today AEP

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    Organizational culture and change: Explain how a strategic approach can be taken to deal with employee absence problem? In order to improve the absence problem of the organization‚ Human Recourses (HR) manager have to change both the company policies and employees manner toward the absence problem. So‚ in order to make the change more efficient‚ HR managers can use those change models such as Lewin’s Model and Kotter’s Eight-Step Model. In this case‚ the report will apply Kotter’s Eight-Step Model

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    ------------------------------------------------- PRINCIPLES OF MANAGEMENT ------------------------------------------------- CHAPTER 3: ORGANIZATIONAL ENVIRONMENTS AND CULTURES 1. HOW CHANGING ENVIRONMENTS AFFECT ORGANIZATIONS * Environmental change: The rate at which a company’s general and specific environment changes * Stable environments: the rate of environmental change is slow * Dynamic environments: the rate of environmental change is fast * Punctuated equilibrium

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    The fact and fantasy of organizational culture management: a case study of Greek food retailing Cardiff Business School‚ Cardiff University‚ Colum Drive‚ Cardiff‚ CF10 3EU‚ UK Abstract The management‚ manipulation or interference in organizational culture has become central to many theories and prescriptions of management. However‚ despite frequent prescriptions to manage culture in diverse national contexts‚ little empirical evidence has been forwarded in contexts other than the UK and

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    How Culture Affects Productivity Organizational culture and productivity are closely related. Simply stated‚ productivity is the art of getting the company ’ ’s products and/or services to the customer at the lowest possible cost. But it is more than that - it is related to quality‚ to customer needs and to labour relations. In other words‚ productivity and good management are inseparable. Productivity is a result of motivation‚ and motivation thrives in a good climate. If management is to transform

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