Organizational Culture and Communication Sabina Dovlati Com530 August 26‚ 2010 Maureen Murthy Abstract Organizational Culture and Communication According to Robbins and Judge‚ authors of Organizational Behavior textbook‚ there are seven primary characteristics which combine and summarize the real meaning of an organizational culture: innovation and risk taking‚ attention to detail‚ outcome orientation‚ people orientation‚ team orientation‚ aggressiveness‚ and stability. Organizational
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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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Organizational change is when an organizations overall strategy for success changes and changes the way in which it operates. Organizations must undergo significant change in order for the organization to develop. Change should be done to accomplish some overall goal. “Usually organizational change is provoked by some major outside driving force‚ e.g.‚ substantial cuts in funding‚ address major new markets/clients‚ need for dramatic increases in productivity/services‚ etc.” (McNamara) There are usually
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There is no single definition for organizational culture. The topic has been studied from a variety of perspectives ranging from disciplines such as anthropology and sociology‚ to the applied disciplines of organizational behaviour‚ management science‚ and organizational communication. Some of the definitions are listed below: A set of common understandings around which action is organized; finding expression in language whose nuances are peculiar to the group (Becker and Geer 1960). A set of understandings
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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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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 theory: companies go through long periods of stability‚ followed by a short complex period of dynamic change (revolutionary
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Organizational Culture Christine Mayers Argosy University Abstract When we look at organizational culture‚ we are looking at the personality of an organization. Culture is basically comprised of the values‚ norms‚ and tangible signs of an organization. Managers and employees of an organization if working long enough with one organization soon sense the particular culture of the organization. Rational and irrational decision making are key when it involves working with different cultures
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TERM PAPER ON ORGANIZATIONAL STRATEGIES AND CHANGE AMAL ALTAF MOHAMMAD ALI JINNAH UNIVERSITY ABSTRACT The purpose of this research is to summarize several strategies and describe how these strategies can help bring about changes in an organization. The authors show how different strategies can be used for successful implementation of change process. The article compares the four level strategies‚ namely functional level strategy‚ business level strategy‚ corporate level strategy and
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Organizational Culture of Starbucks Benjamin A Chesney Com/530 Communications for Accountants January 28‚ 2013 Jon Zimmerman Organizational Culture of Starbucks Starbucks Coffee Company is a worldwide conglomerate. Their specialty is coffee. In addition to working as global leader of coffee distribution‚ Starbucks is also trying to be a global leader in responsibility. They want to show and teach the world that positive thinking‚ conflict resolution‚ and giving back to the community
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Managing Organizational Change By Michael W. Durant‚ CCE‚ CPA The increased pace of change that many of us have encountered over the past ten years has been dramatic. During the late 1980s‚ many of us were grappling with issues that we had never encountered. The accelerated use of leverage as a means of increasing shareholder wealth left the balance sheet of some of America’s finest organizations in disarray. Many of our largest customers‚ that for years represented minimal risk and required
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