Managing Organizations 2011-12 A Study of ThoughtWorks Organization Structure Submitted to: Prof. Sourav Mukherji Group 5 ACHAL GUPTA BHUSHAN MASKAY MAYANK UNIYAL RACHITA RASIWASIA SOUMYA PRAVAT NAYAK 1111325 1111340 1111355 1111371 1111386 Preface This report is submitted as a part of group project‚ undertaken for the partial fulfilment of course requirements of MANAGING ORGANIZATIONS. The report contains a study of the organization “THOUGHTWORKS” – an IT software and consultancy firm
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Leading Change in the 21st Century Organization Is there a good way to attack change in organizations? To influence (and maybe even ‘fix’) the complex org cultures that drive the collective behavior of their members? John Kotter gave us perhaps the best-circulated approach for change in his HBR paper that turned into the classic: Leading Change (1996). With the caveat that there are no silver bullets I believe Kotter provides a strong‚ intuitive and timeless approach to grappling with change. Unfortunately
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‘The introduction of Machinery has done more harm than good” Discuss. Nowadays the introduction of machinery has been beneficed and also harmful in some ways. We are actually living in a technological era. Many activities of our daily life depend mainly on machinery such as uses of vehicles as a mean of transport. Machinery is mostly important to satisfy the needs of the human beings. The drawbacks of machinery are that craftsmanship is disappearing since all the manual works are being done
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Marketing Nestles Infant Formula Introduction: • Issue in Question: 1. Nestlé’s marketing of infant formula 2. First world product in a third world country • Marketing dilemmas 1. First world products in a third world market 2. Risk conditions are present 3. Can a product be marketed in an area that it cannot be guaranteed? • Evolution of a public issue 1. In 1970 an organized campaign was established by the Protein Calorie Advisory Group ( PAG) 2. The claim was that: “Nestle pushed
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1. How would you define organization culture? Describe its various manifestations. Using this framework describe the culture of your current class room. Organizational culture is a system of shared assumptions‚ values‚ and beliefs that helps individuals understand which behaviors are and are not appropriate within an organization. It also includes an organization’s expectations‚ experiences‚ philosophy‚ and values that hold it together‚ and is expressed in its self-image‚ inner workings‚ interactions
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“Discuss the relationship between persuasion and attitude change” (25 marks) Carl Hovland et al. created the Hovland-Yale model which studied the relationship between persuasion and attitude change‚ the research focused on the communicator‚ the content of the message and the receiver of the message as they were considered the key features in effective persuasion. Source factors are influential in terms of persuasion‚ and it was found that credible experts are a powerful source when it comes
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Organization as structure vs organization as process Child J. (2005) has argued “Organization has structural‚ processual and boundary-defining facets.” (p.6) Organization as structure and organization as process are organizational choices‚ which are very distinct from each other. Organization as structure refers to ‘basic structure’ in which tasks and responsibilities are distributed among the work hierarchy. The organizational authority is at the same time centralized‚ delegated and standardized
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Faculty of Business and Environmental Studies T1/13 Coursework Assignment Diploma in Engineering Business Management Module: 102KM Business Organization Assignment Title: Types of Business Organizations Date & Time of Submission : Week 10 (22:00) Assignment Weighting : 50% Word Limit : 3000 words Description of Assignment This is an individual assignment and carries 50% of the module weightage. A business can have a number of different types of
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"Archaeology has proved the historicity of the Trojan War." Discuss " he [Heinrich Schliemann] found layers of ruins and two bore unmistakable signs of violent destruction. One of these layers‚ the seventh according to more recent excavators‚ was no doubt the city of Priam and Hector. The historicity of the Homeric tale had been demonstrated archaeologically." - M.I. Finley‚ the World of Odysseus Introduction The Trojan War and its characters are detailed in the writings of Homer‚ Vergil
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Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha is a fictional novel that is written by Roddy Doyle. Doyle is one of the best novelists that have written this book. It won the Booker Prize‚ which is Britain’s highest award‚ in 1993. This book is full of hilarious slang‚ colloquialisms‚ vulgarisms and cursing that is so vibrant and charged that it is almost musical. This book tells of an Irish boy named Patrick‚ who lives in Barrytown‚ Ireland. He and his friends always hang out together‚ but they always find trouble
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