Chapter #1: What is Organizational Behavior? Manager: An individual who achieves goals through other people. Organization: A consciously coordinated social unit‚ composed of two or more people. That functions on a relatively continuous basis to achieve a common goal or set of goals. Q1: What is the importance of Interpersonal Skills? 1. Lower turnover of quality employees. 2. Higher quality applications for recruitment. 3. Better financial performance. Q2: What do Managers do in
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efficient design of structure of any organization requires the analysis involving some parameters and hypothesis. The main factors presented by MINTZBERG with the respective hypotheses (from H1 to H16) associated to the organizational configurations structures are the following: - Related to the age and size of the organization. H1: How much older‚ more formalized will be the behavior of the people from the organization. H2: The organizational structure reflects the time of the sector. H3: How much bigger
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Benefits & Disadvantages of a Functional Organizational Structure The functional organizational structure groups employees according to broad business activities‚ resulting in departments such as finance‚ marketing and production. These departments might be further divided‚ depending on a company’s size and needs. Departmental managers supervise a wide base of employees below them. These managers are in turn supervised by more-powerful managers‚ who answer to one powerful boss‚ perhaps a CEO
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Organizational culture influences many aspects of workplace life. A workplace with strong beliefs‚ values‚ behaviors‚ ideas and expectations define an organization. Well-communicated beliefs‚ values‚ ideas and expectations influence employee’s behavior and determine how employees communicate with others throughout the organization‚ thus defining the organization’s culture. Over the years‚ the topic of organizational culture has been studied in many disciplines from anthropology to sociology. A prominent
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Lesson 9 a) The organizational structure of Bit o’ Fizz is a functional structure that consists of each employees interacting with those in their department. The company’s president‚ R. Simpson believes that the only time employees need to interact with each other is during formal meetings. The organizational structure is appropriate for this firm because each position has a specific task they need to fulfill. Using a functional structure keeps a company organized by having skills focussed on specific
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Organization Theory – Alibaba case: “Why organizational structure affected Alibaba’s IPO” Introduction and Historical Overview Over recent years the external environment and the marketplace have become increasingly dynamic and competitive‚ with progressive consolidation of the market leaders and continuing need of companies to adapt their structure towards our demanding society. This trend has led Alibaba Group Holding ltd. to conduct some organizational considerations before being listed on the
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Organizational structure Organizational structure may be defined as the system of relations that subsist among a variety of positions and position holders. Formal structure is a blueprint of relations that has been knowingly deliberated and put into action. It includes a formal chain of command of power as well as policies and procedures and other premeditated attempts to control conduct. Wal-Marts organizational structure consists of a divisional structure. A divisional structure has three different
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Restructuring the organizational structure at Kimberly-Clark In 2003‚Kimberly-Clark the maker of paper products including Kleenex‚ Haggis ‚ and Depends‚ announced it was creating a radical new structure to shore up parts of its business that were performing poorly by restructuring its product into three categories .The categories were” grow‚” “sustain‚” and “fix”-somewhat unconventional categories. They weren’t devised based on product type‚ customers‚ or the geographic location is which Kimberly-Clark
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(sense of belonging‚ love)‚ esteem needs (self-esteem‚ recognition status) and self-actualization. The latter is used more in modern companies that want to see their employees do well and grow within the company. Organizational behavior has come far from the time of lincoln. Organizational Behavior is the study of individuals and their behavior within the context of the organization in a workplace setting. It is an interdisciplinary field that includes sociology‚ psychology‚ communication and management
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The U.S. Department of Education is an agency set up by the federal government to establish policies and regulations for administrators‚ and coordinates many federal aids to education. It assists the president in executing his educational policies. The Department of Education purpose is to assist America’s student’s‚ and to make sure everyone has equal access to education. When congress passed the public law in 1979 creating the Department of Education it also declared these purposes; to strengthen
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