Student : Jodie Ann Auld Student Number : S0237988 Course : HRMT11010 Date : 30 April 2013 Version Number : 1 “Political Activity is alive and well in organisations. Critically discuss this statement. What factors result in Organisational Politics and what is the role of such behaviour on other people at work?” Political Activity is alive and well in organisations – one of the biggest killers of productivity is not a lack of innovation‚ productive systems or visionary thinking
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Assignment 1 – Part B – Organisational Theory Organisational design can be defined as achieving the organisation’s goals through changing and constructing the structure of that organisation (Robbins & Barnwell 2002). Organisational environment can be defined as the conditions that could potentially impact the organisation (Robbins & Barnwell 2002).The purpose of this essay is to explore and critically analyse British Petroleum (BP) from the modernist and symbolic interpretive perspectives. This
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Two main types of organisational structure 1. Hierachial structure 2. Flat structure The main hieranchial structure has many layers of management and at times this can cause information to be lost or changed while passing to one person to another. This type of structure is like a wise based triangle and every person in it has a line manager who is responsible for the work done by him‚ this makes communication slow and getting things done takes a great deal of effort‚ modern companies
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Organisational culture is the pattern of assumptions‚ vaules and norms shared by organisational members. The culture of an organisation can affect the operations of a company and how successful it is. Organisational culture contains four basic elements; basic assumptions which are un-said but happen‚ shared values which show what is important in the company‚ norms which the employee should follow and artefacts which show the culture of the organisation. An example of organisational culture
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Outline Goals and Objectives I. Who is the aging workforce? II. Identify the effects an aging workforce will have on business growth and productivity. III. Illustrate how an aging workforce and management can use available technology to retain its aging workforce. IV. What are other businesses doing to keep older employees from retiring? I. Who is the aging workforce? a. Baby Boomers * Baby Boomers Defined: "The 76 million Americans born between 1946 and 1964." (Mosner‚ Spiezle‚ & Emerman
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orientation from officials.’’ (Mullins and Christy‚ 2011) Therefore‚ people who work in a company of bureaucracy structure usually find that their opinion cannot be listened by the management. Max Weber‚ who is a German sociologist‚ also tried to identify about the characteristics of bureaucracy. One of his concepts about structure of organisation are ‘rational-legal’. He treated it as the dominant institution of modern society. He thought it is rational as the organisation is like a well-designed
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Contents Introduction 2 Organisation structure 2 Types of structures 3 Functional Structure 3 Divisional Structure 4 The Matrix Structure 5 Team-based structure 6 Network structure 7 Factors that affect structure 7 Conclusion 8 Bibliography 9 Introduction The purpose of this paper is to explore organisational structure‚ examine the aspects that impact the structure of an organisation and discuss how managers should use this information. Organisation structure The organising process
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with children‚ young people and others involved in their| | |care | |Level |3 | |Credit value |1 | |
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Organisational theory refers to the study of organisations and this includes the study on the way these organisations function‚ the roles they adopt and how the correlation and interaction between people and their work are put together so as to define their relations with the organisation. Thus‚ organisational theory allows organisations to increase their efficiency in the workforce through the reduction of unnecessary organisational problems. The two theoretical perspectives that have been chosen
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ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOUR UNIT- 5 1.Meaning of Organisational culture? The individual personality and its impact on behaviour. Just as individual have personalities. So too do organizations. The organizational personalities are called organizational culture. 2.Define organizational culture? Turnstall defines organizational culture as‚ “A general constellation of beliefs‚ morals‚ value systems‚ behaviour norms‚ and ways of doing business that are unique to each
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