Lecture 4 Organisational Culture and Change [Stephen P. Robbins & Mary Coulter‚ 2012‚ Management‚ 11th Ed.‚ Pearson‚ Essex‚ England] 1. What is organizational culture? 2. Strong cultures 3. Where culture comes from and how it continues 4. How employees learn culture 5. How does culture affects managers 6. Changing organizational culture 7. Current issues in organizational culture Note: This topic represents the managers’ internal environment‚ thus‚ is a continuation of Lecture 3: The
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Part A: theorizing the organization Organization theory can be observed from modern‚ symbolic interpretative‚ critical and postmodern perspectives that provide us with values‚ distinct beliefs and knowledge. In this essay‚ I will discuss on how modernists and postmodernist perspective differ in their basic ontological and epistemological assumptions‚ different ways of understanding and contributes to different ideas about power and the limits of power in organization. Ontology and Epistemology
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WHAT IS MOTIVATION? Motivation may be defined as the process that account for an individual’s intensity‚ direction‚ and persistence of effort towards attaining a goal. Intensity is concerned with how hard a person tries. This is the element most of us focus on when we talk about motivation. However‚ high intensity is unlikely to lead to favourable job-performance outcomes unless the effort is channelled in a direction that benefits the organization. Therefore‚ we have to consider the quality of effort
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A formal organization structure shows a recognizable chain of command‚ it also has many levels of management. This makes communication slower and decision making harder to implement. it is an organization which clearly defines the authority ‚responsibility and inter relations of people working therein Examples of formal organization Meetings can be formal - with a defined organizational membership‚ an agenda‚ a regular time‚ written minutes etc There are 3 types of formal organization 1. Coercive
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Chief executive officer is the most important figure in strategic managementprocess. S/he plays many roles in an organization. Planning‚ organizing‚leading‚ and controlling are the major parts of management activities that amanager performs. Actually‚ strategic management is the top-levelmanagement. It covers all the management functions because it starts fromplanning such as environmental analysis and strategic choice‚ associated withorganizing and leading in implementation phase‚ and lastly also
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CONFLICT MANAGEMENT Conflict management refers on the way how we approach the other party in a conflict situation. There are main structural approaches such as emphasizing superordinate goals‚ reducing differentiation‚ improving communication and understanding‚ reducing task independence‚ increasing resources‚ and clarifying rules and procedures. Emphasizing Supeordinate Goals The first way to resolve the conflict is to seek and find the common goals. The emphasizing superordinate
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PROCESS CHOICE Characteristics of project‚ jobbing‚ batch‚ flow‚ and process production systems‚ with examples for each. Project‚ jobbing‚ batch‚ flow and process production are the process types used in manufacturing. The figure below shows the trade off between volume and variety of outputs. In choosing one of these systems‚ high volume means low variety and high variety means low volume. (see figure 1) Project processes - The essence of project processes is that they are all different‚ so
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School organization The school organization is the arrangement of the school in a group of people that work together to accomplish group goals. The organization refers to the form of the enterprise or institution and the arrangement of the human and material resources functioning in a manner to achieve the objectives of the enterprise. It represents two or more than two people respectively specializing in functions of each perform‚ working together towards a common goal as governed by formal rules
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ASSESSMENT OF AN ORGANIZATION Assessment of an Organization: u09a1 Wini Ray Capella University Introduction In this paper the learner describes‚ discusses and evaluates an organization in regard to their mission‚ services‚ operational methods for delivering such services‚ community involvement‚ history‚ cultural competence in regard to diverse staff and populations served. Daybreak: Changing Lives‚ Creating Futures This learner interviewed the Chief Operating Officer of an organization in the city
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Question 1 Learning Organization according to Samson & Daft (2009‚ pg. 36)‚ can be achieved by creating an organizational climate that values experimentation and risk taking‚ applies current technology‚ tolerates mistakes and failure‚ and rewards non-traditional thinking and the sharing of knowledge. Discussing the extent of TCS (Tata Consultancy Services) being a learning organization‚ two characteristics most popularized by Peter Senge in his book The Fifth Discipline that can be highlighted
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