this thesis is to investigate how the employees in a subsidiary of a successful company perceive their own organizational culture and its connection to the organizational culture of the foreign parent company. This is also our research question. The company we have chosen to perform a case study at is BMW Group Gothenburg‚ subsidiary to BMW AG Germany. Method: This is a qualitative study‚ and in order to investigate the attitudes of the employees we have performed interviews with employees of different
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Organizational culture is the collective behavior of humans who are part of an organization and the meanings that the people attach to their actions. Culture includes the organization values‚ visions‚ norms‚ working language‚ systems‚ symbols‚ beliefs and habits. “Organizational culture refers to the pattern of beliefs‚ values and learned ways of coping with experience that have developed during the course of an organization’s history‚ and which tend to be manifested in its material arrangements
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The study of organizational behaviour enables managers to become more effective at their job. Discuss this statement? Organizational Behavior can be seen as a field of study that investigates the impact that individuals‚ groups and structures have on behavior within an organization‚ to enable applying this knowledge towards improving organizational effectiveness. Organizational Behavior is an important concept for any organization‚ since it deals with the three determinants of behavior in organizations:
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Relationship between Organizational Structure and Culture Since the organizational structure determines how the roles and responsibilities are allocated and how they will be monitored as well as the flow of communication between different levels and sectors‚ it is entirely dependent on the organizations goals and how it wants to reach them. In centralized structures all the decision making power is retained at the top level of management and all the other departments are closely monitored and controlled
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refer to organization climate as corporate culture (Haasen 2003). These qualities are the small things that usually run an organization and make it what it is and what it will remain to be. In any organization around the world‚ the perception that the employees have towards the qualities of an organization really matters. When it comes to management especially the human resource management‚ organization climate has some effects on it. Improving organizational climate was one of the ways to increase
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consequences of structure and profoundly affect the success of the business. What may not be as obvious but is clearly as influential is how organizational structure either supports or blocks employee behavior. There is many an employee who was terminated from one company to become a star in another similar position in a different enterprise. Why? In many cases organizational structure makes it impossible for such a worker to blossom and produce. For example‚ a dedicated but independent-minded employee will
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By Frederik Balfour Guanxi. It’s the first word any businessperson learns upon arriving in China. Loosely translated‚ guanxi means "connections" and‚ as any China veteran will tell you‚ it is the key to everything: securing a business license‚ landing a distribution deal‚ even finding that coveted colonial villa in Shanghai. Fortunes have been made and lost based on whether the seeker has good or bad guanxi‚ and in most cases a positive outcome has meant knowing the right government official‚ a relationship
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Organizational Behavior Terminology and Concepts April 2‚ 2005 Organizational behavior encompasses a wide range of topics‚ such as human behavior‚ change‚ leadership‚ and teams. Organizational Behavior is the study and application of knowledge about how people‚ individuals‚ and groups act in organizations. It interprets people-organization relationships in terms of the whole person‚ group‚ organization‚ and social system. Its purpose is to build better relationships by achieving individual
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Organizational Learning in Lenovo Table of Content Introduction of Lenevo Type of organisation learning Culture towards learning Culture of learning in the workplace Organisational values and attitudes towards learning External and internal forces impacting the culture Policy impacting the learning culture Brief evaluation of the effectiveness of this learning Reference Introduction of Lenevo Lenovo is the world’s leading personal computer company. Lenovo Group
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INDEX I. Organizational Behaviour … 2 II. Motivation …3 * Motivation Concepts * Motivation Theories * Intrinsic Motivation and the 16 basic desires III. Leadership … 6 * Leadership Traits/Qualities * Leadership
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