A proper flexible organization provides its work force arrangements where employees are given greater freedom to balance their work and personal commitments such as family‚ higher education‚ community activities‚ religious commitments‚ professional development‚ and general interests. Above is Atkinson’s model of a flexible firm. He argued that firms increasingly seek 4 kinds of flexibility functional‚ numerical‚ pay‚ distancing. Functional flexibility is a qualitative approach to work‚ and
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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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* For both organizations sampled in your investigation‚ compare and contrast Electrolux and LG Electronics Inc. different organizational structures and culture. (1.1) 1. Definitions and type of organization structures * Definition * Type of organization structure * Advantages and disadvantages of different organizational structures 2. Definition and type of culture * Definition * Development of culture? * Characteristics of different organizational cultures 3
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Organizational Adaptation: Choice vs. Determinism By L.G. Hrebiniak & W.F. Joyce; summarized by Tristan Latour Introduction There were two views concerning organizational adaptation: * It’s a process reflecting choice and selection * It’s a necessary reaction to peremptory environmental forces/conditions (Note: in this paper‚ adaptation is interpreted as simply “change”‚ including both proactive & reactive behavior) This paper: 1) Choice and determinism are not two opposite ends
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Empowerment in an organization Empowerments is the process of enabling or authorizing an individual to think‚ behave‚ take action‚ and control work and decision making in autonomous ways. It is the state of feeling self-empowered to take control of one’s own destiny. In an organization‚ empowerment is the redistribution of power and decision making responsibilities‚ usually to employees‚ where such authority was previously a management prerogative. Empowerment is based on the recognition that employee
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structures. It is not a discipline that has more practical relevance in one sector than in another: the methods and approaches of the discipline are being applied in business and government alike. Because of increasingly dynamic environments‚ organizations are continually confronted with the need to implement changes in strategy‚ structure‚ process‚ and culture. Many factors contribute to the effectiveness with which such organizational changes are implemented. Whether the change processes are essentially
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Customer Service Unit one: Understanding the organisation Public Sector organisation - Public sector organisations deliver services to the public‚ examples include the NHS‚ local authorities‚ local council-run libaries‚ schools controlled by local authorities‚ and care homes. Commercial Sector organisation - A commercial organisation usually operates for the purpose of creating a profit from the sale of products and/or service. Third Sector organisation - Third sector organisations
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UNIT 3 RESISTANCE TO CHANGE An important element of any change initiative which is resistance to change LEARNING OBJECTIVES 1. Define resistance to change. 2. Explain the life cycle of resistance to change. 3. Discuss the causes of resistance. 4. Describe the strategies to manage resistance. * WHAT IS RESISTANCE TO CHANGE? Change creates anxiety‚ uncertainty and stress‚ even for those managing change Seldom are there any guarantees that the new approach will work - will deliver the
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In 1971‚ psychologist Phillip Zimbardo set out to create an experiment that looked at the impact of becoming a prisoner or a prison guard. The experiment was to test human behavior when one’s role had been altered into authoritative one. Still powerful after all these years the experiment was the most powerful and popular experiment of all time (O’Toole‚ K). Researches set up a mock prison in the basement of Stanford University building. There were the 24 students out of 70 volunteers chosen to
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Introduction to Organizations and Organization Theory Dr. Carrie Lee MGT B344F (2014 Sept) 1 + Understand the meaning of organization and its importance. + Outline the evolution of organization theory. + Explain what organization theory can do for manager. Dr. Carrie Lee MGT B344F (2014 Sept) 2 + We live in an organizational world + Organizations surround us and affect us + We also affect organizations (intentionally & unintentionally) + Organizations make use of
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