companies gain in return supportive work attitudes and high performance. Companies like Dell‚ Microsoft‚ Intel and Motorola are quoted for developing career paths and investing heavily in training and development to increase employees’ value to the organization and build a strong culture. One way of building a strong culture adopted by many companies (some deliberately‚ some accidentally) is to develop organizational ceremonies‚ rites and language. These help people to learn about and take on board
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References: Gastil‚ J. (1993). Democracy in small groups: Participation‚ decision making‚ and communication. Philadelphia‚ PA: New Society Publishers. Mumby‚ D. K. (1988). Communication and power in organizations: Discourse‚ ideology and domination. Norwood‚ NJ: Ablex. Pfeffer‚ J. (1981). Power in organizations. Boston: Pitman. Aarts‚ H.‚ Dijksterhuis‚ A.‚ & Custers‚ R. (2003). Automatic normative behavior in environments: The moderating role of conformity in activating situational norms. Social Cognition
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Metaphors of Organizations "All theories of organization and management are based on implicit images or metaphors that persuade us to see‚ understand‚ and imagine situations in partial ways. Metaphors create insight. But they also distort. They have strengths. But they also have limitations. In creating ways of seeing‚ they create ways of not seeing. Hence there can be no single theory or metaphor that gives an all-purpose point of view. There can be no ’correct theory ’ for structuring everything
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Learning Organization: Answer to Organizational Growth Introduction Organizations are established to fulfil various needs of the people. The organizational objectives could be achieved via the organization’s growth-oriented mechanism which is inevitable in today’s competitive world. However‚ the most important factor which needs to be taken into consideration towards achieving the objective is the people or staff members who directly have impact on the productivity of the product or services
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In POLS2017‚ the problems arising in Australian politics have been demonstrated with a decision-making exercise‚ to educate students on how a political system is formed and executed in Australian society. The issue that was debated was whether student participation and engagement in the subject should be assessed. Thus‚ in tutorials a political process was designed to decide on a participation percentage. Issues in the Australian political system such delegating representation for citizens and youth
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Literacy and the Politics of Education This article‚ Literacy and the Politics of Education written by C.H Knoblauch was written to express his feelings on how America is becoming illiterate ever since a new era of technology was introduced in 1960. Knoblauch believes that the few who are literate will succeed in life‚ and that the rest of general society who are illiterate will have trouble finding success in their future endeavors. He has taken on this subject because of his frustration on his
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In the years following the Civil War‚ the idea of laissez-faire would become popular among many presidents. The Presidents from the end of the Civil War until the 1890s are often called “The Forgettable Presidents.” They took little action and politics and government was largely dominated by Congress. Many issues would arise during this period‚ including the practice of patronage‚ the abuses of the railroads‚ the rise of trusts and monopolies‚ and issues concerning currency and the money supply
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Ancient Roman politics‚ religion‚ and entertainment all played a major role in how the Roman forum was organised and what buildings were built and arranged. This can be seen in many buildings created by the leaders at the time‚ such as Julius Caesar‚ as they are based around these three aspects of Roman society‚ and it shows the significance the forum had in relation to specific buildings. The Roman senate was the body of the political aspect of Rome‚ and this was significant to the Roman forum
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JOKO1102 Introduction to Management and Organization Bureaucracy Fabrizio Bertoglio fbertogl@ulapland.fi (Numbers of words 6952) Introduction As Etzioni puts it “we are born in organisations‚ educated by organizations‚ and most of us spend much of our lives working for organisations”. This simple sentence let us understand the importance of bureaucracy in our daily life and the reason that push me to study them. I’ve been interested in it and decided to more deeply study the characteristic
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MONEY AND POLITICS IN NIGERIA Since the return to electoral politics in 1999‚ and particularly after the 2003 general elections‚ Nigeria ’s political parties have been criticized by the media‚ academics‚ observers and the electorate for corrupt and unbridled use of money in politics. The anti-corruption initiatives of the administration of Chief Olusegun Obasanjo provided a suitable environment for some civil society groups to engage governments and other stakeholders on the issue of corruption
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