Organizational Behavior 15th Global Edition Diversity in Organizations Chapter 2 Learning Objectives After studying this chapter you should be able to: Describe the two major forms of workforce diversity Identify the key biographical characteristics and describe how they are relevant to OB Recognize stereotypes and understand how they function in organizational settings Define intellectual ability and demonstrate its relevance to OB Contrast intellectual from physical ability Describe
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Organizational Diagnosis Organizational Diagnosis is an effective ways of looking at an organization to determine gaps between current and desired performance and how it can achieve its goals. In recent years organizational diagnosis has evolved from a technique used as part of the organizational development process to a major technique in its own right. Effective diagnosis should be an organic process in that as you start to look at an organization and its structures and what it does and
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Organizational structures developed from the ancient times of hunters and collectors in tribal organizations through highly royal and clerical power structures to industrial structures and today’s post-industrial structures. [edit] Organizational structure types [edit] Pre-bureaucratic structures Pre-bureaucratic (entrepreneurial) structures lack standardization of tasks. This structure is most common in smaller organizations and is best used to solve simple tasks. The structure is totally centralized
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Organizational Conflict has been defined in different way by different writers. The common key words which are used in these definitions are frustration‚ incongruence‚ incompatibility and mismatch. There are six levels of conflict: Intra-individual conflict‚ Inter-individual conflict‚ Intra-group conflict‚ Inter-group conflict‚ Intra-organizational conflict and Inter-organizational conflict. Another important organizational concept is the "Organizational Commitment". The four approaches to study
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The article in the January through March 2006‚ volume 31 issue of Vikalpa Journal titled "Organizational Constraints on Innovation and Intrapreneurship: Insights from Public Sector" documents the key organizational constraints hindering innovation and intrapreneurship for public businesses in India. The research was conducted by professionals in the field of business management. In addition‚ at the conclusion of the study the researchers offered insights for improvement. With the results of the
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1. | Question : | Define Organizational Development (OD) according to An Experiential Approach to Organizational Development: | | | Student Answer: | | Comprises the long range efforts and programs aimed at improving an organizations ability to survive by changing its problem solving and renewal processes. | | Instructor Explanation: | Organizational development is a long-range effort and programs aimed at improving an organization’s ability to survive by changing its problems solving
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I. Organizational Decentralization Rationale of Decentralization The term decentralization is often used in business environments and can be defined as the organizational severance and division of power‚ capital‚ and technical procedures and control into multiple units of the business.1 Decentralized corporations make it possible for managers to control without ownership. 4 In decentralized organizations‚ the breakdown is that the president of each unit of a business is on his or her own management-wise
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Organizational Change THE TECHTRON COMPUTERS "WANT TO SURVIVE‚ GO PUBLIC‚ AND THEN WHAT?" CASE Investors (venture capitalists) knew the potential was good for Techtron Computers to challenge the dominant players in the high-speed computing market. They also knew the types of computers Techtron hoped to bring to market were a long shot for success even with their significant financial investment. The four founders of Techtron all had come from large international corporations known for their high-speed
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MM2021 Management & Organization Individual Assignment Introduction In the past decade‚ many scholars have done a lot of research concerning organizational silence. Their main foci are on the kinds of issues that employees felt unable to talk to people above them and the reasons behind why they think that they should not speak up about concerns or problem (e.g. Milliken‚ Morrison & Hewlin‚ 2003). It is‚ however‚ not much research has been done to further analyse the underlying cause of organization
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The Topic of my presentation today is Corporate culture. Let’s start with the definition of culture and corporate culture. 2. slide Organizational Culture Culture is the characteristics of a particular group of people and the symbolic structures that give such activities significance and importance. Corporate culture: The customs‚ rituals‚ and values shared by the members of an organization (company‚ workplace) that have to be accepted by new members. 3. slide The importance of Corporate
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