CHAPTER 1: ORGANIZATIONS AND ORGANIZATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS LEARNING OBJECTIVES 1. Explain why organizations exist and the purposes they serve. 2. Describe the relationship between organizational theory and organizational design and change‚ and differentiate between organizational structure and culture. 3. Understand how managers can utilize the principles of organizational theory to design and change their organizations to increase organizational effectiveness. 4. Identify the three principal
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Course: MGT (Organizational Development and Change) Semester 2‚ 2013/2014 Session Term Paper/Project: You are assigned a project and the report is to be submitted as a group. Each member has to fully participate in preparing this project. You are to approach an organization and apply what you have learnt in this course by carrying out the following activities: 1) Identify and obtain permission from an organization in carrying out OD consulting work by identifying area(s) in the organization
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Introduction The theories of `modern’‚ ‘symbolic interpretive’‚ ‘critical theories’ and `postmodern’ are commonly used in intellectual debates on the studies of organization and these various theories are interpreted as perspectives. In this paper I argue that what distinguishes each theory can be understood by its differences in thinking style‚ each having it’s own inclination of ontological commitments and theoretical fixations. Modernism acknowledges the existence of reality regardless of whether
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Organizational Change Plan Electronic Health Record or EHR‚ is an electronic record of patient health information that includes demographics‚ progress notes‚ medications‚ vital signs‚ past medical history‚ and any other pertinent data that relates to a patient’s health record ("Himss"‚ 2012-2013). Electronic Health Records make clinical workflow more effective and efficient as well as provides monetary incentives from Medicare and Medicaid for those organizations that implement the use of these
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Organizational Change Organizational transformation is required with major business change initiative and it impacts most of the organization. It fundamentally changes the structures and ways of doing business. Since it is large in scope‚ it is difficult to accomplish. The success of the business initiative is dependent on the success of the organization transformation. For the organization transformation to occur a change process must be utilized. The change process insures that there is acceptance
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Today’s business environment requires organizations to undergo change almost on a daily basis in order to remain competitive. These changes are typically unplanned and gradual. The content or what to change that I identified in my personal case is the shipping method for service parts that are exported to Europe. This particular type of change is referred to as an evolutionary change which is an ongoing‚ evolving process. The process of changing the shipping method for export service parts is with
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Speculating the Limits of Theory by Malini Foobalan As a second year architecture student‚ I find myself speculating about things that I never thought I would. The question to myself in fact‚ is why I care questioning‚ and what is it that has made me come up with such questions. Is it the influence of people around me‚ my developing critical thinking or‚ is it an arbitrary questioning that a typical architecture student would engage in? One of my favorite questions is
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Andrea K. Rivers ORG6503 : Organizational Theories & System Instructor: Kathleen Henry September 24‚ 2011 Introduction The owner of Creative Colors has taking my advice regarding restructuring and downsizing the company. The organization is now operating much more efficiently and has seen revenues begin to climb in its retail stores. With the improving economic climate in the region and the growing strength of the U.S. dollar compared to the Canadian dollar‚ the owner now sees an opportunity
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organisational theory perspectives assist us in acquiring different understandings of Apple‚ its organisational networks and influence? In this essay you must use at least two perspectives to analyse Apple. Success is because of outsourcing. Network and influence meta-therotetical Environmental contingency theory‚ insisutitional theory or stake hodlder theory or enacted envinrment to discuss perception of its envionment. Introduction Tell them what you are doing View through diff organizational network
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There have been numerous studies regarding how the influence of technology has brought about change to the structure of an organization as well as its processes. Many of the studies have concluded that the organizational structure is strongly affected by the principal technology which the organization uses. (Volti‚ 2005) Technology‚ in simple terms‚ is seen as the conversion of inputs into outputs using machines‚ equipments and processes. It is a system based on the use of knowledge and organization
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