Assignment for Organisational Behaviour Unit 2014-15 The assignment for this unit is to prepare an outline or ‘treatment’ for a 30 minute documentary film for television on a topic from this unit which interests you. A treatment is a description of your documentary‚ in prose‚ which guides the reader through content and tone. Usually they are written to sell films to producers. Your treatment should include the following: 1. Title (what are you going to call your documentary) 2. The pitch (what
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intangible aspects of the way employees think. Organisational culture can be defined as ‘a pattern of shared assumptions invented‚ discovered or developed within an organisation as it learns to cope with problems or external adaptation and internal integration’ Organisational climate is ‘a characteristic ethos or atmosphere within an organisation at a given point in time which is reflected in the way its members perceive‚ experiences and react to organisational context. There are different techniques
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Country: Trinidad Student Group Summary – Unit 7- Managing Change and Innovation Group Name: The Cliché Student Members: Submission Date: 28th July‚ 2014 Topic: “Critically discuss types of organisational change and why changes in people and culture are critical to any change process‚ illustrate researched and referenced examples.” “Using current researched and referenced examples‚ critically discuss contemporary issues in managing change” Types of Organizational Change
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people have difficulty with it Problem identification is not just the first step in decision making: it is the most important There are five most widely recognised concerns. Stakeholder framing: attention-based theory of the firm: states that‚ organisational decisions and actions are influenced mainly by what attracts management’s attention‚ rather than by objective reality. Mental mode: if an idea does not fit the existing mental mode of
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1. Compare and contrast transactional and transformational leadership styles in contemporary organizations in western societies. Is one style superior to the other? Please explain and support your answer. 1860 Words Introduction Transactional and transformational leadership were concepts introduced by Burns (1978) in his treatment of political leadership. Transactional leadership puts its focus on the interaction between leaders
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Hanoi urged to look for suitable models for traditional markets Upgrading the operational traditional markets into modern ones is a must. However‚ it is necessary to find out a suitable model for the new markets. Hanoians refuse to go shopping at modern markets Despite the failures‚ Hanoi authorities still insist on renovating the traditional market network‚ trying to turn them into modern markets‚ suitable to a modern capital city. Hanoi’s initiative of setting up building blocks for all traditional
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organisation reflects the whole picture of the strategy will motivate them‚ keep them loyal and increase the global performance. Drucker devised a five stage process‚ each stage with its challenge and how to be addressed. First stage is setting the organisational objectives (Mission Statement and Vision) subsequently clear goals and targets need to be made available and understood by all employees. By having employees participate in the goal setting‚ they
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what extent can organisational culture be managed? Is organisational culture critical to the success of an organisation? Peter Anthony (1994) asserts that the pursuit of change in a cultural sense has been considered synonymous with the pursuit of excellence for organisations. It is true that a wide variety of management practitioners view the control of organisational culture as something both possible and necessary for organisational success (Brown 1993). A survey of organisational practices of
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Organisational Behaviour and Leadership Index: 1. Executive summary 2. Comparing Maslow’s theory of motivation with Skinner’s reinforcement theory in view of critique of each theory with special reference to the South African workplace. 3. A critical evaluation of the similarities and differences between reinforcement and the expectancy theories of motivation. Motivating a choice as to which one has the mist relevance to explaining the work motivation of employees in South Africa
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Mintzbergs Model on Organisational Structures The Five Parts This note summarises the key features of Henri Mintzbergs theory on the structuring of organisations‚ which he presented in his book The Structuring of Organisations and Structure in 5 ’s: Designing Effective Organizations in the early 1980s. According to Mintzberg organisations are formed of five main parts: Operating core Those who perform the basic work related directly to the production of products and services Strategic apex
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