ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR ORGB 3201-05: Spring 2014 Instructor: Marla Baskerville Watkins Class Schedule: Tuesdays and Fridays(3:25-5:05) Dodge 140 Office: College of Business‚ 112 Hayden Hall‚Management and Organizational Development Office Hours: Office Hours: Tuesdays (11-1) E-Mail: m.baskerville@neu.edu REQUIRED READINGS You will be required to read a textbook‚ academic articles‚ news articles‚ and cases that can be retrieved from your coursepacket‚ the internet‚ and Blackboard
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not involve drastic or sudden altering of the basic nature of the organization’s strategy or structure. Whereas revolutionary change is rapid‚ dramatic‚ and broadly focused in order to quickly and decisively find new ways to be effective. 2. What is a business process‚ and why is reengineering a popular instrument of change today? A business process is any activity that cuts across functional boundaries. It is the ability of people and groups to act in a cross-functional way that is the
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Field of Organizational Behavior Multiple Choice Questions 1. Pharmacia is an example of a company that: a. experienced culture clashes as a result of a merger. b. ignored technological advances to its harm. c. is a great employer in terms of human resources‚ but an unprofitable company. d. focused on balance sheets rather than human resources. Answer a Page 2 2. _____ is a structured social system consisting of groups and individuals working together to meet some agreed-upon
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Relationship between Organizational Structure and Culture Since the organizational structure determines how the roles and responsibilities are allocated and how they will be monitored as well as the flow of communication between different levels and sectors‚ it is entirely dependent on the organizations goals and how it wants to reach them. In centralized structures all the decision making power is retained at the top level of management and all the other departments are closely monitored and controlled
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Organizational Justice In today’s developing work life‚ organizational justice is increasingly important to the welfare of the organization‚ managers‚ and employees. Organizational justice shows how employees view the fairness of work-related issues in the workplace and the trust they have in the organization and its management. According to Burge‚ the study of organizational justice is important for three reasons: 1. Justice is a social aspect that strongly affects every-day life‚ whether
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Organizations and Organizational Effectiveness 1. Organization – A tool people use to coordinate their actions to obtain something they desire or value. 2. Entrepreneurship – The process by which people recognize opportunities to satisfy needs and then gather and use resources to meet those needs. 3. Organizational Environment – The set of forces and conditions that operate beyond an organization’s boundaries but affect its ability to acquire and use resources to create value.
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WorldCom: Organizational Culture and Unethical Safeguards Organizational culture is one of four influences whether an ethical or unethical behavior will be made. WorldCom’s demise‚ deliberately overstating their income by $7 billion between 1999 and 2002; and their once valued stock of $180 million becoming nearly worthless‚ can attribute a significant amount of their failure on their “dis”organizational culture. Corporations worldwide who do not think this type of fraud can happen at the hands
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Organizational Structure of Businesses An organizational structure is the formal system of relationships that provides guidelines on how tasks will be conducted‚ who makes important decisions and the reporting hierarchy. Organizational structures of businesses coordinate‚ control and help motivate employees toward the organization’s goals. The most common business structures include functional‚ divisional‚ matrix‚ hierarchical and horizontal. Read more: Organizational Structure of Businesses
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Organizational Perspectives Arthur Cunhs OM8010 Principles of Organization Theory and Practice Dr. Martin-Lewis March 17‚ 2011 Abstract The modernism and post modernism perspectives are beneficial in the successful operation of Wal-Mart stores. Wal-Mart is one of the most successful organizations with stores foreign and domestic making significant profits. Further‚ Wal-Mart applies both of the organizational perspectives for their advantages in areas such as power‚ structure
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On Dialogue‚ Culture and Organizational Learning Article Summary This article explains the importance of dialogue‚ culture and organizational learning as solutions to the context of changes that are occurring nowadays in the organizational world. They are necessary to avoid communication failures and cultural misunderstanding. The problem is that organizations of all sizes tend to break down into subunits of various sorts because of increasing rate of change in the environment such as the growth
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