List seven strategies for intervention and regulation adopted by culture management to align employee purpose with organizational purpose.
1) Selection...
Describe the contextual factors that led to the rise of the academic study of organization culture and why it seemed to be the logical way forward at that time?
Describe the contextual factors that led to the rise of the academic study of organization culture and why it seemed to be the logical way forward at...
From the Modernist, Symbolic, and Postmodernist perspectives, explain whether culture can be managed or not?
From the Modernist, Symbolic, and Postmodernist perspectives, explain whether culture can be managed or not?
Yes through Hoffstra's theories, but...
Summarize the Modernist view of organization culture.
Summarize the Modernist view of organization culture.
Modernist view of organization culture is studying the organizations characteristics and defines...
List Hofstede's five dimensions of culture and explain any two dimensions in detail including their impact on organizations.
List Hofstede's five dimensions of culture and explain any two dimensions in detail including their impact on organizations.
Organizational culture...
Explain/define Organizational Culture. How do subcultures that are described as enhancing, orthogonal, counterculture, and silos differ from Organizational Culture?
Explain/define Organizational Culture. How do subcultures that are described as enhancing, orthogonal, counterculture, and silos differ from Organizational...
Explain technological imperative. How do Woodward, Thompson, and Perrow differ on this imperative?
Explain technological imperative. How do Woodward, Thompson, and Perrow differ on this imperative?
Technological imperative means the technology that...
Explain how technology can be used as a form of control in an organization using a Postmodernist perspective?
Explain how technology can be used as a form of control in an organization using a Postmodernist perspective?
Overt form of control: technological...
Using Perrow's typology of how technology influences design, how will routine and non-routine technology affect the social structure of an organization?
Using Perrow's typology of how technology influences design, how will routine and non-routine technology affect the social structure of an organization?
Perrow's...
Explain the rise and acceptance of Management based on Modernist ideas.
Explain the rise and acceptance of Management based on Modernist ideas.
Modernist ideas established the fact that social organization is an arena...
Explain five differences and/or similarities between "Human Relations Theory" and "Scientific Management"?
Explain five differences and/or similarities between "Human Relations Theory" and "Scientific Management"?
HRT is not an alternative to scientific...
What are the advantages and disadvantages of tall and flat organizations from the management/employee/customer perspectives?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of tall and flat organizations from the management/employee/customer perspectives?
Tall structures are vertical...
Describe the different stages that an organization goes through as stated in "Organizational Lifecycle Theory"
Describe the different stages that an organization goes through as stated in "Organizational Lifecycle Theory"
Entrepreneurial stage-is the starting...
Explain the contribution of "Contingency Theory" in general and list in full the boundary conditions that define Contingency Theory while studying organizational structure.
Explain the contribution of "Contingency Theory" in general and list in full the boundary conditions that define Contingency Theory while studying organizational...
Briefly explain the seven differences between mechanistic and organic structure.
Briefly explain the seven differences between mechanistic and organic structure.
The mechanistic structure is based on a more modernist perspective...
Discuss the "Symbolic-Interpretive" view of studying organization-environment relationships.
Discuss the "Symbolic-Interpretive" view of studying organization-environment relationships.
the environment is socially constructed in the interactions...
Summarize the modernist view of the environment.
Summarize the modernist view of the environment.
lies outside the boundary of the organization, provides the organization with resources and absorbs...
Explain "Resource Dependency Theory" and some strategies to manage those dependencies.
Explain "Resource Dependency Theory" and some strategies to manage those dependencies.
The analysis of interorganizational networks that allows managers...
What are the legacies of "bureaucracy" and "scientific management"?
What are the legacies of "bureaucracy" and "scientific management"?
Enormous gain in productivity, jump started the industrial era, rise of the middle...
List the criticisms of "Taylorism."
List the criticisms of "Taylorism."
Braverman argued that scientific management should be understood in terms of its value to capitalist profit seeing...
Explain why one should study organizations as "ongoing processes" of organizing?
Explain why one should study organizations as "ongoing processes" of organizing?
Because organizations are constantly changing and in order for the...
Discuss the differences between the formal and informal aspects of organizations?
Discuss the differences between the formal and informal aspects of organizations?
Formal is previously determined rules and procedures, informal aspects...
Discuss the concerns of bureaucratic dysfunction?
Discuss the concerns of bureaucratic dysfunction?
Goal displacement, lack of communication between sectors, rule by the few that favor those similar...
What characteristics define an ideal bureaucracy?
What characteristics define an ideal bureaucracy?
Hierarchy of authority, treating employee's and customers the same way, constantly adjusting rules...
Explain how are knowledge and power entwined?
Explain how are knowledge and power entwined?
People who have power dictate the course of action in an organization, people gain power by obtaining...
Explain what is meant by the discursive practices and why one should be concerned about it?
Explain what is meant by the discursive practices and why one should be concerned about it?
Power gives legitimacy to create and regulate, it gives...
What is the "modernist grand narrative" according to "postmodernism"?
What is the "modernist grand narrative" according to "postmodernism"?
We can find universal truths that hold true in every situation, it creates the...
Discuss the two key elements of "enactment theory".
Discuss the two key elements of "enactment theory".
(subjective-symbolic perspective) you make your environments real by enacting them. Organizations...
Explain the mechanism through which "social construction" operates.
Explain the mechanism through which "social construction" operates.
Operates through externalization, objectification, and internalization. Externalization...
Explain the difference between "General Systems Theory" and "Socio-Technical Systems Theory."
Explain the difference between "General Systems Theory" and "Socio-Technical Systems Theory."
General systems theory is more law-like and more regulated,...
Explain the "enlightenment philosophy".
Explain the "enlightenment philosophy".
We replaced any superstitions with rational reasoning, knowledge, and truth to explain the world rather than...
Discuss Taylor's approach and assumptions to maximize worker productivity? He believed that workers are naturally lazy and are only motivated by money. He broke down labor into precise time management to maximize efficiency. He was wrong, he did not account for humanistic factors; all people are different.
Discuss Taylor's approach and assumptions to maximize worker productivity?
He believed that workers are naturally lazy and are only motivated by money....
Explain how "formal rationality" is different from "substantive rationality"?
Explain how "formal rationality" is different from "substantive rationality"?
They are different because formal rationality is taking rational steps...
What does Max Weber mean by bureaucratization of social order or the Iron Cage analogy?
What does Max Weber mean by bureaucratization of social order or the Iron Cage analogy?
When you divide up organizations into sectors that are very...
How can capitalism give rise to social conflict according to Marx?
How can capitalism give rise to social conflict according to Marx?
Capitalism promotes division of labor which alienates laborers and creates classes,...
Explain and discuss the postmodern perspective in OT?
Explain and discuss the postmodern perspective in OT?
Questions the modernist view's on organizations in effort to acknowledge that there is not an...
Modernist Perspective vs Symbolic Perspective in terms of ontology, epistemology, and their views on organizations.
Modernist Perspective vs Symbolic Perspective in terms of ontology, epistemology, and their views on organizations.
Modernist perspective is the idea...
How are theories, concepts, and phenomena of interest are linked?
How are theories, concepts, and phenomena of interest are linked?
POI basing something on a , which form concepts around it, and from the concepts...
Why do we need to understand different perspectives in organizational theory?
Why do we need to understand different perspectives in organizational theory?
To get a deeper understanding on anything within an organization by...
Key elements of organizational design?
Key elements of organizational design?
How an organizational element/factor have an effect on performance, design organizational structures and systems...
What is organizational design?
What is organizational design?
Understanding what is happening within and outside your organization to operate efficiently and be competitiv...
Why is organization theory important?
Why is organization theory important?
Understands what an organization is and how it functions. It is needed to help diagnose problems as well as...
How are ethics reflected in the laws?
How are ethics reflected in the laws?
Because the US legal system is grounded on maturity rule the laws are judged to be right or good when they affect...
How does the majority rule principal demonstrate consequences based reasoning in our laws
How does the majority rule principal demonstrate consequences based reasoning in our laws
When laws are made to protect the rights of the majority...
Why do the two forms of ethical reasoning usually result in the same decision and what is the probable cause when they do not
Why do the two forms of ethical reasoning usually result in the same decision and what is the probable cause when they do not
Both forms assume that...
What powers to the courts have one personal or private property is damaged or destroyed
What powers to the courts have one personal or private property is damaged or destroyed
Compel specific actions such as paying damages or issue an...
How are constitutional, statutory, case, and administrative laws created?
How are constitutional, statutory, case, and administrative laws created?
The adoption or amendment of a constitution creates constitutional laws....
How can a single act violate more than one kind of law, such as both civil law and criminal law? Give an example.
How can a single act violate more than one kind of law, such as both civil law and criminal law? Give an example.
A single act may be both an offense...
What determines whether a particular law, statute, ordinance, or regulation is valid?
What determines whether a particular law, statute, ordinance, or regulation is valid?
Any federal, state, or local statute, case law, or administrative...
How is power allocated between federal, state, and local governments?
How is power allocated between federal, state, and local governments?
The federal Constitution delegates powers between the federal and state governments....
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