What is organizational design?
Understanding what is happening within and outside your organization to operate efficiently and be competitive.
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- List seven strategies for intervention and regulation adopted by culture management to align employee purpose with organizational purpose.
- 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?
- From the Modernist, Symbolic, and Postmodernist perspectives, explain whether culture can be managed or not?
- Summarize the Modernist view of organization culture.
- List Hofstede's five dimensions of culture and explain any two dimensions in detail including their impact on organizations.
- Explain/define Organizational Culture. How do subcultures that are described as enhancing, orthogonal, counterculture, and silos differ from Organizational Culture?
- Explain technological imperative. How do Woodward, Thompson, and Perrow differ on this imperative?
- Explain how technology can be used as a form of control in an organization using a Postmodernist perspective?
- Using Perrow's typology of how technology influences design, how will routine and non-routine technology affect the social structure of an organization?
- Explain the rise and acceptance of Management based on Modernist ideas.
- Explain five differences and/or similarities between "Human Relations Theory" and "Scientific Management"?
- What are the advantages and disadvantages of tall and flat organizations from the management/employee/customer perspectives?
- Describe the different stages that an organization goes through as stated in "Organizational Lifecycle Theory"
- Explain the contribution of "Contingency Theory" in general and list in full the boundary conditions that define Contingency Theory while studying organizational structure.
- Briefly explain the seven differences between mechanistic and organic structure.
- Discuss the "Symbolic-Interpretive" view of studying organization-environment relationships.
- Summarize the modernist view of the environment.
- Explain "Resource Dependency Theory" and some strategies to manage those dependencies.
- What are the legacies of "bureaucracy" and "scientific management"?
- List the criticisms of "Taylorism."
- Explain why one should study organizations as "ongoing processes" of organizing?
- Discuss the differences between the formal and informal aspects of organizations?
- Discuss the concerns of bureaucratic dysfunction?
- What characteristics define an ideal bureaucracy?
- Explain how are knowledge and power entwined?
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