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	<title>Management Articles &#187; Organizational Theory</title>
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		<title>Changing Organizational Culture</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:39:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Organizational Culture]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[culture change]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[organizational culture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Culture change is difficult and time consuming because &#8220;culture&#8221; is rooted in the collective history of an organization, and because so much of it is below the surface of awareness. In general, the process of culture change must include the following steps:

Uncover core values and beliefs
Acknowledge, respect, and discuss differences between core values and beliefs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Organizational Culture and Types</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:34:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Organizational Culture]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[behavioral psychology]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[organizational culture]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[social environment]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Culture is a deep rooted phenomenon in  social systems. Culture and social environment distinguish human beings from other species (Skinner 1978)[1]. Culture in anthropology refers to socially trans­mitted patterns for behavior of a particular social group. Goldenough (in Kessing 1981) says that culture has been used to refer to the &#8220;regularly recurring pattern of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Analyze And Develop A Positive Team Culture</title>
		<link>http://www.managementheaven.com/analyze-develop-positive-team-culture/</link>
		<comments>http://www.managementheaven.com/analyze-develop-positive-team-culture/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:30:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Admin</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Organizational Culture]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[organizational culture types]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[organizational cultures]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[team culture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There is more than one type of organizational culture in the corporate world. This doesn&#8217;t mean strong versus weak, although those are certainly two general categories for organisational culture. While different theorists and different companies even might have differing opinions on the types of organizational cultures out there, there is a general consensus on four [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Types of Organizational Cultures</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:25:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Admin</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Organizational Culture]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[definition of culture]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[organizational culture types]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[organizational cultures]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The definition of culture is imparting a flavor of the concept. More formal definitions of culture focus upon the ideologies, norms and customs, shared values and beliefs, which characterized an organization. Many people explain a variety of phenomena and such as each one tend to adopt a slightly different perspective; therefore, there is no universally [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Job Design, Motivation, Performance, Satisfaction</title>
		<link>http://www.managementheaven.com/job-design-motivation-performance-satisfaction/</link>
		<comments>http://www.managementheaven.com/job-design-motivation-performance-satisfaction/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 14:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Admin</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Work/Job Design]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[job characteristic model]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[job design]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[job satisfaction]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Job design refers to organizing tasks, duties, and responsibilities into a productive unit of work. It involves designating the content of jobs and the effect of jobs on employees, and identifying the components of a given job is an integral part of design.
Importance of job design:
Job design can influence performance in certain jobs.
Job design can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Goal setting and job design approaches to motivation</title>
		<link>http://www.managementheaven.com/goal-setting-job-design-approaches-motivation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.managementheaven.com/goal-setting-job-design-approaches-motivation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 14:16:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Admin</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Work/Job Design]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[goal setting theory]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[job design approaches]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.managementheaven.com/?p=208</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Goal setting is a useful method of enhancing employee performance. Goals provide a useful framework for managing motivation. Managers and employees can set goals for themselves and then work toward them. This presentation file discusses about motivational framework, goal setting theory of motivation, management by objectives (MBO), job characteristics model, job design across cultures.
There are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Approaches to Job Design</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 13:42:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Admin</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Work/Job Design]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[job characteristic approach]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[job design approaches]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.managementheaven.com/?p=207</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The term &#8216;Job Design&#8216; refers to the way the tasks are combined to form a complete job. It can be defined as building the specifications of the position, contents, method and relationships of the job so as to meet with various technological and organizational requirements as well as meet the personal needs of job holders.
There [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Universal perspectives of Organizational Design</title>
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		<comments>http://www.managementheaven.com/universal-perspectives-organizational-design/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 12:52:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Admin</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Organisational Design]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[contingency theory]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[organization design]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[universal perspectives]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Organization Design is a formal, guided process for integrating the people, information and technology of an organization. It is used to match the form of the organization as closely as possible to the purpose(s) the organization seeks to achieve.
Universal Perspectives
The Bureaucratic Model
Max Weber, a German sociologist, conceptualized the idea of bureaucracy. A bureaucracy is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Contingency Theory, Contingency Approach</title>
		<link>http://www.managementheaven.com/contingency-theory-approach/</link>
		<comments>http://www.managementheaven.com/contingency-theory-approach/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 15:08:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Admin</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Organisational Design]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[contingency approach]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[contingency factors]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[contingency theory]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[management theories]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Contingency Theory refers to any of a number of management theories. Several contingency approaches were developed concurrently in the late 1960s. They suggested that previous theories such as Weber&#8217;s bureaucracy and Taylor&#8217;s scientific management had failed because they neglected that management style and organizational structure were influenced by various aspects of the environment: the contingency [...]]]></description>
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		<title>McKinsey approach to problem solving</title>
		<link>http://www.managementheaven.com/mckinsey-approach-problem-solving/</link>
		<comments>http://www.managementheaven.com/mckinsey-approach-problem-solving/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 13:33:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Admin</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Organization Theory - Introduction]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[7s framework]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[mckinsey 7-s]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This presentation discusses about the Mckinsey’s 7s framework
The problem is not always the problem
Create structure through “M.E.C.E.”
Don’t reinvent the wheel
Every client is unique (no cookie cutter solutions)
Don’t make the facts fit your solution
Make sure your solution fits your client
Sometimes let the solution come to you
No problem is too tough to solve
Format: PPT &#124; Size: &#8211;
Source: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>7S Model</title>
		<link>http://www.managementheaven.com/7s-model/</link>
		<comments>http://www.managementheaven.com/7s-model/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 13:28:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Admin</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Organization Theory - Introduction]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[mckinsey 7-s]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[reorganization]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This model (7S Model) was developed in the 1980&#8217;s by Robert Waterman, Tom Peters and Julien Philips  whilst working for McKinsey and originally presented in their article &#8221; Structure is not Organization&#8220;. To quote them:
&#8220;Intellectually all managers and consultants know that much more goes on in the process of organizing than the charts, boxes, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>McKinsey 7 S model</title>
		<link>http://www.managementheaven.com/mckinsey-7s-model/</link>
		<comments>http://www.managementheaven.com/mckinsey-7s-model/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 13:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Admin</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Organization Theory - Introduction]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[mckinsey 7-s]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.managementheaven.com/?p=198</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The 7-S-Model is better known as McKinsey 7-S. This is because the two persons who developed this model, Tom Peters and Robert Waterman, have been consultants at McKinsey &#38; Co at that time. Thy published their 7-S-Model in their article “Structure Is Not Organization” (1980) and in their books “The Art of Japanese Management” (1981) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Approaches to Organization</title>
		<link>http://www.managementheaven.com/approaches-organization/</link>
		<comments>http://www.managementheaven.com/approaches-organization/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 12:54:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Admin</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Organization Theory - Introduction]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[cognitive perspective]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[organizational approaches]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.managementheaven.com/?p=196</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[How does social science based organization theory describe the business firm? Sociology, political science, social psychology and ethnology have inspired two almost classical perspectives. One theorizes the firm as an arena for strategic behavior. The other underlines the way social pressure mechanisms structure a moral community dimension. Two additional approaches exist, less explored. The firm [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Characteristics of an Organization</title>
		<link>http://www.managementheaven.com/characteristics-organization/</link>
		<comments>http://www.managementheaven.com/characteristics-organization/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 12:47:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Admin</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Organization Theory - Introduction]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.managementheaven.com/?p=194</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m writing this to present a means of quantifying a corporation or organization in much the same way as one would an NPC. While we cannot use Combat, Move, Mental, and Physical groups as measures for such institutions, I&#8217;ve presented five characteristics that will serve as a framework for measuring the capabilities and activities. These [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Introduction to Organization</title>
		<link>http://www.managementheaven.com/introduction-organization/</link>
		<comments>http://www.managementheaven.com/introduction-organization/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 12:40:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Admin</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Organization Theory - Introduction]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[organization analysis]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[organization theories]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[organizational structures]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.managementheaven.com/?p=193</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[An organization (or organisation — see spelling differences) is a social arrangement which pursues collective goals, which controls its own performance, and which has a boundary separating it from its environment. In the social sciences, organizations are studied by researchers from several disciplines, the most common of which are sociology, economics, political science, psychology, management, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Contemporary organisation design</title>
		<link>http://www.managementheaven.com/contemporary-organisation-design/</link>
		<comments>http://www.managementheaven.com/contemporary-organisation-design/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 12:26:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Admin</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Organisational Design]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[employee empowerment]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[organisation design]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The task of the manager or organisation designer is to examine the firm and its situation and to design a form of organisation that meets its needs. A partial list of contemporary alternatives includes such approaches as downsizing, rightsizing, reengineering the organisation, team-based organisations and the virtual organisation.
These approaches often make use of total quality [...]]]></description>
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