Chapter 8 Flashcards
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organizational culture
system of shared beliefs and values that develops within an organization and guides the behavior of its members
CORPORATE CULTURE
Culture PLUS structure
VSCSCA
Vision Strategy Culture Structure & internal practives Collective attitudes & behaviors Achievements and goals
Competing Values Framwork
CLAN-COLLABORATE
HIERARCHY-CONTROL
ADHOCRACY-CREATE
MARKET-COMPETE
Level 1
OBSERVABLE ARTIFACTS
manner of dress, awards, myths and stories about company
Level 2
Espoused Values
-stated values and norms preferred by an organization
Enacted
-represent the values and norms actually exhibited in the organization
Level 3
BASIC ASSUMPTIONS
Core values of organizations culture
-those taken for granted and highly resistant to change
Four functions of culture
OSCS
Organizational identity
Sense-Making Device
Collective commitment
Social System Stability
Three perspectives
Strength
Fit
Adaptive-LONG TERM
Integration
tendency of the parts of an organization to dram together to achieve a common purpose
Differentiation
Disperse and fragment
Stages in life
Birth-organization is created
Youth-growth and expanded
Mid-evolving
Maturity-bureaucratic, large
Mechanistic VS. Organic
Mechanistic
- centralized
- many rules
- specialized tasks
- formalized communication
- few teams or task forces
ORGANIC
-shared
decentralized
-few rules
SIMPLE structure
centralized
FUNCTIONAL structure
similar occupational specialities are put together in formal groups
DIVISIONAL structure
diverse occupational specialities are put together in formal groups by GEOGRAPHIC regions
MATRIX structure
combines functional and divisional chains of command in a grid so that there are two command structures
VERTICAL AND HORIZONTAL
HORIZONTAL structures
TEAMS or WORKSGROUPS
HOLLOW OR NETWORK structure
central core of key functions and outsources other functions to vendors who can do them CHEAPER OR FASTER
Boundaryless
organization is a fluid, highly adaptive organization whose members, linked by info tech., come together to collaborate on common tasks
MODULAR structure
FIRMS assembles product chunks, or modules provided by outside contractors
centralized authortiy
higher level
decentrailed
middle
Line and Staff
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Chief
Prez
