Professional Documents
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Organizational culture
and change
Organizational Culture
5-3
Levels of Corporate
Culture
Visible
Culture
Expressed
Values
Core
Values
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Cultures
CulturesFunctions:
Functions:
1.1. Defines
Definesthe
theboundary
boundarybetween
betweenone
oneorganization
organizationand
andothers.
others.
2.2. Conveys
Conveysaasense
senseofofidentity
identityfor
forits
itsmembers.
members.
3.3. Facilitates
Facilitatesthe
thegeneration
generationofofcommitment
commitmenttotosomething
somethinglarger
larger
than
thanself-interest.
self-interest.
4.4. Enhances
Enhancesthe
thestability
stabilityofofthe
thesocial
socialsystem.
system.
5.5. Serves
Servesas
asaasense-making
sense-makingand
andcontrol
controlmechanism
mechanism for
forfitting
fitting
employees
employeesininthe
theorganization.
organization.
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Selection
Concern with how well the candidates will fit into the
organization.
Provides information to candidates about the
organization.
Top Management
Senior executives help establish behavioral norms
that are adopted by the organization.
Socialization
the
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Encounter Stage
The stage in the socialization process in which a new
employee sees what the organization is really like and
confronts the possibility that expectations and reality may
diverge.
Metamorphosis Stage
The stage in the socialization process in which a new
employee changes and adjusts to the work, work group,
and organization.
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Company Rituals
and Ceremonies
Company Heroes
Stories
Organizational
Policies and
Decision Making
Language
Leadership
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forces
Political and regulatory forces
Social trends
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Resistance to Change
Self-Interest
Cultures that
Value Tradition
Different
Perspectives and
Goals
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Unfreezing
is the process
by which people
become aware
of the need for
change
Change:
movement
from the old
way of doing
things to a
new way
Refreezing:
is the process of
making new
behaviors
relatively
permanent and
resistant to
further change
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Bottom-up Change
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5. Empower others to
urgency.
2. Form a powerful
coalition of supporters
of change.
3. Create a vision of
change.
4. Communicate the
vision of change.
Employee
Involvement
Negotiation
Coercion
Top-Management
Support
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Key
impact
Start small
Minimises
transition
Reward
contributors
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2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies,
Inc. All rights
reserved. problems of
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Organizational development
---ORGANIZATION DEVELOPMENT: It is the process of planned
change and improvement of the organization through application
of knowledge of the behavioral sciences
-----OD is the systematic application of behavioral science
knowledge at various levels, such as group, inter group,
organization, to bring about planned change.
----Their objective is a higher quality of work life, productivity,
adaptability and effectiveness. It accomplishes this by
changing attitudes, behaviors, values, strategies,
procedures and structures so that the organization can
adapt to competitive actions, technological advances and
the fast pace of change within the environment .
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