...Running head: 7 ORGANIZATIONAL APPROACHES 7 Organizational Approaches Mary Moran HCA/220 Mary Foley August 24, 2014 7 Organizational Approaches There are 7 organizational approaches that in each way of these approaches the body from a specific point of view and provides unique information by dividing or organizing the body in a logical way. These 7 organizational approaches are: * Body Planes and Body Directions * Body Cavities * Quadrants and Regions * Anatomy and Physiology * Microscopic and Macroscopic * Body Systems * Medical Specialties Body Planes and Body Directions: Within the body planes and body directions, you have subcategories as well, such as: The coronal or frontal plane, which is the vertical plane that divides the body into front and back sections. You also have the front of the body, the anterior, and the back of the body, the posterior or dorsal. You also have the Sagittal Plane and Body Direction that is a vertical plane that divides the body into right and left sections. The Transverse Plan and Body Direction that is a horizontal plan that divides the body into top and bottom sections. This approach is used when studying organs and its functions or specific areas within the body like the lungs, brain, and joint and tendons. Body Cavities: A cavity is a hollow space. It is surrounded by bones or muscles that support and protect the organs and structures with the cavity. There are five body cavities: ...
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...Organizational Behavior in the Workplace GLORIA GONZALEZ MGT/312 April 22, 2016 UOP Organizational Behavior in the Workplace |Job Skills in the Workplace | |Critical Thinking: Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches | |to problems. (kinicki & Fugate, p. 7) | |Problem-solving: Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions. | |(Kinicki & Fugate, p. 7) | |Judgement and Decision Making: Considering the relative cost and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate ones. | |(Kinicki & Fugate, p. 7) | |Active Listening: Giving full attention to what other people are saying; taking the time to understand the points made; asking questions as| |appropriate and not interrupting. (Kinicki & Fugate, p. 7) | In the text, Understanding, and Managing...
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...Managing Organizational Change A Multiple Perspectives Approach Managing Organizational Change A Multiple Perspectives Approach Ian Palmer Richard Dunford Gib Akin Boston Burr Ridge, IL Dubuque, IA Madison, WI New York San Francisco St. Louis Bangkok Bogotá Caracas Kuala Lumpur Lisbon London Madrid Mexico City Milan Montreal New Delhi Santiago Seoul Singapore Sydney Taipei Toronto MANAGING ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE: A MULTIPLE PERSPECTIVES APPROACH Published by McGraw-Hill/Irwin, a business unit of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 1221 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY, 10020. Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written consent of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., including, but not limited to, in any network or other electronic storage or transmission, or broadcast for distance learning. Some ancillaries, including electronic and print components, may not be available to customers outside the United States. This book is printed on acid-free paper. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 DOC/DOC 0 9 8 7 6 5 ISBN 0-07-249680-0 Editorial director: John E. Biernat Senior sponsoring editor: Kelly H. Lowery Editorial assistant: Kirsten L. Guidero Executive marketing manager: Ellen Cleary Senior project manager: Lori Koetters Production supervisor: Debra R. Sylvester Design coordinator: Cara David...
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...MBA-Semester-III-IV Course Title: Organizational Development Course Code: Credit Hours: 3+0 Course Instructor: Hina Rehman Prerequisites: • Students should be specialized in Human Resources Management. • Students should know the basic concept of change and development. Textbooks (or Course Materials) with Edition Organizational Development & Change By: Dianne M Waddell, Thomas G Cummings & Christopher G Worley Course Description Course is specifically designed to around change management and organizational development interventions around human and other organizational aspects. Reference Material Harvard business review and case studies Course Objectives: The course is about the study of behavioral science techniques to improve organizational health and effectiveness, internal relationships and problem-solving capabilities. Organizational learning, transition processes, changing values, diversity of labor forces and other challenges put forward by globalization are some of the topics discussed. Course Outcomes: • Establishing relationships with key personnel in the organization (often called "entering" and "contracting" with the organization); • Researching and evaluating systems in the organization to understand dysfunctions and/or goals of the systems in the organization ("diagnosing" the systems in the organization); • Identifying approaches (or "interventions") to improve...
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...5 WORKING IN THE NEW ECONOMY 6 Globalization 6 Intellectual Capital 6 Knowledge worker 7 Diversity 7 Technology 7 Workforce diversity 8 Discrimination 8 Ethics 8 Prejudice 8 The Glass ceiling effect 9 Corporate governance 9 Career (core worker, contract worker, part-time worker) 10 ORGANZATIONS IN THE NEW WORKPLACE 11 Critical survival skills for the new workplace 11 Organization 12 ORGANZATIONS AS SYSTEMS 12 Open systems 12 ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE 12 Productivity 12 Performance effectiveness 13 Performance efficiency 13 CHANGING NATURE OF ORGANIZATIONS 13 7 changes 14 Total quality management (TQM) 14 MANAGERS IN THE NEW WORKPLACE 15 Definition of manager 15 LEVELS OF MANAGERS 15 Top manager 16 Middle manager 16 Project manager 16 Team leader or supervisor 16 Nine responsibilities of team leader 17 TYPES OF MANAGERS 17 Administrator 17 Functional manager 17 General manager 17 Line manager 17 Staff manager 17 MANAGERIAL PERFORMANCE 17 Quality of work life 17 Accountability 18 CHANGING NATURE OF MANAGERIAL WORK 18 Upside-down pyramid 19 THE MANAGEMENT PROCESS 19 FUNCTUONS OF MANAGEMENT (Planning, Leading, Controlling, Organizing) 19 Management 20 Leading 20 Organizing 20 Planning 21 Controlling 21 MANAGERIAL ACTIVITIVES AND ROLES 21 Mintzberg’s 10 managerial roles ( Inter-Info-Decisional) 22. Realities of managerial work 22 MANAGERIAL AGENDAS AND NETWORKING 22 ...
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...ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR Faculty Member Details: Dr. Prageetha G Raju Room No. D-203 Ph: 8790794397 E-mail: dr.prageetha@gmail.com Consulting Hours: Students can visit my room any time between 9 a.m. and 5:45 p.m. (only if needed) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Course Description: The management of complex organizations requires an understanding of the nature of human behavior in corporate and other organizations, styles of motivations, personality and perceptions, company leadership, power and authority, strategies of organizational design and change, teamwork, conflict and collaboration, and culture. Organizational Behavior explores individual and group behavior within work organizations and helps students understand, describe, and explain human behavior at work. Course Objective: The course shall be completed in 33 sessions and after completing the course the student will be able to: * Apply and analyze different concepts related to organizational behavior * Define the purpose and nature of the field of organizational behavior * Understand and learn how to Manage individuals for high performance by developing your understanding of individual and interpersonal behavior * Understand and learn how to manage groups for high performance through an exposure to theories, concepts, and principles of OB Prescribed Textbook: Organizational Behavior, Stephen P Robbins,Timothy...
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...ANALYSIS OF LEADERSHIP THEORIES AND CHANGE MANAGEMENT CONCEPTS WRITTEN BY: ANKITA PATIL BATCH: BABM-1 UNIVERSAL BUSINESS SCHOOL CONTENTS Serial No. | Title | Page No. | 1 | INTRODUCTION | 3 | 2 | LEADERSHIP | 3 | 2.1 | LEADERSHIP APPROACHES | 4 | 2.1.1 | TRANSACTIONAL LEADERSHIP | 5 | 2.1.2 | TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP | 6 | 2.2 | REALATION BETWEEN TRANFORMATIONAL AND TRANSACTIONAL LEADERSHIP | 7 | 2.3 | X AND Y THEORY | 8 | 3 | WHAT IS ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE? | 9 | 3.1 | MODLE OF THE CHANGE PROCESS | 9 | 3.1.1 | FORCE-FIELD ANALYSIS | 9 | 3.1.2 | THE THREE STEP MODEL | 10 | 3.2 | TYPES OF PLANNED CHANGE | 11 | 3.3 | IMPACTS OF CHANGE | 12 | 4 | CONCLUSION | 12 | 5 | REFERENCES | 13 | 1. INTRODUCTION: I choose to do the live project in ‘Max Elastic Technocraft’ which is an upcoming elastic manufacturing company. The company’s manufacturing unit is based in Varap gaon, Kalyan-Murbad Road, Murbad. The company is under the SME segment and has annual turnover of Rs. 10,00,00,000. The company manufactures all kinds of elastic bands which include woven elastics, jacquard elastics, mobilon tapes, furniture elastic, shoe elastic etc. There are total 150 employees which includes 2 HR Heads, 10 managers, 20 assistant managers, 5 technical heads, 7 technicians, 10 operation managers, 3 finance officers. The rest are the workers who handle machines according to their shifts. There are 41 machines in the company. The company follows two shift systems i.e. day shift and night...
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...Table of Contents 1. Understand the relationship between organizational structure and culture: 2 1.1 Compare and contrast different organizational structure and cultures: 2 1.2 Explain how the relationship between an organization’s structure and culture can impact on the performance of the business: 4 1.3 Discuss the factors which influence individual behavior at work: 4 2. Understand different approaches to management and leadership: 5 2.1 Compare the effectiveness of different leadership styles in different organizations: 5 2.2 Explain how organizational theory underpins the practice of management: 5 2.3 Evaluate the different approaches to management used by different organizations: 6 3. Understand ways of using motivational theories in organizations 7 3.1 Discuss the impact that different leadership styles may have on motivation in organizations in period of change: 7 3.2 Compare the application of different motivational theories within the workplace: 8 3.3 Evaluate the usefulness of a motivation theory for managers: 9 4. Understand mechanism for developing effective teamwork in organizations 10 4.1 Explain the nature of groups and group behavior within organizations: 10 4.2 Discuss factors that may promote or inhibit the development of effective teamwork in organizations: 10 4.3 evaluate the impact of technology on team functioning within a given organization: 11 References: 12 Introduction: Organization is the combination of people for...
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...Licensed to: iChapters User Licensed to: iChapters User Business in Context: An introduction to business and its environment, Fifth Edition David Needle Publishing Director: Linden Harris Publisher: Thomas Rennie Development Editor: Leandra Paoli Content Project Editor: Alison Cooke Head of Manufacturing: Jane Glendening Senior Production Controller: Paul Herbert Marketing Manager: Amanda Cheung Typesetter: KnowledgeWorks Global, India Cover design: Design Deluxe ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. No part of this work covered by the copyright herein may be reproduced, transmitted, stored or used in any form or by any means graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including but not limited to photocopying, recording, scanning, digitizing, taping, Web distribution, information networks, or information storage and retrieval systems, except as permitted under Section applicable copyright law of another jurisdiction, without the prior written permission of the publisher. While the publisher has taken all reasonable care in the preparation of this book, the publisher makes no representation, express or implied, with regard to the accuracy of the information contained in this book and cannot accept any legal responsibility or liability for any errors or omissions from the book or the consequences thereof. Products and services that are referred to in this book may be either trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective owners. The publishers and author/s make no claim to these trademarks...
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...qualified personnel to replace the old ones. 5. Improved selection for promotion. 6. Minimum delay in staffing new positions. 7. Combination of youth and experience in top-management. 8. Improved executive morale. 9. Attraction to company of ambitious people who wish to move ahead rapidly. 10. Increased effectiveness and reduced costs resulting in greater assurance of continued profitability. TYPES OF TRAINING 1. On-the-Job Training 2. Vestibule Schools – initial training in a class room of semi-skilled and clerical workers (bank clerks / Machine Operators) 3. Apprenticeship Programs – higher level of skills, e.g., Engineering 4. Internship Training: students undertake this type of training. 5. Special Courses / Teaching Machines 6. Class room Instructions 7. Retraining STAGES IN DESIGNING TRAINING PROGRAM 1. Set overall training objectives 2. Select relevant training material 3. Decide training methods 4. Assess training time periods 5. Construct the time table 6. Brief the trainer 7. Monitor and evaluate training WHAT CAUSES CHANGE? Environment (business, economy, climate world conditions etc. govt. regulations, competition, changes in morals and values of the society – fashion) Technological Developments Organizational change, size, board level. Managerial change is important type of change. Managers are source of many changes that...
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...The Seven Organizational Approaches HCA/220 Seven Organizational Approaches Health care has seven organizational approaches that are different methods that are used for viewing, as well as exploring the human body and gathering information about the human body. Each ones of these methods is a way that helps produce different ways of organizing information about the body and each of these methods produce different information. Each of these approaches are a way of describing the body. The organizational approaches are body planes and body directions, body cavities, quadrants and regions, anatomy and physiology, microscopic and macroscopic, body systems, and medical specialties. These organizational approaches will be explained and how they are used to study the human body, its systems, as well as how they are used in health care. The first organizational approach is body planes and body directions. Body planes and body directions are divided into three main parts and are referred to as planes. The coronal plane, which is also known as the frontal plane is the first plane. This divides the body into the front and the back. Which also is called the anterior section and the posterior section. The sagittal plane is the second plane that divides the body. The sagittal plane splits the body into the right plane and into the left plane. “By studying the sagittal plane, doctors are able to explore the reasons behind the lower back pain and alignment within the sagittal plane”...
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...COMM105 – Individual Assignment # 1 Building on assignment # 1, the purpose of this assignment is to help each of you deepen your understanding of how various organizational behaviours, particularly those at the individual and group/team level, affect and are affected by organizational culture and organizational change. Although it is an individual assignment in terms of the core work, it expands into a group project as you each share what you discover and learn with your project team in relation to Team Project # 2. Assignment Objectives: * Explore a particular aspect of organizational behaviour. * Explain the interrelationships between these aspects of OB and organizational culture and organizational change. * Assess how the OB factors you have studied might have been at play in the Transact Insurance Corporation as described in the case study. * Develop a basic plan to show how Jim Leon might have used strengths-based approaches to change leadership to generate better outcomes. Although this is an individual assignment, you are welcome, indeed encouraged, to collaborate with your team mates as you explore your assigned topics and find common themes and patterns in the various OB topics explored by the group. You will use your collective learning to develop your Team Project 2 presentation and recommendations. Each team member will explore one of the following six topics. Determine early who is going to research which topic. 1. Individual...
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...A Project Proposal about The Managerial Discussion Based on ServIT Ltd. From Team2: Xiao LI Navneet Kaur Piyush Joshi Raghav Mehra Kapil Goel For Andy Ballard 17/06/2015 Table content Table content 2 Introduction 3 Problem Identification 3 Approaches 4 Roles 4 Timeframe 5 Literature Review 6 Organizing 6 Leading 7 The styles of leadership 7 Position Power 7 Solutions 7 Motivating 8 Refrence 9 Introduction ServIT is a New Zealand company dedicating to the training of professional graphic design software. The founder, Andrew Serva, used to work as Distribution Manager for Ingram Micro New Zealand Ltd. In 1995 he started evening classes on software training. Later he resigned and fully committed to ServIT. During 1996 – 1998, ServIT maintained a positive business but it would become had for Andrew to function solely. Early in 2000, Andrew’s wife Sally joined the company as a Director. Four years later ServIT grew stably with the relocation, the extension of courses as well as more staff engagement. ServIT had been complying a centralized organizational structure. As time passes, a number of changes taken place such as new appointment, establishment of graphic design service in house and software development services. As the company develops year after year towards new heights, it exhibited a lot of shortcomings in many aspects. But overall ServIT Ltd had a consistent growth. Problem Identification * Organizing From 1996 to 1998...
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...7/29/2013 Management Information Systems Chapter 1 Chapter 1: Information Systems in Global Business Today Learning Objectives Information Systems in y Business Today VIDEO CASES Case 1: UPS Global Operations with the DIAD IV Case 2: Google Data Center Efficiency Best Practices Instructional Video 1: Green Energy Efficiency in a Data Center Using Tivoli Architecture Instructional Video 2: Tour IBM’s Raleigh Data Center 1.2 • Understand the effects of information systems on business and their relationship to globalization. • Explain why information systems are so essential in business today. • Define an information system and describe its management, organization, and technology components. Copyright © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc. Management Information Systems Chapter 1: Information Systems in Global Business Today Management Information Systems Chapter 1: Information Systems in Global Business Today Learning Objectives (cont.) Shortening Lines at Disney World: Technology to the Rescue • Define complementary assets and explain how they ensure that information systems provide genuine value to an organization. • Describe the different academic disciplines used to study information systems and explain how each contributes to our understanding of them. • Explain what is meant by a sociotechnical systems perspective. 1.3 Copyright © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc. • Problem: Long lines limit how many rides, shops, and restaurants a ...
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...Year – 2014-15 Course Handout Section A Course Name: Organizational Behavior Faculty Name: Smita Kulkarni Room No: 114 Wing No: D Consultation Hours: between 10.55- 12.10 on Fridays Email: smita@ibsindia.org Course Objective: Semester: I The management of complex organizations requires an understanding of the nature of human behavior in corporate and other organizations, styles of motivations, personality and perceptions, company leadership, power and authority, strategies of organizational design and change, teamwork, conflict and collaboration, and culture. Organizational Behavior explores individual and group behavior within work organizations and helps students understand, describe, and explain human behavior at work Learning Outcomes: After completing the course the student will be able to: Apply and analyze different concepts related to organizational behavior Define the purpose and nature of the field of organizational behavior Understand how to Manage individuals for high performance by developing your understanding of individual and interpersonal behavior Understand how to manage groups for high performance through an exposure to theories, concepts, and principles of OB Recommended Text Book: Organizational Behavior, Stephen P Robbins,Timothy Judge and Neharika Vohra 15e, Pearson. Suggested books: 1. Fred Luthans, “Organizational Behavior, 8e, TMH, India. 2. John W Newstrom, “Organizational Behavior – Human behavior at work”, 12e, TMH, India...
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