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    Orgs Culture and Its

    1. Define organizational culture and discuss its three layers. Organizational culture represents the shared assumptions that a group holds. It influences employees' perceptions and behavior at work. The three layers of organizational culture include observable artifacts, espoused values, and basic assumptions. Artifacts are the physical manifestations of an organization's culture. Espoused values represent the explicitly stated values and norms that are preferred by an organization. Basic underlying

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    of strategic change and how to manage it. These include Force Field Analysis theory, the Change Kaleidoscope approach and the Cultural Web approach. These theories help to give an understanding of the link between strategy, dimensions of corporate culture and managerial action. ‘Force Field Analysis provides an initial view of change problems that need to be tackled by identifying forces for and against change’ (Johnson G, 2011, p. 469) Kurt Lewin created this analysis in the 1940’s as a tool for

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    Organisation Development

    Organisational culture in Alphabet Games includes many elements or components which are organisational shared values, norms and basic taken for granted assumptions. ‘Shared values’:- • All group learning reflects the original values • Those who prevail influence group: the leaders • It first begins as shared value then becomes shared assumption • Social validation happens with shared learning • Initially started by founder, leader and then assimilated The organisational culture in Alphabet

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    Business

    Chapter 1: business organisation Organisation: * Social arrangements: have structure which enables people to work together towards the common goals. Larger organisation have formal structure, small organisations divide up the responsibilities between the concerned people. * Controlled performance: have systems and procedures to ensure that goals are achieved. * Collective goals: school main goal is to educate pupils while company goal is to make profits. “Organisations are social arrangements

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    Culture

    * Introduction Introduction * The theory behind this dissertation is to access the theory that setting up the right culture is important in the start-up of a company. The company that the research is been done on is Alstom. Research Background * Alstom is a multinational company which is a world leader in transport infrastructure, power generation and transmission. Alstom is in 70 countries worldwide and has 93,000 employees. This research is been done on Alstom Transport Global

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    Analysis of Mean Girls

    instead of her. People easily believe her when she tells them that in Africa everyone can read Swedish, which portrays the ignorance of her fellow students and they’re ignorance regarding other cultures. People are unfamiliar with Caddy’s African culture just as she is unfamiliar with the American high school culture. She learns that there is an unwritten social rule preventing her from acting on her crush due to Aaron being her new friend’s ex-boyfriend. She learns that being good at math is not the key

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    Organization

    Management December, 2008 Organizational Culture and Its Themes Shili Sun School of Foreign Languages, Ludong University No.186 Hongqi Middle Road, Zhifu District, Yantai 264025, Shandong Province, China Tel: 86-535-668-1098 Abstract E-mail: shilisun@hotmail.com As one of the key ‘stable factors’, culture within an organization is playing a critical role in the organization’s everyday operations. Although the culture literature has at times focused on the culture of an organization as shared

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    there are a large number of failures of change management. Organizational change itself is a considerably complex activity; any tiny mistake in change management could lead to the failure of organizational change. Consequently this paper is impossible to encompass all factors that could result in the failure of change management. This paper attempts to explain why change management strategies fail from four perspectives (leadership, culture, people issues and quick response) that are major factors

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    Integrating Culture and Diversity in Decision Making

    there be shoes, 2014). Zappos Culture Culture cannot be generalized across organizations, but must be viewed in context of the particular organization. This is due to shared and multiple meanings emerging in relation to the particular group of people and to the mission, vision statements, and their values (Cunliffe, 2008). Zappos culture is one in which customer service and satisfaction and employee empowerment is at the heart of what they do. The culture at Zappos is an extension of their

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    Organisational Behaviour

    structure and culture and It will compare and contrast different organisational structures and culture analysing the relationship between an organisations’ structure and the consequences on business performances. Finally it will analyse the factors which influence individual behaviour at work. Organisational Structure First of all, an organisational structure refers to how an organisation has Hierarchical subordinates of persons concerned to achieve the same goal. The culture of an organisation

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