McShane−Von Glinow: Organizational Behavior, Second Edition Part Four Organizational Processes Organizational Culture © The McGraw−Hill Companies, 2002 C H A P T E R 15 Organizational Culture AFTER READING THIS CHAPTER , YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO : Learning Objectives I Describe the elements of organizational culture. I Discuss the importance of organizational subcultures. I List four categories of artifacts through which corporate culture is communicated. I Identify three
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THE CHANGING ROLE OF MARKETING IN THE CORPORATION Frederick E. Webster, Jr. For the past two decades, some subtle changes in the concept and practice of marketing have been fundamentally reshaping the field. Many of these changes have been initiated by industry, in the form of new organizational types, without explicit concern for their underlying theoretical explanation or justification. On the academic side, prophetic voices have been speaking (Arndt 1979, 1981, 1983; Thorelli 1986; Van de
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BRAND MANAGEMENT Student: Drobnjak Anja, K-5050 Professor: Prof. dr David Jones Warsaw, 22.01.2014. Contents Introduction 4 Branding 5 The Laws of Branding 6 Branding and its components 8 Brand implementation 9 Brand awareness 9 Brand recognition 10 Brand equity 10 Brand elements 11 Brand Bubble Trouble 12 Strategic brand management 13 Adidas - a brand that identifies with its performance 15 Coca-Cola as Number One 17 Disney world 18 Conclusion
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The Big Idea hbr.org Scott D. Anthony is the managing director of Innosight Asia-Pacific and the author of The Little Black Book of Innovation (Harvard Business Review Press, 2012). The New Corporate Garage Illustration: otto steininger Where today’s most innovative—and world-changing—thinking is taking place by Scott D. Anthony Quick: List the big companies that have launched paradigm-shifting innovations in recent decades. There’s Apple—and, well, Apple. The popular perception is that most
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several sections. Table 15-1 Elements of Organizational Structure 15.2 What are the major elements of an organizational structure? WORK SPECIALIZATION. Work specialization is the way in which tasks in an organization are divided into separate jobs. In some organizations, this categorization is referred to as a company’s division of labor. How many tasks does any one employee perform? To some degree, work specialization is a never-ending trade-off among productivity, flexibility, and worker
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BỘ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO TRƯỜNG ĐẠI HỌC HOA SEN KHOA KINH TẾ THƯƠNG MẠI BÁO CÁO THỰC TẬP NHẬN THỨC SVTH: TRẦN DẠ MAI TRINH MSSV: 2008986 Lớp: NT121 GVHD: NGỤY THỊ SAO CHI TP HCM Tháng 09/2014 BỘ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO TRƯỜNG ĐẠI HỌC HOA SEN KHOA KINH TẾ THƯƠNG MẠI
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rP os t 9-205-030 OCTOBER 5, 2004 MIHIR A. DESAI MASAKO EGAWA op yo The Continuing Transformation of Asahi Glass: Implementing EVA Toshiya Iwasaki, who founded our company in 1907, succeeded in Japan’s first commercial manufacturing of flat glass after numerous failures. He used to say, “Never take the easy way out, but confront difficulties.” He built the corporate culture to challenge the most difficult problems. — Shinya Ishizu, President and CEO Shinya Ishizu was in a
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Apple Manufacturing: Should More Apple Products Say “Assembled in the USA”? Production and Operations Management, BUS 5461 Abstract Apple, Inc. is a $170B global corporation that designs, markets and sells consumer electronic products such as the iPhone, iPad, and the Mac computer. Apple has structured their manufacturing and supply chain processes to take advantage of China’s cheap and plentiful labor. However, Apple has made an innovative decision to have the new ultra high-end
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Better Practices for Retaining Organizational Knowledge: Lessons from the Leading Edge David W. De Long and Thomas Davenport n 1998, after significantly downsizing for ten years, the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) realized that the median age of its 13,000 remaining employees was 48. Because most of its workers retired well before age 60, this meant that over the next ten years the TVA, the largest electrical utility in the United States, was bound to lose many of those it depended
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Jer ry: Ben: Jerry: Ben: Jerry : Ben: What's interest ing abo ut me a nd my role in the company is, I'm j ust this guy on the street. A pe rson who 's fai rly conventional , mainstream. accepting of life as it is. Salt ofthe earth. A man of the pe opl e. But then I'v e go t this friend , B en, who challenges everything. It' s against his nature to do anything the same wa y any one 's ever do ne it befo re. To which my response is always , " I don 't think that'll wo rk." To which my response is
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