General Electric – Case Study Out of recession The callange Welch faced in 1981 Welch‘s objective Which goal did Welch aim at? Welch´s meassures strategic and organizational iniatives The change process The logical structure behind the change process Added values The values Welch added related to the change process Our opinion Evaluation of Welch‘s approach Welch‘s heritage Longterm implications for GE Summary Short overview of Welch‘s achievments 2 THE CHALLENGE WELCH
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Analysis of the structure and culture of Thanda Forestry Company (TFC). 1. BUSINESS PROFILE OF THANDA FORESTRY COMPANY (TFC) TFC is a forestry parastatal which manages 175 000 hectors of State-owned commercial plantations. The Group consists of two main operating subsidiaries: Matanda Forests (“MF”) operating in South Africa’s 3 provinces (Limpopo, Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal), and Florestais Mozambucus (“FM”) located in the Manica province of Mozambique. TFC was established in 1990 and has
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- Designing Organizational Structure Chapter 07 Designing Organizational Structure CHAPTER CONTENTS Learning Objectives Key Definitions/Terms Chapter Overview Lecture Outline Management in Action Building Management Skills Small Group Breakout Exercise Be the Manager Case in the News 1 Chapter 07 - Designing Organizational Structure LEARNING OBJECTIVES LO 7-1. Identify the factors that influence managers’ choice of an organizational structure. LO 7-2. Explain how managers
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Culture and strategy Introduction In the strategic literature the need to develop a strategy that requires the foundations of a culture that is compatible with the intended strategy is widely recognized. However, what is less widely understood is what happens when you have to fast track both cultural and strategic change when the strategy and its desired outcomes are both incompatible with the culture of the organization. How should managers deal with these challenges? How should such cultural
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DEVELOPING ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE After reading this chapter, you should be able to: * Define organizational structure and relate how organizational structures develop. * Describe how specialization and departmentalization help an organization achieve its goals. * Distinguish between groups and teams and identify the types of groups that exist in organizations. * Determine how organizations assign responsibility for tasks and delegate authority. * Compare and contrast some
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Chapter 6 LO6-2: Differentiate between the global task and global general environments. The task environment is a set of forces and conditions that originate with suppliers, distributors, customers, and competitors and affect an organization’s ability to obtain inputs and dispose of its outputs because they influence managers daily. These forces have the most immediate and direct effect on managers because the pressure from them. The general environment includes the wide-ranging global, economic
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Page No 1- Task Type of Culture & Structure 03 2- Task Relationship Between Culture & Structure 10 3- Task
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business advantage for the future. The IT step involves offering all Statoil employees an ISDN networked, multi-media PC for free at home- given a commitment to spend some time learning how to use it. The current strategy toward "flatter organizational structures, new and simplified ways of working and opportunities for decentralized entities" is sought not so much by the use of Lotus Notes (or web) as a result of the broadening and deepening of the experience with IT, that is, the internalization of the
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Midterm CHAPTER 1 • Value creation takes place at 3 stages, input, conversion, and output. Each stage is affected by the environment in which the organization operates. - Organizational environment is the set of forces and conditions that operate beyond an organization's boundaries but affect its ability to acquire and use resources to create value. - Inputs include resources such as raw materials, machinery, information and knowledge, HR, and money and capital. They way the organization
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An Assignment ON Organization behavior Submitted To: Dr.Syeda Lasna Kabir Associate Professor Dept. of Public Administration University of Dhaka. Submitted By: Md. Rajvi Hasan Roll No: MM--098 4th Year; 7th Semester Dept. of Public Administration University of Dhaka. Submission Date: 16th May 2011. Assignment topic A Research on Bangladesh Railway [pic] □ Introduction:
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