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ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR
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CHAPTER 1
THE MEANING AND SCOPE OF
ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR
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WHAT IS OB?
• A study of human behaviour, attitudes and
performance in organization.
• Interaction between individual and organization
• An interdisciplinary – drawing on concepts from
social and clinical psychology, sociology, cultural
anthropology, industrial engineering and
organizational psychology.
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UNIT OF ANALYSIS
• Individual
• Group
• Organization
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RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN
OB AND MANAGEMENT
• Organizational behaviour:
– Interaction between individual and organization
• Management:
– A critical element in the economic growth of the
country
– Essential in all organized effort
– The dynamic, life giving element in every
organization
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WHY STUDY OB?
• Cherrington identified three main objectives
in organizational behaviour:
– Explain
– Clarify
– Control
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CHAPTER 2
THE BEGINNINGS OF STUDIES
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CLASSICAL SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT
• Consists of three streams of thought:
– Bureaucratic organization
• Max Webber
– Administrative management
• How organizations should be managed and structured
• Henri Fayol and Chester Barnard
– Scientific management
• Application of scientific methods to increase individual
worker’s productivity
• Frederick Winslow Taylor, Henri Gantt and Frank and
Lillian Gilbreth
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HAWTHORNE STUDIES
• The Test Room Studies
• Interviewing Studies
• Observational Studies
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HUMAN RELATIONS SCHOOL
• Abraham Maslow
– Motivation theory
• Human needs
• Human behaviour
• Hierarchy of needs
• Douglas Mc Gregor
– Theory X and Y
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EARLY BEHAVIOUR THEORY
• Mary Parker Follett
– Management is getting things done with and
through other people
– Sharing of empowerment through working
together between employer and employee
– Conflict solution through integration
• Hugo Munsterberg
– Implement psychology approach in organization’s
problem
– Psychology study is very relevant in organizational
behaviour
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CHALLENGES IN
ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR
• Business and industry towards globalization
and international
• Quality is more important
• Society is concern on management ethics
• Increase of diversity among employees
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CHAPTER 3
BEHAVIOURAL THEORIES
OF ORGANIZATION
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DISCIPLINE OF
ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR
• Psychology
• Sociology
• Political science
• Economy
• Ecology
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PSYCHOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE
• Psychology discipline is the most influent
discipline in an organization
• Focus on understanding individual’s behaviour
• Biographic
• Talent
• Personality
• Learning
• Motivation
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SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE
• Focus on group behaviour
• Conflict and counseling
• Communication
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POLITICAL PERSPECTIVE
• Empowerment and authority are part of
political discipline
• Distribution of power
• Direction of attempts to influence:
– Upward
– Downward
– Laterally
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ECONOMICS PERSPECTIVE
• Economics perspective helps managers to
make decision
• Techniques on problem solving
• Decision making:
– Individual
– Group
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ECOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE
• Organization as a sub-system of society
• Environmental factors:
– Suppliers
– Distributors
– Customers
– Competitors
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CHAPTER 4
INDIVIDUAL BEHAVIOUR
IN ORGANIZATION
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ATTITUDES
• Reflects an individual’s background and
experiences
• Components of attitudes:
– Affective component
– Cognitive component
– Behavioural component
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PERCEPTION
• The process by which people select, organize,
interpret and respond to information form the
world around them
• Basic element in the perceptual process:
– Environmental stimuli
– Observation
– Perceptual selection
– Perceptual organization
– Interpretation
– Response
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PERCEPTUAL PROCESS
• The perceptual process is a sequence of steps
that begins with the environment and leads to
our perception of a stimulus and an action in
response to the stimulus.
• The process is continual but we do not spend
time thinking about the actual process that
occurs when we perceive many stimuli that
surround us at any moment
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ENVIRONMENTAL STIMULI
• Everything in our environment that has the
potential to be perceived
• Includes anything that can be seen, touched,
tasted, smelled, heard, movements of the
arms and legs or change in position of the
body in relation to objects in the environment
• Objects and
environment
people
in
the
immediate
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OBSERVATION
• Taste
• Smell
• Hearing
• Sight
• Touch
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PERCEPTUAL SELECTION
• Depends on several factors:
– External factors:
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Size
Intensity
Contrast
Motion
Repetition
Novelty and familiarity
– Internal factors:
• Personality
• Learning
• Motivation
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PERCEPTUAL ORGANIZATION
• Perceptual organization
– Continuity
– Closure
– Proximity
– Similarity
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INTERPRETATION
• Perceptual errors
– Perceptual defense
– Stereotyping
– Halo effect
– Projection
– Expectancy effects
• Attributions
– Internal versus external causes
– Causes for success and failure
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RESPONSE
• Convert
– Attitudes
– Motivations
– Feelings
• Overt
– Behaviour
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COGNITIVE DISSONANCE
• Being used to describe the feeling of
discomfort that results from holding two
conflicting beliefs
• Happens when an individual’s behaviour
conflicts with beliefs that are integral to his or
her self-identity
• How to reduce?
– Focus
– Reduce
– Change
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PERSONALITY TRAITS/ TYPES
• Heredity
• Experience
• Environment
• Situation
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PERSONALITY TRAITS THAT INFLUENCE
ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR
• Locus of control
• Goal orientation
• Authoritarianism
• Machiavellianism
• Self-esteem
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CHAPTER 5
GROUP BEHAVIOUR
IN ORGANIZATION
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WHAT IS A GROUP?
• Members who share goals, communicate with
one another over a period of time
• Group classification:
– Formal group
– Informal group
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FORMAL AND INFORMAL GROUPS
• Formal groups
– Functional group
– Task group:
• Permanent task group
• Temporary task group
• Informal groups
– Interest group
– Friendship group
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WHY PEOPLE JOIN GROUPS?
• Generating ideas
• Networking
• Task completion
– Accuracy
– Speed
– Creativity
– Cost
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GROUP NORMS AND DYNAMICS
• Behavioural norms
– Rules of behavioural that are shared by members
– Main function is to regulate and standardize the
behaviours viewed as important to members
• Performance norms
– Exists when three criteria have been met:
• Standard of appropriate behaviour
• Members must agree on the standard
• Members must aware that group support the standard
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ROLE AND ROLE EXPECTATIONS
• Role
– Cluster of tasks and behaviours that a person
should perform
• Role expectation
– What are you expected to do depending on what
role you obtain
• Example
– If you are a police officer, then as your role as a
police officer you would expected to protect the
country
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GROUP MEMBER ROLES
• Task-oriented role
– Involves facilitating and coordinating work-related
decision making
– Initiating, seeking information, giving information,
coordinating and evaluating
• Relation-oriented role
– Involves building team-centered feelings and social
interactions
– Encouraging members, harmonizing, encouraging
participation, expressing, following
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GROUP MEMBER ROLES
• Self-oriented role
– Involves the person’s self-centered behaviours
that are at the expense of the team or group
– Blocking
progress,
seeking
recognition,
dominating, avoiding
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INFORMAL ORGANIZATION
AND ITS IMPACT
• Informal organization is defined by the
patterns, behaviours and interactions that stem
from personal rather than official relationship
• Emphasis is on people and their relationships
• Workers may create an informal group to go
bowling, form a union, discuss work challenges
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EFFECT OF DIVERSITY
ON GROUP PERFORMANCE
• Poses a threat to the organization’s effective
functioning
• Expressed discomfort with the dominant
group’s values
• Members of the group want to become like
the dominant
• Positive multiculturalism
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CHAPTER 6
ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE AND
ITS IMPACT ON OB
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WHAT IS ORGANIZATION?
• Organizations are formed so that people who
share a common set of values or interest can
work together towards achieving common
objective
• Elements of organization:
– People
– Objectives
– Structure
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WHAT IS ORGANIZATION?
• Amitai Etzioni
– Organization is a social unit or human grouping,
structured for the purpose of attaining specific
goals
• Stoner
– Organization is a pattern of relationships through
which people under direction of managers pursue
their common goals
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WHAT IS ORGANIZATION?
• Vision
• Mission
• Strategy
• Planning
– Short term
– Long term
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ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE
• Distribution and segregation of work
• Organizational chart
• Key factors in organizational structure
– Environmental factors
– Strategic factors
– Technological factors
– Integrative framework
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ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE
• Environmental factors
– Suppliers
– Distributors
– Competitors
– Customers
• Strategic factors
– Low cost
– Differentiation
– Focused
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ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE
• Technological factors
– Technology
– Task interdependence
• Pooled interdependence
• Sequential interdependence
• Reciprocal interdependence
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MECHANISTIC STRUCTURE
• Individuals and functions will behave in
predictable ways
• Characteristic of mechanistic structure
– Clear, well-defined hierarchies of command
– Defined jobs, technologies and processes
– Centralization of decision making
– Specialization, standardization and formalization
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IMPACT OF MECHANISTIC STRUCTURE
ON ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR
• Tightly control the behaviour of employees
• Employees follow extensive impersonal rules
and procedures in making decisions
• Each employee’s job involves specified area of
expertise
• Employees are appointed and not elected
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ORGANIC STRUCTURE
• Characteristic of organic structure
– Low to moderate use of formal rules and
regulations
– Decentralized and shared decision making
– Broadly defined job responsibilities
– Flexible authority structure with fewer levels in
the hierarchy
– Job specialization is low
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IMPACT OF ORGANIC STRUCTURE ON
ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR
• Emphasizes employee competence rather
than employee’s formal position in the
hierarchy
• Flexible hierarchy and empowers employees
to make decision
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NEW FORMS OF ORGANIZATION
• Functional design
– Involves
creation of positions, teams and
departments on the basis of specialized activities
• Place design
– Involves establishing an organization’s primary
units geographically
• Product design
– Involves the establishment of self-contained units,
each capable of developing, producing, marketing
and distributing its own goods or services
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NEW FORMS OF ORGANIZATION
• Multidivisional design
– Tasks are organized by division on the basis of
product/geographic markets
• Multinational design
– Produce and sell products/services in two or more
countries
• Network design
– Focuses on sharing authority, responsibility and
resources
• Virtual design
– Coordinate and link people from many different
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CHAPTER 7
UNDERSTANDING WORK TEAMS
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STAGES OF TEAM DEVELOPMENT
• Forming stage
• Storming stage
• Norming stage
• Performing stage
• Adjourning stage
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FORMING STAGE
• Focus on:
– Defining or understanding goals
– Developing procedures
• Involves
getting
acquainted
and
understanding leadership and other member
roles
• Deal with members’ feelings
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STORMING STAGE
• Manage conflict among members
• This stage may be shortened or can be
avoided if members use a team-building
process from the beginning
• Involves development of decision-making,
interpersonal and technical capabilities
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NORMING STAGE
• Sharing of information,
different options
acceptance
of
• Team members set rules by which the team
will operate
• Developing of cooperation and sense of
shared responsibility
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PERFORMING STAGE
• Team members show how effectively and
efficiently they can achieve results together
• The roles of individual members are accepted
and understood
• At this stage, teams may differ:
– Continue to learn and develop from their
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– May perform only the level needed for survival 61
ADJOURNING STAGE
• Termination of work behaviours
disengagement from social behaviours
and
• Normally happens when team has achieved
their goals
• A problem-solving or a cross-functional team
will investigate and report on specific issue
within 6 months
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DIFFERENCE BETWEEN
GROUPS AND TEAMS
• A group is two or more individuals who come
into personal and meaningful contact on a
continuing basis
• Example: departments, divisions and business
units
• Teams are much smaller than organizational
groups
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TYPES OF TEAMS
• Functional teams
• Problem-solving teams
• Cross-functional teams
• Self-managed teams
• Virtual teams
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FUNCTIONAL TEAMS
• Include individuals who work together daily
on similar tasks
• Exist within functional departments:
– Marketing
– Production
– Finance
– Human resource
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PROBLEM-SOLVING TEAMS
• Focus on specific issues in their areas of
responsibility, develop potential solutions and
empowered to take action within defined
limits
• Members are employees from a specific
department who meet at least once or twice a
week for an hour or two
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CROSS-FUNCTIONAL TEAMS
• Bring together people from various work areas
to identify and solve mutual problems
• Effective in situations that require innovation,
speed and focus on responding to customer
needs
• Members from several specialties or functions
and deal with problems
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SELF-MANAGED TEAMS
• Consist of employees who must work together
effectively daily to manufacture an entire
product or service to customers
• The teams are empowered (potency,
meaningfulness, autonomy and impact)
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VIRTUAL TEAMS
• A group of individuals who collaborate
through various information technologies on
one or more projects while being at two or
more locations
• Work primarily across distance, time and
organizational boundaries
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BUILDING HIGH-PERFORMANCE TEAMS
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Setting clear team goals
Have a plan for improvement
Have clear roles
Clear communication
Team members’ behaviour
Proper procedure for decision making
Equal involvement
Set guidelines for group norms
Understand the group process
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WHY TEAMS FAIL?
• Absence of clear goals
• Poor decision making
• Lack of mutual accountability
• Lots of talking but little action
• Closed minds
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CHAPTER 8
LEADERSHIP AS INFLUENCING THE
BEHAVIOUR OF OTHERS
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MANAGERS AND LEADERS
• Managers:
– Direct the work of others and is responsible for
the results
– Effective managers bring a degree of order and
consistency to the work for their employees
• Leaders:
– Exhibits the attributes of leadership (ideas, vision,
values, influencing others and making decisions)
– Do no perform management functions (planning,
organizing, leading and controling)
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TYPES OF LEADERS
• Transactional leaders
– Involves motivating and directing followers
through contingent reward-based practices
– Three components to achieve performance goals
• Contingent rewards
• Active management by exception
• Passive management by exception
• Charismatic leaders
– Emphasizes shared vision and values
– Promotes shared identity
– Exhibits desired behaviours
– Reflects strength
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TYPES OF LEADERS
• Transformational leaders
– Anticipating future trends
– Inspiring followers to understand and embrace a
new vision of possibilities
– Developing others to be leaders or better leaders
– Building organization or group into a community
of challenged and rewarded learners
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LEADERSHIP STYLES AND THEIR IMPACT
ON ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR
• Hersey and Blanchard’s Situational Model
– Based on the amount of relationship and task
behaviour that a leader provides to subordinates
in a situation
– The amount of relationship and task behaviour is
based on the readiness of the followers to
perform needed tasks
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HERSEY AND BLANCHARD’S
SITUATIONAL MODEL
Relationship Behaviour
High
Participating Style
Selling Style
Delegating Style
Telling Style
Low
Low
High
Task Behaviour
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LEADERSHIP STYLES AND THEIR IMPACT
ON ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR
• Vroom-Jago Leadership Model
– Developed by Victor Vroom, in collaboration with
Phillip Yetton and later Arthur Jago
– Focuses on the leadership role in decision-making
situations
– Prescribers a leader’s choices among five
leadership styles based on seven situational
factors, recognizing the time requirements and
costs associated with each style
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VROOM-JAGO LEADERSHIP MODEL
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LEADERSHIP STYLES AND THEIR IMPACT
ON ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR
• Theory X and Theory Y
– Developed by Douglas McGregor in 1957
– Theory X is a composite of propositions and
underlying beliefs that take a command and
control view of management based on a negative
view of human nature
– Theory Y is a composite of propositions and
beliefs that take a leadership and empowering
view of management based on a positive view of
human nature
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LEADERSHIP STYLES AND THEIR IMPACT
ON ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR
• Managerial Grid
– Developed by Robert Blake and Jane Mouton
– Identifies five leadership styles that combine
different degrees of concern for production and
concern for people
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Impoverished style
Country club
Produce or perish
Middle of the road
Team
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BLAKE MOUTON MANAGERIAL GRID
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LEADERSHIP STYLES AND THEIR IMPACT
ON ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR
LEADERSHIP STYLES AND THEIR IMPACT
ON ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR
BEHAVIOURAL APPROACH TO
LEADERSHIP AND AUTHORITY
• Visionary
• Trustworthy
• Considerate
• Confident
• Charismatic and ethical
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CHANGING LEADERSHIP REQUIREMENTS
• Low level of anxiety
• Emotional stability
• Action orientation
• Confidence
• Openness
• Risk tolerance
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CHAPTER 9
COMMUNICATION AS THE
LIFE BLOOD OF
THE ORGANIZATION
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WHAT IS COMMUNICATION?
• Exchange of information and ideas to create
understanding between two parties
• Not limited to only verbal communication
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IMPORTANCE OF COMMUNICATION
TO ORGANIZATION
• Promotes motivation
• Source of information
• Altering individual’s attitudes
• Helps in socializing
• Controlling process
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COMMUNICATION FLOWS IN
ORGANIZATION
• Downward communication
• Upward communication
• Horizontal communication
• External networking
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COMMUNICATION PROCESS
• Sender (encoder)
– Sender is the source of information and the initiator
of the communication process
– Encoding is the process of translating thoughts or
feelings into a medium (writing, visual or spoken)
that conveys the meaning intended
– Five principles of communication:
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Relevancy
Simplicity
Organization
Repetition
Focus
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COMMUNICATION PROCESS
• Receiver (decoder)
– Receiver is the person who receives and decodes
the sender’s message
– Decoding is translating messages into a form that
has meaning to the receiver
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COMMUNICATION PROCESS
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Sender has an idea
Sender encodes the idea
Sender transmits the message to the sender
Receiver gets the message
Receiver decodes the message
Receiver sends feedback
Noise
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TYPES OF COMMUNICATION
• Interpersonal
• Formal and informal
• Internal and external
• Non-verbal
• Active listening
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GRAPEVINE
• Organization’s informal communication system
• Main features:
– Exist in every organization
– Difficult to eliminate or control
– Spontaneous in nature
– Travels very fast
• Types of chains
– Single-strand chain
– Cluster chain
– Gossip chain
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COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS AND
THEIR EFFECTIVENESS
• Star network
• Y network
• Chain network
• Circle network
• All-channel network
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COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS AND
THEIR EFFECTIVENESS
Factor
Degree
of
centralization
Leadership
predictability
Average group
satisfaction
Range in
individual
member
satisfaction
Star
Very
high
TYPE OF COMMUNICATION NETWORK
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Chain
Circle
All-Channel
High
Moderate
Low
Very low
Very
high
High
Moderate
Low
Very low
Low
Low
Moderate Moderate
High
High
Moderate
Low
High
Very low
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COMMON BARRIERS TO EFFECTIVE
COMMUNICATION
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Noise
Semantics
Language routines
Lying and distortion
Perceptual differences
Language differences
Filtering of information
Poor listening
Information overload
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CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNICATION
• Open communication
• Dialogue
• Crisis communication
• Feedback
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HOW TO IMPROVE COMMUNICATION
• Understand the communication process
• Able to talk and listen
• Respect the receiver
• Establish rapport
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CHAPTER 10
UNDERSTANDING
DECISION-MAKING BEHAVIOUR
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DECISION-MAKING
(HEART OF MANAGEMENT)
• Conscious process of making choices among one
or more alternatives for getting the desired
outcome
• Includes
defining
problems,
gathering
information, generating alternatives and
choosing a course of action
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RATIONAL DECISION-MAKING PROCESS
• Identify the problem or opportunity
• Think of alternative solutions
• Evaluate alternatives and select solution
• Implement and evaluate solution chosen
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NON-RATIONAL DECISION-MAKING PROCESS
• Problem not clearly defined
• Knowledge is limited to possible alternatives
• Choice of a satisfying alternative
• Managerial action
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LIMITS TO RATIONALITY
• Satisficing
• Limited search
• Inadequate information and control
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PARTICIPATION IN DECISION-MAKING
• Known as participative management
• Lighten the burden of the manager
• Makes the employees feel accepted and
appreciated
• Will increase
performance
motivation,
innovation
and
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PARTICIPATION IN DECISION-MAKING
• Factors that can help participative management:
– Top management is continually involved
– Middle and supervisory managers are supportive
– Employees trust managers
– Employees are ready
– Employees do not work in interdependent jobs
– Participative management is implemented with
TQM
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BUILDING DECISION-MAKING SKILLS
• Establish your objective
• Identify alternatives
• Explore alternatives
• Choose
• Check your decision
• Take action
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CHAPTER 11
MOTIVATION PEOPLE FOR
INCREASED PRODUCTIVITY
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WHY MOTIVATE?
• Motivation is a psychological state that exist
whenever internal and / or external forces
stimulate, direct or maintain behaviours
• By understanding employee motivation,
managers can increase productive behaviours,
enables managers to decrease disruptive
behaviours such as tardiness, theft and loafing
• Motivating employees are important to ensure a
productive and harmonious work environment
• Can affect organizational climate
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HOW TO MOTIVATE?
• Through job design
– Motivator factors
– Hygiene factors
• Through performance expectations
– Expectancy model
• Through equity
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STICK AND CARROT APPROACH
STICK AND CARROT APPROACH
• Idiom that refers to a policy of offering a
combination of rewards and punishment to
induce behaviour
• Sometimes it takes both a carrot (goal) and a
stick (motivator) to overcome procrastination
and get the job done
• Most people, rewards work better than
penalties
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MANIPULATING WORKERS
• Most managers engage in some form of
manipulation to get employees to do their best
• An
employer
may
use
inappropriate
manipulation to coerce an employee into doing
something he doesn’t want to do by threatening
or implying some manner of punishment
• Example: threats, fear, bribery, pressure, deceit,
charm
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EXTRINSIC MOTIVATORS
• Factors external to the job
• Includes company policy and administration,
technical supervision, salary, fringe benefits,
working conditions and interpersonal relations
• These factors are associated with an individual’s
negative feelings about job and are related to
the environment in which the job is performed
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INTRINSIC MOTIVATORS
• Directly related to the job and are largely
internal to the individual
• Includes the work itself,
advancement and responsibility
recognition,
• These positive feelings are associated with the
individual’s experiences of achievement,
recognition and responsibility
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WORK DESIGN
• Specification of contents, methods and
relationship of jobs in order to satisfy
technology, social, organizational and personal
requirement of job holders.
• Example:
– Job enlargement
– Job enrichment
– Team management
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REWARDS SYSTEM
• The ability of rewards to motivate individuals or
team depends on six factors:
– Availability
– Timeliness
– Performance contingency
– Durability
– Equity
– Visibility
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MANAGERS’ PERCEPTION
(THEORY X AND THEORY Y)
Theory X managers believe
employees
Theory Y managers believe
employees
• Need to be controlled
• Don’t like work
• Need to be pushed to be
more productive
• Need incentive schemes
• Have to be directed to do
things that they don’t enjoy
• Want to be involved
• Can think for themselves
and make decisions
• Share ownership of tasks
• Will find word more
rewarding
if
given
responsibility and a variety
of tasks
• Have good ideas
• Can engage in some level of
self-management
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SATISFIER AND DISSTISFIER
• Herzberg’s Two-Factor Theory
– Relationship between job satisfaction and
motivation is a complicated one
– He discovered that the presence of a particular job
characteristic, such as responsibility might increase
job satisfaction
– Lack of responsibility didn’t necessarily produce
dissatisfaction
• Hygiene factors
• Motivator factors
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MASLOW’S HIERARCHY OF NEEDS
• Abraham H. Maslow suggested that people have
a complex set of exceptionally strong needs,
which can be arranged in a hierarchy
• Five types of needs:
– Physiological
– Security
– Affiliation
– Esteem
– Self-actualization
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EXPECTANCY THEORY
• Work effort is directed toward behaviour that is
believed to produce desired outcomes
• Effort is employee’s actual exertion of energy
and motivation
• Three concepts of effort level:
– Expectancy
– Instrumentality
– Valence
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CHAPTER 12
UNDERSTANDING ORGANIZATIONAL
CONFLICT AND POLITICS
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ORGANIZATIONAL CONFLICT
• Conflict refers to a process in which one party
perceives that its interests are being opposed or
negatively affected by another party
• Four levels of conflict:
– Intrapersonal
– Interpersonal
– Intragroup
– Intergroup
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ORGANIZATIONAL POLITICS
• When employees are in group, there will be an
individual who will practice power to influence
others in the group
• Influence tactics to gain power that others
perceive to be self-serving behaviour to gain
self-interests
• Can be minimized by providing clear rules for
resource allocation
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WHY CONTROL ORGANIZATIONAL
CONFLICT AND POLITICS?
• Organizational control comprises formal
policies, rules, procedures and records for
preventing or correcting deviations form plans
and for achieving desired goals
• Power in conflict management
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Reward power
Coercive power
Legitimate power
Information power
Expert power
Referent power
Charismatic power
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INSTRUMENTS OF CONTROL
• Preventive Control
– Mechanisms intended to reduce errors and thereby
minimize the need for corrective action
• Corrective Control
– Mechanisms intended to reduce or eliminate
unwanted behaviours or results and thereby achieve
conformity with the organization’s regulations and
standards
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CHAPTER 13
ORGANIZATIONAL RESISTANCE
TO CHANGE
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NEED FOR ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE
• Organizational
change
refers
to
any
transformation in the design or functioning of
an organization
• Degree of change
– Radical change
• Occurs when organizations make major innovations in the
ways they do business
– Incremental change
• An ongoing process of evolution over time, during which
many small adjustments occur routinely
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NEED FOR ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE
• Timing of change
– Reactive change
• Occurs when an organization is forced to change in
response to some event in the external or internal
environment
– Anticipatory change
• Occurs when managers make organizational modifications
based on forecasts of upcoming events or early in the
cycle of a new trend
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CHANGE PROCESS
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Assess the environment
Determine the performance gap
Diagnose organizational problems
Articulate and communicate a vision for the
future
• Develop and implement an action plan
• Anticipate resistance and take action to reduce
it
• The monitor changes
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RESISTANCE OF CHANGE
• Individual resistance
– Perceptions
– Personality
– Habit
– Threats to power and influence
– Fear of the unknown
– Economic reasons
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RESISTANCE OF CHANGE
• Organizational resistance
– Organization design
– Organizational culture
– Resource limitations
– Fixed investments
– Inter-organizational agreements
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MAKING CHANGES IN THE
ORGANIZATION
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Individuals
Teams
Leadership
Organizational systems
Reward systems
Organization design
Culture
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ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
• Management of change and development of
organization
• Comprehensive approach to planned change
that is aimed at improving the overall
effectiveness of organization
• Application of behavioural science knowledge in
a long range effort
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ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
• Four characteristics:
– Profound change
– Value loaded
– Diagnosis cycle
– Process oriented
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CHAPTER 14
IMPACT OF CHANGING ENVIRONMENT
ON ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR
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IMPORTANCE OF CULTURE
• Culture is the unique pattern of shared
assumptions, values and norms that shape the
socialization, symbols, language, narratives and
practices of a group of people
• Elements of a culture
– Assumptions
– Values and norms
– Socialization
– Symbols
– Language
– Narratives
– Practices
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IMPACT OF TECHNOLOGY AND
INFORMATION AGE
• Technological change
– Involves incremental adjustments or radical
innovations that affect work-flows, production
methods, materials and information system
• Information technology
– Comprises complex networks of computers,
telecommunications systems and remote-controlled
devices
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INCREASED CONCERN WITH QUALITY
• Quality control process
– Inputs
– Transformation operations
– Outputs
• Importance of quality
– Positive company image
– Lower costs and higher market share
– Decreased liability
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ENVIRONMENT OF UNCERTAINTY
• Uncertainty avoidance is the extent to which
members of a culture rely on social norms,
procedures and organizations to avoid
ambiguity, unpredictability and risk
• With high uncertainty avoidance, individuals
seek orderliness, consistency, structure,
formalized procedures and laws to cover
situations in their daily lives
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IMPORTANCE OF ETHICS AND SOCIAL
RESPONSIBILITY
• Ethics is a set of values and rules that define
right and wrong conduct
• These values and rules indicate when behaviour
is acceptable and when it is unacceptable
• Four basic forces that influence the ethical
conduct of individuals and organizations
– Cultural forces, legal and regulatory
organizational forces, individual forces
forces,
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IMPORTANCE OF ETHICS AND SOCIAL
RESPONSIBILITY
• Social responsibility holds that managers and
other employees have obligations to identifiable
groups
• Reasons for embracing social responsibility:
– Enlightened self-interest
– Sound investment
– Interference avoidance
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MANAGING DIVERSITY
• Categories of diversity
– Primary categories
– Secondary categories
• Primary categories
– Age
– Race
– Ethnicity
– Gender
– Physical abilities and qualities
– Sexual orientation
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MANAGING DIVERSITY
• Secondary categories
– Education
– Work experience
– Income
– Marital status
– Religious beliefs
– Geographic location
– Parental status
– Personal style
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CHAPTER 15
MANAGING INDIVIDUAL STRESS
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NATURE OF STRESS
• Stress is the excitement, feeling of anxiety and
physical tension
• Stressor is the physical or psychological
demands from the environment that cause
stress
• Stressor create stress or potential for stress
when an individual perceives them as
representing a demand that may exceed that
person’s ability to respond
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PERSONALITY AND STRESS
• Many personality traits are related to stress
• Example:
– Individuals with low self-esteem is more likely to
experience stress in demanding work situations
than is a person with high self-esteem
– Individuals with high internal locus of control may
take more effective action, more quickly in coping
with a sudden emergency than might individuals
with high external locus of control
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SOURCES OF STRESS
• Workload
• Job conditions
• Role conflict and ambiguity
• Career development
• Interpersonal relations
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EFFECTS OF STRESS
• Physiological effects of stress
• Emotional effects of stress
• Behavioural effects of stress
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MANAGING STRESS
• Individual initiatives
– Control the sources of stress
– Be able to cope with stress
• Organizational initiatives
– Reducing work stressors
– Modifying behaviours
– Creating wellness programs
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CHAPTER 16
CULTIVATING
ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE
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DYNAMICS OF
ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE
• Organizational culture:
- represents a complex pattern of beliefs,
expectations, ideas, values, attitudes and
behaviors shared by members of
organization
- includes:
routine ways of communicating
norms shared by individuals and teams
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DYNAMICS OF
ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE
• Organizational culture:
- includes:
dominant values held by organization
philosophy that guides management
rules for getting along in organization
feeling in the organization
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HOW CULTURES EMERGE
• Top management
– Agrees on shared assumptions of human behaviour
– Develops a shared vision of cultural values
• Behaviours
– Employees behave in ways that are consistent with
shared values and assumptions
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HOW CULTURES EMERGE
• Results
– Financial performance
– Market share
– Employee commitment
• Culture
– Strong culture emerges
– Traditions are maintained
– Socialization practices for new employees
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TYPES OF ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE
• Bureaucratic culture
• Clan culture
• Entrepreneurial culture
• Market culture
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BUREAUCRATIC CULTURE
• Values formality, rules, standard operating
procedures and hierarchical coordination
• Its members highly value standardized goods
and customer service
• Managers view their roles as being good
coordinators, organizers and enforces of written
rules and standards
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CLAN CULTURE
• Tradition, loyalty, personal commitment,
extensive
socialization,
teamwork,
selfmanagement and social influence
• Its members recognize an obligation beyond the
simple exchange of labour for a salary
• Members have strong sense of identification
and recognize their common fate in organization
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ENTREPRENEURIAL CULTURE
• High levels of risk taking, dynamism and
creativity
• Commitment to experimentation, innovation and
being on the leading edge
• Not only quickly react to changes in the
environment but it creates change
• Provide new and unique products and rapid
growth
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MARKET CULTURE
• Achievement of measurable and demanding
goals, especially those that are financial and
market-based (sales growth, profitability and
market share)
• Hard-driving competitiveness and a profit
orientation prevail throughout the organization
• Relationship
between
organization is contractual
individual
and
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ETHICAL BEHAVIOUR AND
ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE
• Impact of culture
– Organizational culture involves a complex interplay
of formal and informal systems that may support
either ethical or unethical behaviour.
– An important concept linking organizational culture
to ethical behaviour is principled organizational
dissent, by which individuals in an organization
protest, on ethical grounds, some practice or policy
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ETHICAL BEHAVIOUR AND
ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE
• Whistle-blowing
– Disclosure by current of former employees of illegal,
immoral or illegitimate organizational practices to
people or organizations that may be able to change
the practice
– The whistle-blower lacks the power to change the
undesirable practice directly and so appeals to other
either inside or outside the organization
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FOSTERING CULTURAL DIVERSITY
• Challenges
• Characteristics of effective diversity culture
– Managers and employees must understand that a
diverse
workforce
will
embody
different
perspectives and approaches to work
– Managers must recognize learning opportunities
and challenges
– Organizational culture must create an expectation of
high standards of performance and ethics
– Organizational culture must stimulate personal
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– Organizational culture must encourage openness 164
SOCIALIZATION OF NEW EMPLOYEES
• Organizational socialization is the systematic
process by which an organization brings new
employees into its culture.
• Steps in socialization
– Careful selection
– Challenging early work assignments
– Training to develop capabilities with culture
– Rewards that sustain culture
– Adoption of cultural value policies
– Ritual, taboos, rites and stories to reinforce culture
– Role model to sustain culture
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