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| Omnipotent view of management |
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| the view that managers are directly responsible for an organization's success and failures |
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| Symbolic view of management |
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| the view that much of an organizations succes or failure is due to external forces outside manager's control |
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| the shared values, principles, traditions, and ways of doing things that influence the way organizational members act |
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| organizational cultures in which the key values are intensely held and widely shared |
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Values are no widely understood
Culture sends contradictory messages about whats improtant |
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| the process that helps employees adapt to the organization's culture |
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| How employees learn culture |
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Stories
Rituals
Material Symbol
Language |
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| Goran Ekvall Innovative culture characteristics |
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Challenge and involvement
Freedom
Trust and openness
Idea Time
Playfullness and humor
conflict resolution
debates
risk taking |
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| a feature of a culture wehre organizational values promote a sense of purpose through meaningful work that takes place in the context of community |
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5 cultural characteristics of spiritual organizations
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Strong sense of purpose
Focus on individual development
Trust and Oppenness
Employee Empowerment
Toleration of Employee Expression |
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| Factors and forces outside and organization that affect the organizations performance |
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| external factors that have a direct impact on managers decisional and actions and are directly relevant to the achievement of an organizations goals |
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| Main factors that make up for specific environment |
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Customers
Suppliers
Competitors
Pressure groups |
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| broad external conditions that may affect and organization |
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| General environmental factors |
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Economic conditions
Political/Legal conditions
Sociocultural conditions
demographic conditions
Technological conditions
Global conditions |
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| Environmental uncertainty |
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| the degree of change and complexity in an organizations environment |
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| The number of components in an organization's environment and the extent of the organizations knowledge about those components |
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| any constituencies in an organizations environment that are affected by the organizations decisions and actions |
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| Seven dimensions of organizational culture |
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attention to detail
outcome orientational
people oriented
team oriented
agressiveness
stability
innovation and risk taking |
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