Why do large organizations tend to have larger ratios of clerical and administrative support staff? Why are they typically more formalized than small organizations?
Why do you think organizations feel pressure to grow?
Look through several recent issues of a business magazine such as Fortune, BusinessWeek, or Fast Company and find examples of two companies that are using approaches to busting bureaucracy. Discuss the techniques these companies are applying.
Government organizations often seem more bureaucratic than for-profit organizations. Could this partly be the result of the type of control used in government organizations? Explain.
Numerous large financial institutions, including Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch, experienced significant decline or dissolution in recent years. Which of the three causes of organizational decline seems to apply most clearly to these firms?
Do you think a “no growth” philosophy of management should be taught in business schools? Discuss.
Week 17 Revision, terms and final test
COMPANY ANALYSIS #5
THE ANALYSIS OF COMPANY LIFY CYCLE (ORGANIZATION STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT)
A) As organizations evolve through the four stages of the life cycle, changes take place in structure, control systems, innovation, and goals. Identify 4 stages for the company that you analyze. Provide timing, specific features, refer the features to the characteristics from the table (Organizational characteristics during the life cycle)describe what actions have been taken for further development.
B) Most companies experience significant decline or dissolution. Identify one example of this trend in the company that you analyze. Which of the three causes of organizational decline described above seems to apply most clearly to your example? Explain why. What has been done by the management of the company to avoid final, “no choice” stage?
TERMS for the final test.
Globalization
Ethical scrutiny
Diversity
Organization
Value creation
External environment
Transaction costs
Division of labor
Formalization
Specialization
Hierarchy of authority
Centralization
Professionalism
Personnel ratios
Organizational technology
The organization’s goals and strategy
Organizational culture
Organizational structure
Organizational design
Organizational change
Efficiency
Effectiveness
Stakeholder approach
A stakeholder
The mechanistic model
The organic model
Organizational goal
Strategic intent
The mission
Competitive advantage
Company’s core competence
| Operative goals Goal approach
Resource – based approach
Internal process approach
Balanced scorecard
Vertical Information Sharing
Horizontal Information Sharing
Functional Design
Divisional Design
Geographic Design
Matrix Structure
Horizontal Structure
Hybrid Structure
Organizational Environment
Domain
Task environment
Environment uncertainty
Environment complexity
Differentiation
Integration
Business ecosystem
Extended enterprise
Core business
Entrepreneurial stage
Collectivity stage
Formalization stage
Elaboration stage
Bureaucracy
Formalization Centralization
Bureaucratic control
Rational-legal authority
Traditional authority
Charismatic authority
Market control
Clan control
Organizational decline
Organizational atrophy
Organizational vulnerability
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TEMPLATE
ORGANIZATIONAL THEORY 2015-2016.
IBS PLEKHANOV. 1ST YEAR. MARKETING SPECIALIZATION.
FINAL TEST ON MODULE 1 NAME__________MAX 30 P /RECEIVED_______VARIANT 1
SUBJECT QUESTIONS (MAX 10, 2.5 EACH) – give structured explanation, provide knowledge-based answers, present comparative analysis, if applicable, demonstrate wise use of examples:
1. Choose the appropriate structural dimensions from the list and give short explanation to at least two. Formalization, Specialization, Hierarchy of authority, Centralization, Size, Organizational technology, Environment, Organizational culture.
2. Mechanistic and organic structure (5 issues) Give explanation.
3. How does uncertainty of environment influence the organization (2 options)? Give explanation and provide examples
4. Formalization stage of organizational development. 5 main points (D__of L____, L____of P_____s, F_______d s_____s, M_______E_______, D______ with c________)
Give additional examples to 3 points
TERMS AND EXPLANATIONS (MAX 10, 2,5 EACH) – give academic explanation. Provide your additional explanation, if needed.
5. Efficiency
6. Divisional Design
7. Bureaucracy
8. Operative goals
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS (MAX 10, 5 EACH) – discuss the questions, provide alternatives, sound out your position, back it up with knowledge-base explanation.
9. Give examples of companies successfully using the combination of bureaucracy and market control
10. Do you think a “no growth” philosophy of management should be taught in business schools?
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