BBA102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Egalitarianism, Centralisation, Ingroups And Outgroups
14 Sep 2018
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A system of shared beliefs and values that develops within an organisation and guides the behaviour of its members. The globe projects nine cultural dimensions: power distance, uncertainty avoidance, institutional collectivism, in-group collectivism, gender egalitarianism, assertiveness, future orientation, performance orientation, humane orientation. Organisations is a system of consciously coordinated activities or forces between two or more persons (barnard, 1938) Social units (or human groupings) deliberately constructed and reconstructed to seek special goals (etzioni, 1964) Designs of boundary less organisations: hallow structure. The organisation has a central core of key functions and outsources other functions to vendors who can do them cheaper or faster: modular structure. Firm assembles product chunks, or modules provided by outside contractors: virtual structure. A company created specifically to respond to an exceptional market opportunity that is often temporary. Structure and culture in mechanistic and organic organisations. An organisation may be either mechanistic or organic.
