MHR 841 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Incident Command System, Conflict Resolution, The Home Depot
4 Mar 2018
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Chapter 8: organization size, life cycle, and decline. Some histories of nortel: founded in 1895, supplied the white house with its phone system in 1980s, national r&d champion in canada, one of canada"s few world-class enterprises, 94,500 employees, market value accounted for 1/3 of tse. Investors who lost billion as nortel shares became worthless. Organizational life cycle: life cycle a perspective on organizational growth and change that suggests that organizations are born, grow older, and eventually die, stages are sequential and follow a natural progression. In centralized organizations, decisions tends to be made at the top. Interpreting culture: rites and ceremonies, stories, symbols, language. Innovation, creditability, and risk taking are valued and rewarded. Clan culture: primary focus on the involvement and participation of the organization"s members and on rapidly changing expectations from the external environment, focuses on the needs of employees as the route to high performance.
