COMM 292 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Microsoft Powerpoint

• School: UBC
• Department: Commerce
• Course: COMM 292
• Professor: Svedic, Zorana

Document Summary

Competing values framework: helps us identify some of the most useful skills, by classifying them in the dimensions of internal-external and flexibility-control. Internal-external dimension - inwardly toward employee needs and concerns and/or production processes and internal systems. Outwardly, toward such factors as the marketplace, government regulations, and the changing social, environmental, and technological conditions of the future. Being open minded, looking into the future. Imagining possible new directions for the organization. Control: maintaining a status quo and keeping things as they are. What kinds of skills does the competing values framework suggest are useful for individuals to have? the range of issues organizations face can be divided along two dimensions: To be an effective contributor in one"s company, one should strive to be proficient with the multiple facets that are highlighted in the competing values framework. In order to improve, one must practice the areas that they are weak in. Inspire loyalty and caring through the involvement of all employees;