MAN 3025 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8- 9: Adhocracy, Organizational Culture, Startup Company
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Mod 6, ch8 (9)- culture, structure, and design. To implement a strategy, managers must determine (1) organizational culture and (2) organizational structure, which mutually influence each other. It is challenging to align the organization"s vision and strategies with its organizational culture and organizational structure: organizational culture: the shared assumptions that affect how work gets done. Culture- the shared set of beliefs, values, knowledge, and patterns of behavior common to a group of people. Organizational culture (corporate culture)- set of shared, taken-for-granted implicit assumptions that a group holds and that determines how it perceives, thinks about, and reacts to its various environments. These are the beliefs and values shared at workplace the significantly affect work: organizational structure: who reports to whom and who does what. Organizational structure - formal system of task and reporting relationships that coordinates and motivates an organization"s members so that they can work together to achieve the organization"s goals.
