According to the book Society: The Basics, social change can be defined as, “the transformation of culture and social institutions over time” (Macionis, 2006, p. 451). There are four main causes of social change: cultural change, conflicts, changes in ideas, and demographic changes (Macionis, 2006). Four primary stages of a social change are “emergence, coalescence, bureaucratization, and decline” (Macionis, 2006). Social movements have shaped the United States and social movements will continue…
not enough to maintain an organization’s continued profitability. Many organizations fail to perform the introspection and environmental analysis needed to develop and institute changes to keep the company current; ultimately, this can lead to organizational decline and even death, if not corrected (Jones, 2012, p. 321). This paper sets out to examine one organization that enjoyed a prolonged period of immense a success, yet from found itself suffering from a slow and painful decline due to its…
Meghan Oliver wrote an article titled, How to Change the World by Changing Your Culture. In the beginning of the article, Oliver states that “only certain types of cultures ae linked to employee engagement and satisfaction, quality of service, and organizational sustainability” (Oliver, 2014). In the article, Oliver describes the challenge…
INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION In today’s modern era, interpersonal communication plays a very major role in our lives. Interpersonal communication is the core essence of a relationship. It defines an individual role in a relationship. It teaches us how to communicate with different people and be able to adjust to their culture and circumstances. Interpersonal communication has its nature, elements and principles which are applicable everywhere. Interaction and effective communication plays a…
I. Introduction Drucker, P. F. (1967). The effective executive (1st ed.). New York: HarperBusiness Essentials. “No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.” - Peter F. Drucker The Effective Executive is one of the most important books in management by Peter Drucker. It is considered to be a classic. Since its first publication, it gained…
Introduction: The Leader Management Exchange theory is also known as LMX theory or LMET theory. This theory has dyadic relationship (two way relationship) between managers and members. It explains the role of the leadership in the organization. How a leader interacts with the team members or the subordinates and how the relationships between them works. The LMX was introduced in 1970. As the name suggests, the main focus of this theory is the interaction between the organization managers/leader…
Introduction According to Ohmer & DeMasi, 2009, the aim of a consensus organizer is to develop the abilities or the skills of others to effect change. Consequently, the focus of the consensus organizing lies on the current assets and the strengths the communities have. The uniqueness of the community organizing lies on bridging of the relationship with the external associates through the recognition and identification of mutual interest. Apparently, the accomplishment of a consensus organizer is…
paradigms by creating strategies that mismatch with conformist reflection. On the hand, Richard Branson is a transformational leader. His style of leadership creates a vision to guide change through inspiration. He executes the change with the commitment of the members of the group (Scully 2008). This form of leadership is concerned with improving the performance of followers individually to their fullest potential. Branson augments the motivation, morale, and performance of followers through…
Recruitment and selection are two of the core processes of HRM in an organisation. The main difference in these processes is very clear as they all occur at different stages and entail different sub-processes to them. In order to highlight these differences we shall look at the definitions of the two as a starting point. According to Rees and French (2010), recruitment is the process of generating a pool of capable people to apply for employment to an organisation whereas election is the…
The proposed study would investigate the relationship between the two types of workplace deviance, organizational and interpersonal, and the individual facets of job satisfaction. These two variables can interact and produce harmful effects for various aspects of an organization such as productivity and cohesiveness. Researching these variables can help organizations solve the many problems they may have with satisfaction and deviance. It is hypothesized that co-worker satisfaction will…