Organizational studies

worked to make their vision and strategies become a strength for the organization (Jureviciu, 2013). However, in terms of weaknesses, GM tends to be high cost and have care recalls due to similar issues such as the ignition switch issue in this case study (Jureviciu, 2013). Their bureaucratic culture is also a hindrance on the organization as it…

This paper focuses on one of the most important point in an organization—employee motivation. As a sustaining goal-directed behavior, employee motivation affects organization’s turnover rate and organizational effectiveness. In order to increase company’s productivity, understanding how to raise employee motivation is crucial. Based on the six needs, managers can increase the motivation by fulfill employees’ needs, create incentives, communicate, and empower employees. Every coin has two sides.…

This case study demonstrates a good case scenario in an organization functioning. It also gives us an idea of what is needed to be done or keep stabilizing or improving an organization. In order to keep Keiser University succeeding, it is imperative to hire someone with the right qualifications to get the job done. Along with the qualification, the person has to be able to fit the office environment and what the office individuals are familiar with. This will still cause a change in the…

overall success and long-term sustainability. A recent study from Berkeley concluded: “...firms that focus on and cultivate a culture that members agree about and that specifically focuses on adaptability will grow faster financially than their competitors” (Chatman, 2012). In order to determine a company 's culture and whether or not it exemplifies Berkeley 's recipe for the most prosperous type of business, one can utilize the Organizational Culture Profile framework and assess that company…

Organizational behaviors (OB) will always be a major role identifying the effectiveness of a functioning organizations. In order to understand OB you have to have a complete understanding on how organizational behavior works. “Organizational behavior describes an interdisciplinary field dedicated to understanding and managing people at work.” (Pg. 4) To describe OB it is a study of factors that affect how people and groups act, think, feel, and work in an organization. OB is critical in…

leadership styles covering those that inspire to those that intimidate. Two main approaches to leadership are transactional, popular in the 1950s through the 1970s, and transformational, more recently noted (Ott, Parkes, & Simpson, 2008). Over the years, study of these approaches, and leadership in general, discuss giving orders (Follett, 1926), functions of leaders (Barnard, 1984), the Contingency Model (Fiedler, 1966), what makes a leader and their character…

The collective part in this theory is how "the groups create a process that consistently sustains a negotiated temporary system which measures organizational boundaries involving independent stakeholders with a variation of capabilities including resources, knowledge and expertise which is directed toward individual goals and mutually beneficial accountable and innovative ends” (Walker & Stohl, 2004)…

(2010), Organizational culture is dynamic and linked to every member in the organization. While some of these members’ behaviors catch up with the culture, the others might be against the complex set of message and meaning led by the organizational culture. Multinational companies or Internet companies are typically bothered by the organizational culture construction, as they evolved into global business widely. For instance, Google once failed to enter Chinese market as its organizational…

Richard Nordquist (2017) articles delineate the concept of Organizational metaphor as a figurative comparison utilized while redefining the significant aspects of an Organization and while explaining the operation methodologies applied by the Company. On a different perspective, Gareth Morgan’s (1997) manuscript identifies different organizational metaphors described to be authentic and which include organization as machine, 'organization as organism,' 'organization as brain,' 'organization as a…

authors Altbach, P., Gumport, P., and Berdahl, R. (2011) and Organizational Theory in Higher Education by Manning, K. (2012) have given greater knowledge and understanding of the American higher education issues and organizational theories. Altbach et al. (2011) stated, higher education institution have changed and adapted to new circumstances, with the most significant changes occurring in curriculum and diversity (p. 16). Organizational theory has been in used in education and other…