Ethnocentrism Ethnocentrism is the tendency to look at the world primarily from the perspective of one’s own culture. Ethnocentrism often bring about the belief that one’s own race or ethnic group is the most important and/or are superior to those of other groups. Ethnocentrism can have both a positive and negative effect in one’s personal life. “On the positive side‚ it creates in-group loyalties. On the negative side‚ ethnocentrism can lead to discrimination against people whose ways differ
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Organizational Technology Integration Evaluation Model Leopoldo E. Madrigal University of Phoenix An organizational technology integration model will be proposed using a specific case in the automotive industry‚ one that took place in 1998. A consideration to be noted is the potential that the proposed model could had been used successfully at the time of the presented case’s implementation as it may be used today in any situation to assess technology efficiency. Antecedents
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UNDERSTANDING ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE Deepak K. Agrawal‚ College of Business‚ Wayne State College 1111 Main‚ Wayne‚ NE 68787‚ deagra01@wsc.edu ABSTRACT Culture has significant impact on the organization. People of an organization learn the national culture as they grow up. It is very deeply rooted in their lives because of the fact that they learned and followed such culture for a very long period of time. It is also based on shared attitudes‚ beliefs‚ customs‚ written and unwritten rules that
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3 Organizational Culture and Performance The concept of organizational culture has drawn attention to the long-neglected‚ subjective or ‘soft’ side of organizational life. However‚ many aspects of organizational culture have not received much attention. Instead‚ emphasis has been placed primarily on the cultural and symbolic aspects that are relevant in an instrumental/pragmatic context. The technical cognitive interest prevails. Culture then is treated as an object of management action. In this
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How Culture Affects Productivity Organizational culture and productivity are closely related. Simply stated‚ productivity is the art of getting the company ’ ’s products and/or services to the customer at the lowest possible cost. But it is more than that - it is related to quality‚ to customer needs and to labour relations. In other words‚ productivity and good management are inseparable. Productivity is a result of motivation‚ and motivation thrives in a good climate. If management is to transform
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Changing Organizational Cultures Introduction An organization’s culture is a combination of the founder’s beliefs‚ values‚ ideas‚ and norms. Every organization is different and presents a different culture for its employees and customers. With most organizations the culture is strong and very difficult to change. Within these organizations there are dominate cultures and well formed subcultures. In the few organizations remaining‚ changing the organizational culture is easier‚ but requires
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Organizational culture and change: Explain how a strategic approach can be taken to deal with employee absence problem? In order to improve the absence problem of the organization‚ Human Recourses (HR) manager have to change both the company policies and employees manner toward the absence problem. So‚ in order to make the change more efficient‚ HR managers can use those change models such as Lewin’s Model and Kotter’s Eight-Step Model. In this case‚ the report will apply Kotter’s Eight-Step Model
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Organizational Structure and Culture Marsha Ruckle Senior Practicum/492 May 13‚ 2013 Janice Cochran Organizational Structure and Culture Every facility has an authority structure within the organization that is the foundation for the oversight of delegating processes and expected outcomes. Without structure there is a potential for chaos to ensue‚ communication to be inhibited‚ thereby preventing goals from getting accomplished. Organizational structure
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Organizational Strategy‚ Structure‚ and Process^ RAYMOND E. MILES University of California‚ Berkeley CHARLES C. SNOW The Pennsylvania State University ALAN D. MEYER University of Wisconsin‚ Milwaukee HENRY J. COLEMAN JR. University of California‚ Berkeley Organizational adaptation is a topic that has received only limited and fragmented theoretical treatment. Any attempt to examine organiza-^ tional adaptation is difficult‚ since the process is highly complex and changeable. The proposed theoretical
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Article Identification/ Critique: Organizational Culture in China --An Analysis ofCulture Dimensions and Culture Types This article studies about organizational culture in China through the analysis of culture dimensions and culture types. It divides firms in China into three distinctive types- state-owned companies‚ private domestic companies and foreign-invested companies. It uses three studies to answer the questions whether organizational culture varies among three types of firms and whether
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