Organizational Structure and Culture Nur/492 March 11‚ 2013 Organizational Structure and Culture Organizational structure is described as the establishment of authority and the arrangement of the work group. Classical theorists developed the concept of departmentalization as a means to maintain command‚ reinforce authority‚ and provide a formal system for communication (Sullivan & Decker‚ 2009). The design of an organizational structure can be vertical or horizontal. Work is subsequently
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negotiation. And all these problems had a bad influence on the international connect. The case also has left us two questions. The first is that whether the different between high context culture and low context culture is that important and whether the difference will destroy the negotiation if one can’t handle it properly. The second question is that whether the only solution for the conflict is to give up one’s own culture and accept everything in another culture. The first question So let’s first deal
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The impact of culture and law on Organizational Behaviour Introduction In the era of globalization more and more managers are confronted with ever increasing need to interact with different cultural and law situations. Not only the environment where the organization is operating‚ the management‚ the workforce‚ the suppliers and the customers can be coming from different cultures. So when they strive together to achieve the objectives of the organization there various cultural influence and the influence
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Organization: Hewlett – Packard (HP) Organization Culture: The organization culture of Hewlett-Packard is also known as “The H-P Way”. Within the context of “The H-P Way”‚ the employees of the organization together with the management are expected to follow a saying “Don’t Be Evil”. The H-P Way is supposedly to be honest in all its operations and in all of the information coming out from the business organization. But‚ one cannot remove the fact that not all information are going out and being
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Ancient Greeks thought themselves as “one people.” Greek people had the same religion‚ language and culture. Young men and women from the Greek city states were sent compete in the Olympic Games. Ancient Greek was divided into several independent city states (Polis). Even though Greeks thought themselves as one people‚ politically they defended their independence from each other. Relation between Greeks and Phoenicians increased during ninth century B.C.E. Geeks adopted the Phoenicians alphabets
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The Difference Between the Celebrity Influence and the Parental Influence During our lives we are under the influence of several persons. Since birth‚ the family and parents play an important role in the influence and the development of our attitudes and behavior. The children behavior towards their parents would show the impact of the influence of the celebrities on them. As children grow up‚ they discover celebrities who will influence the way they look‚ the way they dress and the way they
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Managing Organizational Culture The challenges encountered by the Copenhagen-based company SACC (Scandinavian Architect Consulting Company) after the acquisition of several firms around Europe can be explained using Hofstede’s theory. Comparing different countries‚ he found that there are 4 dimensions of national culture within the organizational culture. The 4 dimensions are power distance‚ uncertainty avoidance‚ individualism and masculinity. SACC’s top management has chosen to implement their
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mythology has a big influence on our culture‚ arts and literature. At first these stories were passed in an oral way (told from person to person)‚ but later they used representational ways to preserve it‚ using vases‚ paints‚ murals‚ drawings on plates‚poems‚ etc. The oldest source of stories we know it’s on the epic poem "The Odyssey". We have always wonder about what we don’t know‚ like the why and how we are in this planet‚ why we are alive‚ and more. And well‚ every culture
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The Organizational Culture that Exists Within Google Google has one of the most interesting organizational cultures. They are not only one of the fastest and most useful web search engines around; they are also one of the top 100 companies to work for according to Fortune (2007). Google strives to have the fastest‚ most reliable search engine on the web and in order to accomplish this; Google has to hire employees that are the best in their technological field. Google rewards their employee ’s
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Decision-making: How does culture influence decisions? A model of consumer decision reflects the cognitive‚ or problem-solving‚ consumer‚ and to some degree the emotional consumer. Culture is a major influencer of decision-making. How one is brought up‚ the society‚ the values all factor how an individual thinks. Malaysia is known for its rich‚ cultural background and the deep history behind it. The model has three major components: input‚ process and output. The input component of the consumer
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