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Organizational Theory (Fach) / Chapter seven (Lektion)
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- Organizational Culture set of norms and values
- Terminal values A desired end state or outcome that people seek to achieve
- Inst. values A desired mode of behavior
- Strategy Time specific pattern of decisions and actions, use of core competences to achieve competetvice advantages
- Core advantages skills and abilities in value creation
- Sources of Core competences (2) Functional resources -skills by functional pesonell Organizational resources -skills of top-management -->between both there should be an ability to coordinate
- Functional level Strategy to strengthen functional and organizational resources and coordination abilities
- 1. Business level Strategy 2. Two ways A plan to combine core competences in order to position the organization so there is a competetive advantage in its domain low-cost/differentiation
- Corporate level Strategy using core competences to also expand to new domains
- 1. Global Expansion Strategy 2. three types of strategies 1. plan to choose best strategy to obtain scarce resources and develop core competences 2. multidomestic, international, global
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- Mass Production Org. technology uses a standardized process to manifacture goods
- Craft work groups of skilled workes who interact closely-custom designed
- Tasks Variability Number of new exeptions that a person encounters while performing a task
- Task analyzability degree to which activity is needed to solve a problem
- Organic structure mall-batch, craftwork
- Mechanic Structure Mass Production
- Organizational Birth Founding of an organization--> greatest chance of failure
- Liability of Newness The dangers associated with being the first in a new environment
- A population Ecology Model of Organizational Birth A theory that seeks to explain the factors that affect the rate of which new organizations are born in a population of existing organizations 1. factor: as new organizations are created, there is increase in knowledge and skills available to generate similar new organizations 2. factor: new organization that survives serves as a role model
- Institutional Theory A theory that studies how organizations can increase their ability and survive in a competetive environment by satisfying their stakeholders
- Organizational Decline The life cycle stage that an organizations enters when it fails to anticipate, recognize, avoid, neutralize or adapt to external or internal pressures that threaten its survival
- Five Stages in Weitzel and Jonsson*s Model for org. Decline Bunded Inaction Faulty Action Crisis Disolution