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Henry Mintzberg identified 10 kinds of specific roles that capture the dynamic nature of managerial
work based on the responsibility (decisional, personal, informational)
A department is a group of people who work together and posses similar skills or use the same
knowledge tools, or techniques to perform their job.
Levels of management
– First-line managers (supervisors) are responsible for the daily supervision of nonmanagerial
employees
– Midde managers supervise first-line managers and is responsible for finding the best way to
organize human and other resources to acieve organizationa goals.
– Top managers establish organizational goals, decide how departments should interact, and
monitors the performance of middle managers. They are responsible for all departemnts (cross-
departmental responsibility)
The chief executive officer (CEO) is a company's most senior and important manager. The chief
operating officer (COO) takes over the current CEO when he/she retires or becomes the chair of the
board. The top management team of company is a group composed of the CEO, COO, the president
adn the heads of the most important departments, and is most responsible for achieving goals.
Theory X (negative)
– Average employee is lazy, dislikes work, tries to do as little as possible
– Managers should closely supervise to ensure employees work hard
– Managers should create strict rules and a well-defined system of rewards and punisment
Theory Y (positive)
– Employees aren't inherently lazy. Given the chanche, they will do what is good for the
organization
– Managers should create a work setting that provides opportunities to exercise initiative and
selfdirection
– Managers should decentralize authority to employees and make sure they have the resources
to achieve organizational goals. No control, but support and advice
Organizational Environment Theory: the set of forces and conditions that operate beyond an
oganization's boundaries but affect a manager's ability to acquire and utilize resources.
The Open-Systems View by Daniel Katz
A system that takes in resources from its external environment and converts them into goods and
services that are then sent back to that environment for purchase by customers.
Input stage contains; raw materials, money and capital, human resources. Conversion stage
contains; machinery, computers and human skills. Output stage: Goods & Services. Sales of output
allow organization to obtain new supplies of inputs. Closed system is a system that is self-
contained and thus not affected by changes occurring its external environment. Entropy is the
tendency of a closed system to lose its ability to control itself and thus to dissable and disintegrate.
Performance gains that result when individuals and departments coordinate their action, is called
synergy.
Contingency Theory by Tom Burns. Contingency means a future event or circumstance that is
possible but cannot be predicted with certainty.
The idea that organizational structures and control systems managers choose are contingent on
characteristics of the external environment in which the organization operates. Characteristics of the
environment determine the design of an organization's structure and control system.
– Mechanic structure (theory X): centralized authority, vertical communication flows,
control through strict rules and procedures. Organizations in stable environment, example
Mc Donalds.
– Organic structure (theory Y): changing environment-decentralized, horizontal
communication, cross-departemental cooperation, example Google.
Values describe what managers are trying to achieve through work and how they think they should
behave.
→ terminal value: a lifelong goal or objective that an individual seeks to achieve (often leads to
formation of norms). Examples; freedom, true friendship. They signify what an organization and its
employees are trying to accomplish.
→ instrumental value: a mode of conduct that an individual seeks to follow (honest, polite)
Value system is the terminal and instrumental values that are guiding principles in an individual's
life. They guide how the organization and its members achieve organizational goals.
An attitude is an collection of feeling and beliefs. Job satisfaction is the collection of feelings and
beliefs. Job satisfaction is the collection of feelings and beliefs that managers have about their
current jobs. It's desirable for managers to be satisfied with their job, because;
1. Satisfied managers are more likely to go to the extra mile for their organization or perform
organizational citizenship behaviors (OCB); behaviors that are not required of organizational
members but that contribute to and are necessary for organizational efficiency, effectiveness and
competitive advantage.
2. Satisfied managers are less likely to quit. Organizational commitment is the collection of
feelings and beliefs that managers have about their organization as a whole.
A mood is a feeling or state of mind, positive: excited, enthusiastic ↔ negative: distressed, nervous.
Emotions are intense, relatively short-lived feelings.
Emotional intelligence is the ability to understand and manage one's own moods and emotions and
other people. It can help managers to understand how they are feeling and why, and they are more
able to effectively manage their feeling it also helps to perform their important role.
Organizational culture is the shared set of beliefs, expectations, values, norms and work routines
that influence how individual groups and tams interact with one another and cooperate to achieve
organizational goals.
The attraction-selection-attrition (ASA) framework is a model that explains how personality may
influence organizational culture. When founders hire employees for their new ventures, they tend to
be attracted to and choose employees whose personalities are similar to their own.
Organizational culture is maintained and transmitted to organizational members through;
– the values of the founder: the organization's founder and his values have a huge impact on
the values, norms and standard of behavior within an organization
– the proces of socialization: organizational socialization is the process by which newcomers
learn an organization's values and norms and acquire the work behaviors necessary to
perform job effectifely.
– ceremonies and rites: formal events that recognize incident of importance to the
organization as a whole and to specific employees.
1. rites of passage – how the individuals enter, advance within, and leave the organization. This
learns and internalizes norms and values, ex. office parties
2. rites of integration build and reinforce common bonds among organizational members, ex. annual
award
3. rites of enhancement motivate commitment to norms and values, ex. presentation of annual
award
– stories and language: stories about organizational heroes or the characteristics slang or
jargon (organization specific words or phrases).
The people and groups affected by how a company its managers behave are called stakeholders.
These people and groups supply a company with its productive resources and so have a claim on
and stake in the company. Types of company stakeholders:
1. Stockholders have a claim on a company, because when they buy stocks or shares they
become its owners. They are interested in how a company operates because they want to
maximize the return on their investments.
2. Managers are responsible for using a company's financial, captial and human resources to
increase its performance and thus its stockprice
3. Ethics and nonprofit organzions have to face many issues, like fair compensation. By
introducing new rules and regulations to monitor and oversee how nonprofits spend their
funds, experts hope this will result in much more value being created from the funds.
4. Employees expect to receive rewards consistent with their performance
One principal way that a company can act ethically toward employees is by creating an
occupational structure that fairly and equitably rewards employees for their contribution.
– Supplies and distributors. Every company is in a network of relationships with other companies
– Customers are often regarded as the most critical stakeholder group because if a company can't
attract them to buy its products, it can't stay in business. Many laws protect customers from
companies that attempt to provide dangerous or shoddy products
– Community, society and nation. Community refers to the physical location (city), through salaries
a company contributes to the economy of its town a organzation affects the community.
Managers can use four ethical rules of principles to analyze the effects of their business decisions
on stakeholders. These rules are useful guidelines that help managers decide on the appropriate way
to behave in situations where it is necessary to balance a company's self-interest and the interests of
its stakeholders.
– Utilitarian rule is an ethical decision that produces the greatest good for the greaters number of
people (ex. outsourcing)
– Moral rights rule is an ethical decision that best maintains and protects the fundamental or
inalienable rights and privileges of the people affected by it. (ex. harm the safety or health)
– Justice rule is an ethical decision that distributes benefits and harms among people and groups in
a fair, equitable, or impartial way (same salary for people who are similar in their level)
– Practical rule is an ethical decision that a managers has no reluctance about communicating to
people outside the comapny because the typical person in a society would think it is acceptable.
ethically.
There are four main determinants of differences in ethics between people, employees, companies
and countries
1. Societal ethics are standards that govern how members of a society should deal with one another
in matters involving issues such as fairness, justice. People in a particular country may
automatically behave ethically, because they have internalized certain values, beliefs and norms.
2. Occupational ethics are standards that govern how mombers of a profession, trade or craft
should conduct themselves when performing work-related activies (medical ethics → how doctor
should treat)
3. Individual ethics are personal standards and values that determine how people view their
responsibilities to other people and groups and thus how they should act in situations when their
own self interests are at sake
4. Organizational ethics are the guiding practices and beliefs through which a company and its
managers view their responsibility toward their stakeholders.
A company's stance (attitude) on social responsibility is the way a company's mangers and
employees view their duty or obligation to make decisions that protect, enhance, and promote the
welfare and well-being of stakeholders and society as a whole (spending money in trainings)
There are four approaches to social responsibility (low → high)
– Obstructionist approach in which companies and their managers choose not to behave in a
socially responsible way and instead behave unethically and illegally (tabaco companies
hide evidence that smoking causes cancer)
– Defensive approach in which companies and their managers behave ethically to the degree
that they say within the law and strictly abide by legal requirements (managers selling stocks
in advance)
– Accomodative approach in which companies and their managers behave legally and
ethically and try to balance the interest of different stakeholders as the need arises (BMW)
– Proactive approach in which companies and their managers actively embrace socially
responsible behavior, going out of their way to learn about the needs of different stakeholder
groups and using organizational resources to promote the interest of all stakeholders
(recycling)
Why be socially responsible? It helps a company build a good reputation, the quality of life as a
whole increases and it determines society values and norms and the ethics of its citizens.
Employees naturally look to those in authority to provide leaderships. Ethics ombudsperson is a
manager responsible for communicating and teaching ethical standards to all employees and
monitoring their conformity to those standards.
Perception
Perception is the process through which people select, organize, and interpret what the see, hear,
touch, smell, and taste to give meaning and order to the world around them.
Bad decisions concerning diversity include; not hiring qualified people, failing to promote top-
performing subordinates, promoting poorly performing managers
Schemas are abstract knowledge structures stored in memory that allow people to organize and
interpret information about a person, event, or a situation. Schemas tend to be reinforced and
strenghtened over time because the information attended to is seen as confirming the schemas.
Gender schemas are a person's preconceived beliefs or ideas about the nature of men and women
and their traits, attitudes, behaviors, and preferences.Throught inaccurate perceptions diverse
organizational members are treated unfairly. Stereotype is a simplistic and often inaccurate beliefs
about the typical characteristics of particular groups of people. Inaccurate perceptions leading to
unfair treatment of diverse members of an organization also can be due to biases.
Biases are systematic tendencies to use information about others in ways that result in inaccurate
perceptions. These are divided in different effects;
– Silimar-to-me effect; the tendency to perceive others who are similar to ourselves more
positively than we perceive people who are different.
– Social status effect; the tendency to perceive individuals with high social statut more
positively than we perceive those with low social status.
– The salience effect; the tendency to focus attention on individuals who are conspiciously
different from us. The salient individuals are more often the object of attention than are other
members of a workgroup.
Overt discrimination is knowingly and willingly denying diverse individuals access to
oppurtunities and outcomes in an organization.
Sexual Harassment
– Quid pro quo sexual harassment: asking for or forcing an employee to perform sexual
favors in exchange for receiving some reward of avoiding negative consequences.
– Hostile work environment sexual harassment: telling lewd jokes, displaying pornography,
making sexually oriented remarks about someone's personal appearance, and other
sexrelated actions that make the work environment unpleasant.
Managers can deal with this problem, by:
1. Develop and clearly communicate a sexual harassment policy endorsed by top management
2. Use a fair complaint procedure to investigate charges of sexual harassment
3. When it has been determined that sexuals harassment has taken place, take corrective
actions as soon as possible
4. Provide sexual harassment education and training to all organizational members, including
managers
Barriers to entry are factors that make it difficult and costly for a company to enter a particular
task environment or industry. The higher the barriers to entry, the fewer the competitors in an
organization's task environment and thus the lower the threat of competition.
• Economies of scale: the cost advantages associated with large operations (manufacturing
products in very large quantities)
• Brand loyalty: customers' preferences for the products of organizations currently existing in
the task environment (Apple & Google)
Intense rivalry among competitors creates a task environment that is highly threating and makes it
increasingly difficult for managers to gain access to the resources an organization needs to make
goods and services. Low rivalry results in a task environment where competitive pressures are more
moderate and managers have greater opportunities to acquire the resources they need to make their
organizations effective.
society or from the national culture, for example diversity. Social structure is the traditional system
of relationships established between people and groups in a society (caste system in India/social
classes in France). National culture is the set of values that a society considers important and the
norms of behavior that are approved or sanctioned in that society. (individuals in USA/Japan).
Demographic forces are outcomes of changes in, or changing attitudes toward, the characteristics
of a population, such as age, gender, ethnic origin and social clasess (aging process in
organizations)
Political and legal forces are outcomes of changes in laws and regulations, such as increased
environmental protection.
A tariff is a tax that a government imposes on goods imported into one country from another. The
aim of a tariff is to protect domestic industries and jobs from overseas competition by raising the
price of these products from abroad.
The free-trade doctorine predicts that if each county agrees to specialize in the production of the
goods and services that it can product most effictiently, this will make the best use of global capital
resources and will result in lower prices. This will make the best use of global resources.
The lowering of barriers to trade and investment and the decline of distance and culture barriers has
created enormous oppurtunities for companies to expand the market for their goods and services
through export and investments in overseas countries. The growth of regional trade agreements
presents opportunities and threats for managers and their organizations.
Hofstede developed five dimensions along which national countries cultures can be placed.
• Individualism vs collectivism.
Individualism is a worldview that values individual freedom and self-expression and adherence
(attachment) to the principle that people shoud be judged by their individual achievements rather
than by their social background (ex. personal succes)
Collectivism is a worldview that values subordination of the individual to the goals of the group
and adherence to the principle that people should be judged by their contribution to the group.
• Power distance is the degree to which societies accept the idea that inequalities in the
power and well-being of their citizens are due to differenes in individuals' physical and
intellectual capabilities and heritage.
High power distance – societies in which inequalities are allowed to persist or grow over time. The
gap between rich and poor grows (Panama)
Low power disance – large inequalities between citizens are not allowed to develop by using taxes
this problem can be solved (The Netherlands)
• Achievement vs nurturing orientation
Achievement orientation is a worldview that values assertiveness, performance, success and
competition.
Nurturing orientation is a worldview that values the quality of life, warm personal friendships,
and services and care for the weak.
• Uncertainty avoidance is the degree to which societies are willing to tolerate uncertainty
and risks.
Low on uncertainty avoidance are societies which are easygoing, value diversity (USA)
High on uncertainty avoidance are more rigid and skeptical about different people (France)
• Long-term vs short term orientation
Long-term orientation is a worldview that values thrift (saving) and persistence in achieving goals
(Hong Kong)
Short-term orientation is a worldview that values personal stability or happiness and living for the
present (USA). There citizens tend to spend more and save less.
Decision making: the process by which managers respond to opportunities and threats
by analyzing options and making determinations about specific organizational goals and courses of
action
→ Programmed decision – routine, virtually automatic decision making that follows established
making rules or guidelines
→ Nonprogrammed - nonroutine decision making that occurs in response to unusual,
decision making unpredictable opportunities and threats
During making decisions, managers may rely on intuition or make a reasoned judgment.
Intuition: feelings, beliefs and hunches that come readily to mind, require little
effort and information gathering, and result in on-the-sport decisions
Reasoned judgment: a decision that takes time and effort to make and results from careful
information gathering, generation of alternatives and evaluation of alternatives
Classical decision-making model: a prescriptive approach to decision making based on the
assumption making model that the decision maker can identify and evaluate all possible alternatives
and their consequences and rationally choose the most appropriate course of action
Optimum decision: the most appropriate decision in light of what managers believe to
be the most desirable future consequences for the organization
Administrative model: an approach to decision making that explains why decision making is
inherently uncertain and risky and why managers usually make satisfactory rather than optimum
decisions
There are 6 steps that a manager should consciously follow to make a good decision:
1. Recognize the need for a decision
2. Generate alternatives
3. Assess alternatives
4. Choose among alternatives
5. Implement the chosen alternative
6. Learn from feedback
3. Asses alternatives. Managers use 4 criteria to evaluate the + and - of alternative course of
action:
1. Legality: a possible course of action must be legal and will not violate any domestic and
international laws or government regulations
2. Ethicalness: a possible course of action must be ethical and will not unnecessarily harm any
stakeholder group
3. Economic feasibility: the alternative must be economically feasible
4. Practicality: managers must have the capabilities and resources to implement the alternative, and
they must be sure that the alternative will not threaten the attainment of other organizational goals
BLZ 228&229
Groupthink is a pattern of faulty and biased decision making that occurs in groups whose members
strive for agreement among themselves at the expense of accurately assessing information relevant
to a decision.
A technique known to counteract groupthink is devil’s advocacy (critical analysis of a preferred
alternative, made in response to challenges raised by a group member who, playing the role of
devil’s advocacy, defends unpopular or opposing alternatives for the sake of argument). Dialectical
inquiry contains critical analysis of two preferred alternatives in order to find an even better
alternative for the organization to adopt.
Another way to improve group decision making is to promote diversity in decision-making
groups.
Organizational learning is the process through which managers seek to improve employees’
learning desire and ability to understand and manage the organization and its task environment
Learning organization is an organization in which managers try to maximize the ability of
individuals and groups to think and behave creatively and thus maximize the potential for
organizational learning to take place.
Creativity: a decision maker’s ability to discover original and novel ideas that
lead to feasible alternative courses of action
Innovation = the implementation of creative ideas in an organization
To encourage creativity at the group level, organizations can make use of group problemsolving
techniques that promote creative ideas and innovative solutions.
– Brainstorming is a group problem-solving technique in which managers meet face-to-face to
generate and debate a wide variety of alternatives from which to make a decision. Production
blocking: a loss of productivity in brainstorming sessions due to the unstructured nature of
brainstorming
– Nominal group technique (brainstorming first for their own, discuss their ideas in
the group and then rank the alternatives)
– Delphi technique (a decision-making technique in which group members do not meet face-to-
face but respond in writing to questions posed by the group leader)
Planning
Planning is about trying to forecast and predict the future in order to be able to anticpate future
oppurtinities and threats. Three steps in planning: determining the organization's mission and goals,
formulating strategy, implementing strategy (by allocating organizational resources)
– Planning is necessary to give the organization a sense of direction and purpose.
– Planning is a useful way of getting managers to participate in decision making about the
appropiate goals and strategies for an organization
– A plan helps coordinate managers of the different functions and divisions of an organization
to ensure that they all pull in the same direction adn work to achieve its desired future
outcomes
– A plan can be used as a device for controlling managers within an organization
Plans differ in their time horizons, the periods of time over which they are intended to apply or
endure. Long term plans (5 years of more), intermediate-term (one and five years), short-term (one
year or a less).
Effective plans have 4 qualities; unity, continuity, accuracy, and flexibility. Scenario planning
(contingency planning) is the generation of multiple forecasts of future conditions followed by an
analysis of how to respond effectively to each of these conditions.
Strategic leadership is the ability of the CEO and top managers to convey a compelling vision of
what they want the organization to achieve to their subordinates.
Strategy formulation is the development of a set of corporate, business, and functional strategies
that allow an organization to accomplish its mission and achieve it goals.
SWOT analysis is a planning exercise in which managers identify internal organization Strengths,
Weaknesses and external Opportunities and Threats. Based on a SWOT analysis maangers select the
best strategies.
Hypercompetition applies to industries that are characterized by permanent, ongoing, intense
competition brought about by advancing technology or changing customer tastes.
By differentiating the product or lowering the costs mangers increase the value of a product. Four
kinds of strategies.
1. low-cost strategy
2. differentation strategy focuses on distinguishing an organization's products from the
products of competitors
3. Focused low-cost strategy is serving only one segment of the overall market and trying to be
the lowest-cost organization.
4. Focused differentiation strategy is serving only one segment of the overall market and trying
to be the most differentiated organization. (ex. Customers in northern Europe/children)
International Expansion
Global strategy contains selling the same standardized product and using the same basic marketing
approach in each national market. Multidomestic strategy contains customizing products and
marketing strategies to specific national conditions.
Choosing a way to expand internationally
– importing: selling products at home that are made abroad
– exporting: marking products at home and selling them abroad
– licensing (manufacturing companies): allowing a foreign organization to take charge of
manufacturing and distributing a product in its county or world in return for a negotiated fee.
– franchising (serving organizations): selling to a foreign organization the rights to use a brand
name and operating know-how in return for a lump-sum payment and a share of its profit.
– strategic alliance: an agreement in which managers share their organization's resources and
know-how with a foreign company, and the two organizations share the rewards and risks of
starting a new venture.
– joint venture: a strategic alliance among two or more companies that agree to jointly
establish and share the ownership of a new business
– wholly owned foreign subsidary: production operations established in a foreign country
independent of any local direct involvement.
A company's value chain is the coordinated series or sequence of functional activities necessary to
transform inputs such as new product concepts, raw materials, component parts, or professional
skills into the finished goods or services customers value and want to buy. Functional activities and
the value chain:
– Product development function is the engineering and research activities involved in
innovating a product.
– Marketing function is to persuade customers that the product meets their needs and convince
them to buy it.
– Materials management function controls the movement of physical materials from the
procurement of inputs through production and to distribution and delivery to the customer.
– Production function is responsible for creating, assembling, or providing a good or service.
– Sales function plays a crucial role in locating customers and then informing and persuading
them to buy the company's products.
– Customer service function is to provide after-sales service and support
– Feed back loop.
Value chain managemt is the development of a set of functional-level strategies that support a
company's business-level strategy and strengthen it competitive advantage.
Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is a technique that uses IT, database, to develop an
ongoing relationship with customers to maximize the value an organization can deliver to them over
time.
Improving Quality
Total Quality Management (TQM) focuses on improving the quality of an organization's products
and services. One TQM technique called Six Sigma is a technique used to improve quality by
systematically improve how value chain activities are performed and then using statistical methods
to measure the improvement.
Inventory is the stock of raw materials, input and component parts that an organization has on hand
at a particular time. Just-in-time (JIT) inventory system is a system in which parts or supplies
arrive at an organization when they are needed, not before. JIT inventory systems have major
impllications for efficiency. Great cost saving can result from increasing inventory turnover and
reducing holding costs.
In difference with TQM the Six Sigma technique doesn't emphasizes top-down organizationwide
employee involvement, but creates teams of expert change agents.
Improving Efficiency
Facilities layout is the strategy of designing the machine-worker interface to increase operating
system efficiency. There are three ways of arranging workstations;
1. Product layout – machines are organized so that each operation needed to manufacture a
product is performed at workstations arranged in a fixed order.(mass production; cars)
2. Process layout – each workstation is relatively self-contained, and a product goes to
whichever workstation is needed to perform the next operation to complete the product.
(customized products; furniture).
3. Fixed-position layout – the product stays in a fixed position, it's component parts are
produced in remote workstations and brought to the production area for final assembly
(montage), example jet airlines
Flexible manufacturing is the set of techniques that attempt to reduce the costs associated with the
product collection process or the way services are delivered to customers. Flexible manufacturing
aims to reduce the costs associated with the product assembly process or the way services are
delivered to customers.
Process reengineering involves the fundamental rethinking and radical redesign of business
processes to achieve dramatic improvement in critical measure of performance such as cost, quality,
service and speed.
Improving innovation
1. Quantum product innovation – the development of new, often radically different, kinds of
goods and services because of fundamental shifts in technology brought about by pioneering
(research) discoveries.
2. Incremental product innovation – the gradual (slow) improvement and refinement of
existing products that occurs over time as existing technologies are perfected.
Product development is the management of the value chain activities involved in bringing new or
improved goods and services to the market. Stage 1: New product ideas are written up as brief
proposals, which are submitted to a cross-functional team of managers who evaluate each proposal.
Stage 2: Draft a detailed product development plan – a plan that specifies all of the relevant
information that managers need in order to decide whether to proceed with a full-blown product
development effort. Stage 3: Sign a contract book – a written agreement that details product
development factors such as responsibilities, resource commitmens, budgets, timelines.
– Involve both customers and suppliers
– Establish a stage-gate development funnel: a planning model that forces managers to choose
among competing projects so organizational resources are not spread thinly over too many
projects.
– Establish cross-functional teams. Coremembers are the members of a team who bear
primary responsibility for the success of a project and who stay with a project from
inception to completion.
Organizational architecture is the organizational structure, control systems, culture, and human
resource management systems that together determine how efficiently and effectively organizational
resources are used.
Organizational design is the process by which managers make specific organizing choises that
result in a particular kind of organizational structure.
Job design is the process by which managers decide how to divide tasks into specific jobs. Job
simplification is the process of reducing the number of tasks that each worker performs.
Job enlargement: increasing the number of different tasks in a given job by changing the division of
labor. Job enrichment: increasing the degree of responsibility a worker have over his or her job.
By providing skill variety, task identity, task signifance organizational members experience
meaningfulness of work.
By providing autonomy (the degree to which a job gives an employee the freedom and discretion
needed to schedule different tasks and decide how to carry them out) organizational members
experience responsibility for work outcomes.
By providing feedback organizational members gain knowledge of the results of their works. This
causes high motivation, performance, high satisfaction.
Matrix structure – an organizational structure that simultaneously groups people and rescources by
function and by product.
Product team structure – an organizational structure in which employees are permanently assigned
to a cross-functional team and report only to the product team manager or to one of his direct
subordinates. Cross-functional team is a group of managers brought together from different
depertments to perform organizational tasks.
A new computer company whose culture is based on values of excellence and innovation may try to
attain this high standard by encouraging workers to adopt norms about being creative, taking risks
and working hard.
Adaptive cultures are those whose values and norms help an organization to build momentum and
to grow and change as needed to achieve its goals and be effective.
Intert cultures are those whose values and norms fail to motivate or inspire employees.
Clan of control is the control practiced on individuals and groups in an organization by shared
values, norms, standards of behavior, and expectations.
Organizational change is the movement of an organization away from its present state and toward
some preferred future state to increase its efficiency and effectiveness.
Need to improve operations – mangers must balance the need for an organization to improve the
way it currently operates and the need for it to change in response to new, unanticipated events –
need to respond to new events.
Force-field theory: a wide variety of forces arise from the way an organization operates that make
organizations resistent to change.
Evolutionary change is gradual (slow), incremental, and narrowly focused. It's a constant attempt
to improve, adapt, and adjust strategy and structure incrementally to accommodate changes taking
place in the environment.
Revolutionary change is rapid, dramatic and broadly focused.
Human resource planning – determine recruitment and selection needs – job analysis
Human resourse planning are the activities that managers engage in to forecast their current and
future needs for human resources.
Recruitement includes all the activities managers engage in to develop a pool of qualified
candidates for open positions. Selection is the process by which managers determine the relative
qualifications of job applicants and their potential for performing well in a particular job.
Job analysis is the process of identifying the tasks, duties and responsibilities that make up a job and
the knowledge, skills, and abilities needed to perform the job.
appraisal information with subordinates, give subordinates an opportunity to reflect on their own
performance, and develop plans for the future.
Types of performance appraisal: trait appraisals (personal), behavior appraisals (actual actions and
behaviors), results appraisals, objective (numerical) and subjective appraisals (perception of traits,
behaviors, or results)
Formal appraisals are conducted at a set time during the year and based on performance
dimensions and measures that were specified in advance. Informal appraisals are unscheduled
appraisal of ongoing progress and areas for improvement.
Paystructure is the arrangement of jobs into categories reflecting their relative importance to the
organization and its goals, levels of skill required, and other characteristics.
Cafeteria-style benefit plan is a plan from which employees can choose the benefits they want.
Labor relations are the activities managers engage in to ensure that they have effective working
relationships with the labor unions that represent their employees' interests. Collective bargaining
is negotiation between labor unions and managers to resolve conflicts and differences.
Expectancy theory is the theory that motivation will be high when workers believe that high levels
of effort lead to high performance and this leads to the attainment of desired outcomes.
Effort (an important input) → performance → outcomes
Expectancy is a perception about the exent to which effort results in a certain level of performance.
Instrumentality is a perception about the exent to which performance results in the attainment of
outcomes. Valence is how desirable each of the outcomes available from a job or organization is to a
person (pay).
Need theory is a theory of motivation that focus on what needs people are trying to satisfy at work
and what outcomes will satifsy those needs.
– Maslow's hierarchy of needs: an arrangement of five basic needs that motivate behavior.
Physiological needs – Safety needs – Belongingness needs – Esteem needs – Self-actualization
needs
– Alderfer's ERG Theory: the theory that 3 universal needs (existence, relatedness, growth)
constitute a hierarchy of needs and motivate behavior.
– Herzberg's motivator-hygiene theory: a need theory that distinguishes between motivator needs
(relate to the nature of the work itself) and hygiene (related to the physical an psychological context
in which the work is performed) and proposes that motivator needs must be met for motivation and
job satisfaction to be high.
– McClelland's needs for achievement, affiliation, and power.
Equity theory is a theory of motivation that focuses on people's perceptions of the fairness of their
work outcomes relative to their work inputs. Equity is the justice, impartiality and fairness to which
all organizational members are entitled (outcomes/inputs). Inequity is lack of fairness.
Underpayment inequity = when a person's own outcome-income ratio is less than that of a referent.
Goal-setting theory is a theory that focuses on identifying the types of goals that are most effective
in producing high levels of motivation and performance and explaining why goals have these
effects.
Learning theories are theories that focus on increasing employee motivation and performance by
linking the outcomes that employees receive to the performance of desired behaviors and the
attainment of goals.
– Operating conditioning theory: the theory that people learn to perform behaviors that lead
to desired consequences and learn not to perform behaviors that lead to undesired
consequences. By four tools: positive reinforcement, negative refinforcement (removing
undesired outcomes when people perform organizationally functional behaviors), extinction
(limit the performance of dysfunctional behaviors by elimating whatever is reinforcing
them) and punishment. Organizational behavior modification (OB MOD) is the
systematic application of operant conditioning techniques to promote the performance of
organizationally functional behaviors and discourage the performance of dysfunctional
behaviors.
– Social learning theory is a theory that takes into account how learning and motivation are
influenced by people's thoughts and beliefs and their observations of other people's behavior.
Vicarious learning: learning that occurs when the learner becomes motivated to perform a
behavior by watching another person performing it an being reinforced for doing so.
Self-reinforcement: any desired or attractive outcome or reward that person gives himself
for good performance.
Self-efficacy: a person's belief about his or her ability to perform a behavior successfully.
Merit pay plan is a compensation plan basing pay on performance. Employee stock option is a
financial instrument that entitles the bearer to buy shares of an organization's stock at a certain price
during a certain period or under certain conditions.
Chapter 14 Leadership
Leadership is the process by which a person exerts influence over other people and inspires,
motivates, and directs their activities to help achieve group or organizational goals. A servant
leader is a leader who has a strong desire to serve and work for the benefit of others.
Sources of managerial power:
1. Legitimate power (conforming to the rules): the authority that a manager has by virtue
(high moral standards) of his or her position in an organization’s hierarchy.
2. Reward power: the ability of a manager to give or withhold tangible and intangible
rewards
3. Coercive power (compulsory): the ability of a manager to punish others
4. Expert power: power that is based on knowledge, skills, and expertise that a leader
possesses.
5. Referent power: power that comes from subordinates and coworkers respect, admiration
and loyalty.
Empowerment is the process of giving employees at all levels the authority to make decision.
Trait model: Focused on identifying the personal characteristics that cause effective
leadership.
Behavior model: 2 basic kinds of leader behaviors: consideration and initiating
structure. Consideration: Behavior indicating that a manager trusts, respects, and cares about
subordinates. Initiating structure: Behavior that managers engage in to ensure that work gets done,
subordinates perform their jobs acceptably, and the organization is efficient and effective.
Fiedler’s contingency model: (effectiviteit van leiderschap afhankelijk is van (in termen van
Fiedler "contingent is met") kenmerken van de leider en van de situatie waarin de leider optreedt.)
Leader style:
- Relationship-oriented leaders: Leaders whose primary concern is to develop good
relationships with their subordinates and to be liked by them.
- Task-oriented leaders: Leaders whose primary concern is to ensure that subordinates
perform at a high level.
Situational characteristics:
- Leader-member relations: The extent to which followers like, trust, and are loyal to
their leader, a determinant of how favorable a situation is for leading.
Task structure: The extent to which the work to be performed is clear-cut so that a
leader’s subordinates know what needs to be accomplished and how to go about doing it; a
determinant of how favorable a situation is for leading.
- Position power: The amount of legitimate, reward, and coercive power that a leader has
by virtue of his/her position in an organization; a determinant of how favorable a situation is for
leading.
Path-goal theory: A contingency model of leadership proposing that leaders can motivate
subordinates by identifying their desired outcomes, rewarding them for high performance and the
attainment of work goals with these desired outcomes, and clarifying for them the paths leading to
the attainment of work goals.
Path-goal theory identifies 4 kinds of leadership behaviors:
1. Directive behaviors; 2. Supportive behaviors; 3. Participative behaviors; 4. Achievement-oriented
behaviors.
Leadership substitute model suggest that leadership is sometimes unnecessary because substitutes
for leadership are present. Leadership substitute: A characteristic of a subordinate or of a situation
or context that acts in place of the influence of a leader and makes leadership unnecessary.
Transformational leadership: Leadership that (1) makes subordinates aware of the
importance of their jobs and performance to the organization and (2) aware of their own needs for
personal growth and (3) that motivates subordinates to work for the good of the organization.
Charismatic leader: An enthusiastic, self-confident leader who is able to clearly
communicate his or her vision of how good things could be.
Intellectual stimulation: Behavior a leader engages in to make followers be aware of
problems and view these problems in new ways, consistent with the leader’s vision.
Developmental consideration: Behavior a leader engages in to support and encourage
followers and help them develop and grow on the job.
Transactional leadership: Leadership that motivates subordinates by rewarding them
for high performance and reprimanding them for low performance.
Differences between groups and teams: the intensity of the team members which work together and
the presence of a specific, overriding team goal or objective. Formal groups: a group that managers
establish to achieve organizational goals. Informal groups: a group of organizational members form
to help achieve their own goals and meet their own needs.
Synergy means that people working in a group can produce more or higher-quality outputs than
individuals. Research and developments teams are teams whose members have the expertise and
experience needed to develop product. Command group is a group composed of subordinates who
report to the same supervisor (also called department or unit). Self-managed work teams are teams
in which member are empowered and supervise their own activities and monitor the quality of the
goods and services they provide.
Virtual teams are teams whose members rarely or never meet face-to-face but interact by using
various forms of information technology.
Task interdependence: the degree to which the work performed by one member of a group
influences the work performed by other members.
- Pooled: when group members make separate and independent contributions to group
performance.
- Sequential: when group members must perform specific tasks in a predetermined order
- Reciprocal: when the work performed by each group member is fully dependent on the work
performed by other groups members.
Group role is a set of behaviors and tasks that a member of a group is expected to perform because
of his or her position in the group. Role making: taking the initiative to modify an assigned role by
assuming additional responsibilities. Group development:
1. Forming: get to know each other and create common understanding
2. Storming: group members experience conflicts and disagreements
3. Norming: group member arrive at a consensus about their goals
4. Performing: the real work of the group gets accomplished
5. Adjourning: the group is dispersed.
Group norms are shared guidelines or rules for behavior that most group members follow, which
need to contribute to group performance and the attainment of group goals. Deviance is the fact or
state of departing from usual or accepted standards, especially in social or sexual behavior.
Group cohesiveness is the degree to which members are attracted to or loyal to their group.
Consequences of group cohesiveness: level of participation within a group increases, just like the
level of conformity to group norms and emphasis on group goal accomplishment.
Social loafing is the tendency of individuals to put forth less effort when they work in groups than
when they work alone. Reduce social loafing by making individual contribution, emphasizing the
valuable contributions and keeping group size at an appropriate level.