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Components
Organizations have physical structures , but these alone do
not define organizations. The social fabric-norms,roles and
cultures- is a significant influence on the conduct of
organization members.
Global Organizations
3.Communcations
The American Psychological Association(2003) recognizes
that organizations are now being designed that include wide cultural
variability.
Cross-Cultural I/O Psychology: Four dimensions
on which culture can differ
1. Power Distance
refers to the extent to which less powerful
members of an organization expect and accept power
that power is distributed unequally.
2. Individualism – Collectivism
Individualism- refers to the belief that people in a
society primarily look after themselves and their family
members.
Collectivism- is the belief that people in a society are
integrated into a strong, cohesive in-groups, which throughout
their lifetime protect them in exchange for unquestioning
loyalty .
4. Uncertainty Avoidance
the extent to which members of a culture fell threatened by
uncertain or unknown situations.
Organizational Change
Organization Development
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Vice President Vice President
Production Sales
Manager Manager
Top Chart Of an Organizational Chart After
Downsizing
President
Vice President
Sales Manager
1. Meaning
Individuals feels of sense of meaning when
an activity counts in his or her own value system.
Empowered individuals derive personal significance
from their work. They get energized about a given
activity and thus become connected through a sense
of meaning.
2. Competence
Empowered individuals have a sense of self-effectiveness
or personal competence. They believe that they have only
the needed skills abilities but also the confident that they
Six Sigma
• Comprehensive approach to organizational change that
is based on the behavioral concepts and the used of
statistical information to aid in decision making.
• Derived from the statistical power of the normal
distribution.
• Sigma is the term associated with the standard
deviation, the statistical index that reveals the spread or
the variability of scores in a distribution.
• To understand how much variability exists in the quality
of the products or services a company offers and to
reduce the variability that results in customer
dissatisfaction.
• Method of improving business processes using statistical
information to achieve greater customer satisfaction.
Five Critical Phases of Process Improvement
1. Define
first step is to define the organization’s customers,
their requirements and the key organizational processes
that affect them.
2. Measure
Many variables can be measured but the most critical
to the customer are the ones that should be measured.
3. Analyze
to determine why the processes is not performing as
desired.
4. Improve
organization should determine the potential solutions
to improve upon the processes that are causing customer
5. Control
last phase is to develop, document, and implement a
strategy to ensure that performance improvement remains
at the desire level.
Overcoming Organizational resistance to Change
Change introduces ambiguity into the environment, with the
concomitant effects of less predictabilty control.
self Individuals
disposition
Psychological toward
ownership of the change of
organization organizati
on
Additive (+)
organization
Vs.
Subtractive
change(-)
Evolutionary vs. revolutionary change
evolutionary change involves incremental
modifications to the organization, and as consequence, it
does not suddenly alter the individuals understanding of,
or relationship to, organization.
revolutionary change challenges the individuals
understanding of the organization because the change
alters the organization’s existing structure.
Additive vs. Subtractive Change
changes may add things to the organization or take
them away