BU398 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Resource Depletion, Team Building, Administrative Domain
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Macro sustainability is forcing orgs to change (population, natural resources depletion ) Things orgs can change to adapt to the changes in the external environment. All these strategies are interrelated and associated with human dynamics. You change one thing you may have to change multiple others. But requires radical changes if want instant effect/ impact. Refer back to bsn ( before environment: b, after radical change: n, b being the 3rd) To be both organic and mechanistic, managers implement an ambidextrous model. Change is needed to adapt to the environment, stability is needed to allow efficient production processes. Boundary spanners tells us information what needs to be adapted. Skunkworks: a small company within the organization that comes up with creative ideas (secretive) Horizontal coordination model marketing people-> customer needs , r&d (technology development) -> boundary spanners. Learning org: working with customers to gain more knowledge. Ideas or needs ( to create a new product)
