BU398 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - International, Ford Focus, Accounting
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In summary: organizations are: social entities, goal directed, deliberately structured & coordinated, and linked to the environment, theories are tools that we can use to understand and design organizations, org. Theory can make you a better organizational designer and decision maker. Ideally for every subsystem of the organization: 6 types of operative goals, performance, resources, market, employees. Innovation & change: productivity, research on goal-setting theory provides lots of evidence that goals affect motivation and performance, goals affect employee behaviour when, they are smart, specific, measurable, attainable, relevant and timely, self-efficacy is high, employees have feedback. Informal vs official: respect: we treat others as we would like to be treated ourselves. we do not tolerate abusive or disrespectful treatment. ruthlessness, callousness, and arrogance don"t belong here. Mission culture- focused more on the external, but not a lot changing in the environment. Everything geared around goals- clear purpose, everyone with operative goals, employees graded based on them- hypergoal focused (mountain equipment co-op)
