Management and Organizational Studies 2181A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Pareto Analysis, Job Design, Team Building

• School: Western University
• Department: Management and Organizational Studies
• Course: Management and Organizational Studies 2181A/B
• Professor: Tony Francolini

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All organizations face two basic sources of pressure to change: external sources. The change in the way people listen to music. Goals and strategies: organizations frequently change their goals and their strategies they use to reach the goal. Technology: technological changes vary from minor or major. Job design: companies can redesign individual groups of jobs to offer more or less variety, autonomy, identity, significance and feedback. Structure: organizations can be modified from a functional to a product form or vice versa. Processes: the basic processes by which work is accomplished can be changed. Culture: organizational culture refers to the shared beliefs, values and assumptions that exist in an organization. Unfreezing: the recognition that some current state of affairs is unsatisfactory. Change: the implementation of a program or plan to move the organization or its members to a more satisfactory state. Refreezing: the condition that exists when newly developed behaviours, attitudes, or structures become an enduring part of the organization.