Chapter 22 - Managing And Leading During Organization Change Flashcards
85/15 Rule
Proposes that 85% of problems encountered are a result of faulty systems and only 15% are due to unconscientious or unproductive employees.
Administrative Management Theory
A subdivision of classical management theory that emphasizes the total organization rather than the individual worker and delineates the major management functions.
Authority
The right to make decisions and take actions necessary to carry out assigned tasks.
Autocratic leadership
Leadership where the manager makes the decisions without others’ input and gives very specific directions.
Balanced Scorecard (BSC)
A strategic planning tool that identifies performance measures related to strategic goals.
Brooks’ Law
States that adding people actually slow down team productivity due to different work styles, low team cohesion, and learning curve orientation to the task time.
Bureaucracy
A formal organizational structure based on a rigid hierarchy of decision making and inflexible rules and procedures.
Business Process Reengineering (BPR)
The analysis and design of the workflow within and between organizations.
Champion
An individual within an organization who believes in an innovation or change and promotes the idea by building financial and political support.
Change Agent
A specialist in an organization development who facilitates the change brought about by the innovation.
Change Driver
Large-scale forces such as demographic, social, political, economic, technical, and global information factors that require organizations to revise how they operate.
Cognitive complexity
The ability to see the many parts of the problem, processing conflicting information, and integrate that diversity into a coherent picture.
Complex Adaptive system
The complexity of structures and processes involved in healthcare, and the ongoing changes and rearrangements of these structures and processes.
Conceptual Skills
One of the 3 managerial skills that includes intellectual tasks and abilities such as planning, deciding, and problem solving.
Consideration
Attention to the interpersonal aspects of work, including respecting subordinates’ ideas and feelings, maintain harmonious work relationships, collaborating in teamwork, and showing concern for the subordinates’.
Contingency Theory of Leadership
Contends that the greater the favorability towards the leader, the more the subordinates can be relied on to carry out the tasks and the fewer challenges to leadership.
Controlling
Refers to the monitoring of performance and use of feedback to ensure that efforts are on target towards prescribed goals, making course corrections as necessary.
Critic
A role in organizational innovation in which an idea is challenged, compared to stringent criteria, and tested against reality.
Delegation
The process by which managers distribute work to others along with authority to make decisions and take action.
Democratic Leadership
Involves members in decision making.
Discipline
A field of study characterized by knowledge base and perspective that is different from other fields of study.
Early Adopter
About 13.5% of the organization, individuals in this group have a high degree of opinion leadership, and they are more localized than cosmopolitan and often look to the innovators for advice and information. These are leaders and respected role models of the organization and their adoption of an idea or practice does much to initiate change.
Early Majority
Comprises about 34% of the organization, not usually leaders, the individuals in this group represents the backbone of the organization, are deliberate in thinking and acceptance of an idea, and serve as a natural bridge between early and late adopters.
Emotional Intelligence (EI)
The sensitivity and ability to monitor and revise one’s behavior based on the needs and responses of others.
Ergonomics
A discipline of functional design associated with the employee in relationship to his or her work environment, including equipment, workstation, and office furniture adaptation to accommodate the employee’s unique physical requirements so as to facilitate efficiency of work functions.
Esprit de corps
A Fayol principle of management that emphasized the work climate in which harmony, cohesion, and high morale promoted good work.
Evidence-based management
Management that is information based.
Exchange relationship
Relationship in which a leader offers great opportunities and privileges to a subordinate in exchange for loyalty, commitment, and assistance.
Executive Dashboard
An information management system that provides decision makers with regularly updated information on an organization’s key strategic measurements.
Expectancy theory of Motivation
Proposes that one’s effort will result in the attainment of desired performance goals.
Gantt chart
A graphic tool used to plot tasks in project management that shows the duration of project tasks and overlapping tasks.
Goal
A specific description of the service or deliverable goods to be provided as a result of a business processes.
Great person theory
The belief that some people have natural (innate) leadership skills.
Groupthink
The tendency of a highly cohesive team to seek consensus, often at the detriment of sound decision making.
Hawthorne effect
Research study that found that novelty, attention, and interpersonal relations have a motivating effect on performance.
In-group
Subordinates who form a group around the leader
Initiating structure
Leaders who are more task-focused and centered on giving direction, setting goals and limits, and planning and scheduling activities.
Innovator
An early adopter of change who is eager to experiment with new ways of doing things