Chapter 8 Vocabulary Flashcards
A system of shared beliefs and values guiding behavior
Organizational culture
Clear, well defined, and widely shared among organization members
Strong cultures
The process through which new members learn the culture of a team or organization
Socialization
What you see and hear when walking around an organization
Observable culture
Found in the underlying values of the organization
Core culture
Beliefs and values shared by organization members
Core values
Actively develops, communicates, and enacts shared values
Value-based management
Involves practices that create meaning and shared community among organizational members
Workplace spirituality
The process of developing new ideas and putting them into practice
Innovation
Result in better ways of doing things
Process innovations
Result in new or improved goods or services
Product innovations
Result in ways for firms to make money
Business model innovations
Reduces the carbon footprint of an organization or its products
Green innovation
Sustainable innovation
Business innovation driven by a social conscience
Social innovation
Pursue innovative ways to solve pressing social problems
Social entrepreneurs
The process of turning new ideas into applications that generate profits
Commercializing innovation
Recognizes the potential for valuable innovations to be launched from lower organizational levels and diverse locations, including emerging markets
Reverse innovation
Creates products or services that become so widely used that they largely replace prior practices and competitors
Disruptive innovation
Are special creative units set free from the normal structure for the purpose of innovation
Skunkworks
Tries to change the behavior of another person or social system
Change leader
Results in a major and comprehensive redirection of the organization
Transformational change
Bends and adjusts existing ways to improve performance
Incremental change
The phase during which a situation is prepared for change
Unfreezing
The phase where a planned change actually takes place
Changing
The phase at which change is stabilized
Refreezing
Makes continual adjustments as changes are being implemented
Improvisational change
Strategy pursues change through formal authority and/or the use of rewards or punishments
Force-coercion
Pursues change through empirical data and rational argument
Rational persuasion strategy
Pursues change by participation in assessing change needs, values, and goals
Shared power strategy
