Day three DQ's Flashcards
What are the four different ways that power can manifest in organization?
- Can exist in organizational members ability perceived by others (ex - Others take the standard off of other co workers that are doing the best job. )
- Power can exist in the interactions among organizational members.
- Power may be structural because it is built into the design of the organization. (example - Status attached to certain organizational functions)
- Sociopolitical power - such as racism, sexism and classism.
What are some common ways that employees and management can be politically divided?
- Employees experiencing abuse from their superiors can resist by taking days off, or focusing energy away from work
- Supervisors are charged with the organizational responsibility of evaluating employees and their performance.
What is “concertive control”? How does it operate?
Occurs when employees adopt management interpretation of values and objectives in support of the organizations mission
What are some common ways that power can shape the significance of race and gender differences in an OC?
- Many organizations have programs.
- The absence or presence of such policies and programs is an artifact of the values and assumptions of the country.
How do the metaphors of “jigsaw puzzle” and “landscape” help us to understand the process of doing OC analysis?
The pieces fit together one by one until a complete picture.
You keep working at it until the pieces work together correctly.
What are 3 risks likely to be considered by organizations when responding to your proposal to study them?
- The analysis of the culture may be incorrect or incomplete.
- Organizational Members may not be ready to receive your analytical findings even though they agreed to support your investigation.
- Providing feedback about an organizations culture is tricky when your findings are delivered to a group of organizational members.
