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Outsourced Workers
Employees hired from outside a company to perform specific tasks or services, often to reduce costs or improve efficiency.
Peripheral Workers
Workers hired through external companies to perform specific tasks, often in a less stable employment environment than core employees.
Professional Care
Refers to specialized services provided by trained experts, typically in health, education, or technical fields
Shamrock Organization
A model of organization structure characterized by a core group of essential employees, supplemented by flexible labor including freelancers and outsourced workers
Project-Based Organization
Intuitive Thinking (Management)
A cognitive process that relies on instincts and immediate perceptions rather than analytical and logical reasoning. Quick decision making based on gut feelings.
Scientific Thinking (Management)
Structured approach to decision making that emphasizes empirical evidence, data analysis, and logical reasoning to solve problems
Corporate Culture
Set of shared values, beliefs, and behaviors within an organization that influences how employees interact and work together
Culture Clash
The conflict that arises when different corporate cultures or values intersect, often leading to misunderstandings and challenges in integration
Culture Gap
The difference in values, beliefs, or practices between two or more organizational cultures that can lead misunderstandings or miscommunications
Gods of Management
Each mythological god represents different management approaches to influencing, changing, motivating, and rewarding teams
Person Culture
Exists where individuals believe themselves to be superior to the organization. Architect firms and some university departments = person culture (Dionysus)
Power Culture
Exists when a few individuals retain the essential power. Control comes from them and is established throughout the organization (Zeus)
Role Culture
Refers to organizations where employees have clearly defined roles/operate in a highly controlled/precise organizational structure (Apollo)
Task Culture
Refers to an organizational culture focused on specific problems. Power shifts from person to person (Athena). People like the idea of this culture.
Features of Power Culture
Few rules and procedures, people are judged by their results rather than their effort and decisions may not be long term based
Features of Person Culture
See themselves as separate from the organization, each specialist brings a particular expertise to the organization
Features of Task Culture
Often crossing the lines of matrix structure, net and its different strands used to describe this
Features of Role Culture
Tall hierarchical bureaucracies with a long chain of command, position and rule book play key roles in decision making