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Chris Jarvis 1
HRM: Organisation Culture and Intervention
Questions
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HRM: Organisation Culture and Intervention
Questions
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HRM: Organisation Culture and Intervention
Whose norms?
Shared or based on dominant power source
and/or ideology?
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Is"success"
management style & corporate culture a key
factor influencing
survival?
modes of membership and commitment?
communication and leadership behaviour?
problem-analysis and decision-making
for the entire system?
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HRM: Organisation Culture and Intervention
Mutual adjustment
Direct supervision
Standardisation of
Systems and procedures
Skills
Results
Acceptance of legitimate authority (power) is
assumed. Neo-Weberian bureaucracy.
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Observations
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HRM: Organisation Culture and Intervention
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HRM: Organisation Culture and Intervention
Organisational politics
Conflicts of interests
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HRM: Organisation Culture and Intervention
OD - dominant paradigm of OD
Normative
Learning, adaptation, empiricist, rationalist
not
Power-coercive (de-personalise power & politics)
Beer (1980)
Intuitive, soft, influential
behavioural expert.
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Techniques of:
• Hard & soft systems analysis
• meta-system analysis
• re-engineer key business processes (e.g. BPR)
• Planning processes (power plays)
• Historical ‘evolutionary’ models (Quinn & strategy)
• Pro-active structuring (Mintzberg)
• Hybrid organisations - mechanistic with organismic
• Virtualisation
• Changing units of currency (knowledge)
• Analysis of networking
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Exercise
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HRM: Organisation Culture and Intervention
evangelise
strategic apex
centralise
operating core
standardise professionalise
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HRM: Organisation Culture and Intervention
BPR Manifesto
Definition
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HRM: Organisation Culture and Intervention
Backgrounds
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HRM: Organisation Culture and Intervention
Business processes
Disruptive
Old rule technology New rule
Managers make Decision support Decision making is
all decisions tools ??? part of everyone’s job
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