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Discuss the impact of the 7 s frame –work on organization and behaviour.

1. Strategy – the route that the organization has chosen for its future growth; a plan an
organization formulates to gain a →sustainable competitive advantage 
2. Structure – the framework in which the activities of the organization's members are
coordinated. The four basic structural forms are the functional form, divisional
structure, matrix structure, and network structure.
3. Systems – the formal and informal procedures, including innovation, compensation
systems, management information systems, and capital allocation systems, that govern
everyday activity... More
4. Style – the leadership approach of → top management and the organization's overall
operating approach; also the way in which the organization's employees present
themselves to the outside world, to suppliers and → customers  .
5. Skills – what the company does best;
the distinctive →capabilities and → competencies that reside in the organization.
6. Staff – the organization's human resources; refers to how people are developed,
trained, socialized, integrated, → motivated, and how their carriers are managed.  >>>
7. Shared values – originally called superordinate goals; the →guiding principles and
concepts of the organization – → values and aspirations, often unwritten – that go
beyond the conventional statements of corporate objectives; the fundamental ideas
around which a business is built; the things that influence a group to work together for
a common aim

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