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An organization develops a business strategy by establishing a set of long-
term goals. The business strategy selected by management determines the
structure and/or restructuring that is most appropriate. Moreover,
management selects HR strategies to fit and support its business strategies and
organizational structure.
C. Work-Flow Analysis
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often reveals that some steps or jobs can be combined, simplified, or even
eliminated. In other cases, it results in the reorganization of work so that
teams rather than individual workers are the source of value creation.
CHALLENGE 2
Understand the group perspective of work.
A. Self-Managed Teams
Businesses use three other types of teams in addition to SMTs. Unlike SMTs,
problem-solving teams do not affect an organization's structure because they
exist for only a limited period. They are often used when organizations decide
to pursue a quality management effort by making improvements in the quality
of a product or service. Special-purpose teams consist of members who span
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BY
LEWIS R. FARNELL, D.Litt., M.A.
FELLOW OF EXETER COLLEGE, OXFORD
AUTHOR OF
“CULTS OF THE GREEK STATES,” “EVOLUTION OF RELIGION,”
“HIGHER ASPECTS OF GREEK RELIGION” (HIBBERT LECTURES)
CHAPTER II.
Statement of the Problem and the Evidence.
CHAPTER III.
Morphology of the Compared Religions.
CHAPTER IV.
Anthropomorphism and Theriomorphism in Anatolia and the
Mediterranean.
CHAPTER V.
Predominance of the Goddess.
CHAPTER VI.
The Deities as Nature-Powers.
CHAPTER VII.
The Deities as Social-Powers.
CHAPTER VIII.
Religion and Morality.
CHAPTER IX.
Purity a Divine Attribute.
CHAPTER X.
Concept of Divine Power and Ancient Cosmogonies.
CHAPTER XI.
The Religious Temperament of the Eastern and Western
Peoples.
The relation of the individual to the deity more intimate in
Mesopotamia than in Greece—The religious temper more
ecstatic, more prone to self-abasement, sentimentality, rapture
—Humility and the fear of God ethical virtues in Babylonia—The
child named after the god in both societies—In some Semitic
communities the deity takes a title from the worshipper—
Fanaticism in Mesopotamian religion, entire absence of it in the
Hellenic
CHAPTER XII.
Eschatologic Ideas of East and West.
CHAPTER XIII.
Comparison of the Ritual.
CHAPTER XIV.
Summary of Results.
INDEX OF NAMES AND SUBJECTS.
ENDNOTES.
GREECE AND BABYLON.
CHAPTER I.
Inaugural Lecture.