Chapter 8
Showing designated superiority in an office.
What is an organizational chart used for?
Initial Experimentation
What is the second step in commercializing innovation?
The difference between recruitment and selection.
What is encouraging people to apply for a job versus selecting someone for the job from a pool of qualified applicants?
Creating structures, dividing up the work, arranging resources, and coordinating activities.
What is organizing?
New and unique ways to make money.
What is business model innovation?
A difference between mechanistic and organic designs.
What is having a bureaucratic, centralized and vertical structure versus an adaptable, decentralized, horizontal structure?
The importance of a company having core culture.
What is showing the underlying values of an organization?
The process for a merit-pay system.
What is pay increase for job performance?
The process of dividing up tasks to others.
What is delegation?
Employment preference to women and minority groups.
What is Affirmative Action?
The advantage of network structures.
What is lower costs due to fewer full-time employees and better access to expertise through specialized alliance partners and contractor
The importance of Green Innovation.
What is reducing the carbon footprint and supporting the sustainability of a company?
The purpose of contingency workers.
What is a supplement to full time workforce by working as needed and part time while working on a long term basis?
Things go upwards within the function but there is little communication across the functions.
What are functional chimneys or silos?
The opportunity for employment regardless of race, gender, religion, color, and national origin.
What is Equal Employment Opportunity?
How delegation leads to empowerment.
What is giving people more opportunities to take control of their work, therefore giving them more freedom and meaning to their work leaving them to feel empowered?
This is how companies stablize change.
What is refreezing by creating acceptance for new behavior?
The third step of the selection process.
What is employment testing?
Use language and symbols to establish and reinforce organizational culture.
What is a symbolic leader?
Special creative units set free from the normal structure for innovation.
What is a skunk works?
Difference in decision making in a centralized organization compared to a decentralized organization.
What is centralized decision making having only top management make all the decisions and decentralized decision making having everyone make decisions?
The reason why people resist change.
What is having the fear of the unknown or loss of confidence?
The process of a collective bargaining system.
What is the process of negotiating, administering, interpreting a labor contract?
Deals with employers on workers’ behalf and provides a collective voice for their members for added power.
What is a labor union?
Bureaucratic, centralized and vertical structures that thrive in stabilized environments.
What is mechanistic design?