In your blog, you should address the following two sections:
(1) Section 1: list the key ideas you have extracted from the prescribed e-learning activity.
(2) Section 2: apply those ideas to your own experience, to an organisation you know and to the topic(s) of this subject.
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Activity 1: Ford and Taylorism
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PdmNbqtDdI
Questions to consider:
Activity 2: Fayolism as the Necessary Complement of Taylorism – Pearson, Norman M. (Feb., 1945) The American Political Science Review, Vol. 39, No. 1 , pp. 68-80
URL: http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/1948832?uid=3737536&uid=2&uid=4&sid=21103317946303
Questions to consider:
1. While some would argue that this paper, now 70 years beyond its publication date is ‘out of date’, could there still be value in the ideas expressed here in other parts of the world?
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Activity 1: Thomas Friedman on Globalisation; 3 Eras of Globalisation; World is flat URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lp4znWHvsjU
Questions to consider:
Activity 2: Pankaj Ghemawat on Globalisation
URL: http://www.ted.com/talks/pankaj_ghemawat_actually_the_world_isn_t_flat.html
Questions to consider:
Activity 3: Online tool to explore different countries’ 5 dimensions by Hofstede
URL: http://geert-hofstede.com/countries.html
Questions to consider:
Activity 4: ‘The myth of national culture’ – Counter argument to Hofstede’s work by Professor Brendan McSweeney at Royal Holloway, University of London
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_l84Dj2eXY
Questions to consider:
1. Do you agree with Professor McSweeney’s view on national cultures? Why or why not? After viewing the survey result done by Hofstede on your home country, who do you think offers a more compelling argument on national cultures? Can a single culture be used to determine the actions of entire population?
Activity 5: ‘Riding the waves of culture’ – Talk given by Fons Trompenaars at TEDxAmsterdam
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmyfjKjcbm0
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Activity 6: ‘Building a cross-cultural web design for a wider audience’ (Christian Arno in Design on 22nd Jun 2010)
URL: http://www.onextrapixel.com/2010/06/22/building-a-cross-cultural-web-design-for-a-wider-audience/
Questions to consider:
1. Can the concept of High and Low Context cultures be applied to other areas of business? – marketing and advertising, PR, customer and supplier relationship management etc.
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Activity 1: Corporate culture and strategy
URL: ‘Culture clash: When corporate culture fights strategy, it can cost you’ http://knowledge.wpcarey.asu.edu/article.cfm?aid=31
Questions to consider:
Activity 2: Definition of culture
URL: What is Organizational Culture? And Why Should We Care? http://blogs.hbr.org/2013/05/what-is-organizational-culture/
Questions to consider:
3. Why do you think people’s definition of culture may vary?
4. Which definition of culture do you agree with most and why?
Activity 3: Corporate culture instilled in HRM practices and customer satisfaction
URLs: (1) ‘Why Zappos Pays New Employees to Quit–And You Should Too’ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQLTQAv5JQA
(2) ‘Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh talks about building a culture-based company’ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdKZapHZL4c
Question to consider:
5. What does building a culture-based company entail?
Activity 4: Toyota’s corporate culture and the problem of spreading its culture
URL: ‘MIT’s Steven Spear Discusses Toyota’s Corporate Culture’ (Interview on Bloomberg TV) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCaKFPjfG7s
Question to consider:
6. How would you describe Toyota’s culture using the seven dimensions of organisational culture and/ or the Cultural Web?
Activity 5:Cultural web and its use in practice (call centre)
URL: ‘Using cultural models for changing corporate culture’ http://www.changefactory.com.au/articles/change-management/using-cultural-models-for-changing-corporate-culture/
Questions to consider:
7. Do you agree with the author’s view on the effectiveness of cultural web model in changing corporate culture (compared to other models of corporate culture) as presented in the article? Why or why not?
8. What would be the benefits of using typology type instead?
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Activity 1: Structure and strategy
URL: BCG’s Yves Morieux view on Organisation Designx http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm7d1dzOKmw
Questions to consider:
1. Yves Morieux claims that structure follows strategy. Is this always the case?
Activity 2: Holacracy
URL: Zappos just abolished bosses. Inside tech’s latest management craze. http://www.vox.com/2014/7/11/5876235/silicon-valleys-latest-management-craze-holacracy-explained
Questions to consider:
2. What’s your understanding of holacracy? How would you describe it compared to bureaucracy and team-based structure?
3. Discuss how Contingency Factors of Organisational Design are at work in the case of Zappos?
4. In what ways do you think innovative culture is related to (agile) organisational structure?
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Activity 1: The Milgram Experiment
URL: (1) Milgram Experiment – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcvSNg0HZwk
(2) Milgram Experiment replicated in Australia (Psychology study by La Trobe University in the 1970s) – http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2012/s3489852.htm
Questions to consider:
1. To what extent would you be capable of inflicting real pain (physical, mental and/or emotional) on another human being?
Activity 2: Solomon Asch and Group Conformity
URL:
Questions to consider:
2. Does your own personal decision-making always reflect an objective process?
3. Does the desire to be accepted as a part of a group leave one susceptible to conforming to the group’s norms?
4. Identify and discuss situational factors that can enable a group to exert pressure strong enough to change a member’s attitude and behaviour.
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Activity 1: Linear Programming Word Problem
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ACJ9ewUC6U
Questions to consider:
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Activity 1: Management by Objectives (Prof. Fredmund Malik)
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CX7m8J-rGDc
Questions to consider:
1. Do you agree with Prof Malik’s views on objectives and planning? Why or why not?
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