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What are Morgan's 8 Organizational Metaphors? An Organization is Like a...
Sometimes the best way to understand something complicated and abstract is with a metaphor. Gareth Morgan suggested we can gain some good insights into the nature of organizations from 8 organizational metaphors.
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Organizations as Processes: Understanding an Organization as a Set of Processes
One way to understand the nature of an organization is as a process (the other is as a structure). In this video, we look at Organizations as Processes
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The Features of Organizations: What an Organization Needs
What does an organization need to have... The features of Organizations? Let's look at what organizations (almost) always need, if they are to work effectively.
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Teamwork: Protecting Your Team
Protecting your team is a part of your role as a leader. To create teamwork, you need to serve your team, so they can get on with working together, as a team. and defending them from the things that will get in their way is part of that...
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Why do we need Organizations? Structure vs Agility
Why do we need Organizations? The answer lies in the trade-off of Structure versus Agility.
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What are Edgar Schein's Two Organizational Cultures?
In this video, we look at two opposed cultures that Schein defined, to give us our first, and simplest, introduction to the many different organizational models available. Schein's two organizational cultures have either an authority...
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What are Charles Handy's Gods of Management?
In Charles Handy’s 1978 book, Gods of Management, he articulated four organizational cultures or models for how the organization works.
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What is Charles Handy's Shamrock Organization?
In his 1989 book, The Age of Unreason, Charles Handy looked forward to a new type of organization, the Shamrock Organization.
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What is the Matrix Organization Model?
Many large multi-national organizations eschew the simplicity of Charles Handy’s Federal Organization model. Instead, they favor the big, complex, and ugly approach that is the Matrix Model.
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What is the Adhocracy Organizational Model?
When did bureaucracy become a dirty word? Almost certainly when the idea of adhocracy emerged. The two are polar opposites: radically different ways to coordinate an organization. The one a set of rules and systems that overlay...
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What is The Agile Organization?
In a fast-moving competitive environment, where new technology can disrupt everything overnight, is Adhocracy nimble enough? Do we need an Agile Organization?
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What is Brian Robertson's Holacracy Organizational Model?
Holacracy is a form of Adhocracy, which we covered in an earlier video. But, whilst we are way past ‘peak adhocracy’, it seems that holacracy is thriving.
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What are Virtual Organizations?
Virtual Organizations... A term that has been widely used for many years now – but which is becoming even more prevalent following the impact of the 2020 Coronavirus pandemic, is Virtual Organization. But what exactly is a Virtual...
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What is the Team Leadership Continuum? [Tannenbaum & Schmidt]
Robert Tannenbaum and Warren H Schmidt set out a range of leadership behaviours. This model gives us a powerful team leadership continuum.
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Amitai Etzioni: How Organizations Secure Compliance
How do organizations elicit compliance from their members? Amitai Etzioni addressed this question, concluding that there are three types of organization, each wielding a different sort of power.
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Supporting Your Team through Team Stress: 4 Steps
Under pressure, teams get stressed. Team leaders need to be able to spot the signs of stress and support your team through stress.
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How to Support Your Team through Change - 6 Steps
Change can be stressful. But it also brings with it, its own distinctive challenges. With change an almost constant feature of many workplaces, your ability to support your team through change is now a core skill for a team leader.
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What is Empowerment? The Organization Giving up its Power
What happens when organizations give up their power to the people within them? The answer is 'empowerment'.
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William Ouchi: Theory Z Organizations and Motivation
One of our most popular videos is the one about Douglas McGregor’s Theory X and Theory Y. As a result, people have asked me about Theory Z. Theory Z, which was developed by William Ouchi, to describe the adoption of Japanese ideas of...
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Edgar Schein's 3 Levels of Organizational Culture
Edgar Schein, of the Sloan School of Management, was interested in understanding organizational culture. He analyzed organizations into three distinct levels of organizational culture: artifacts (the surface manifestations of culture),...
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National Culture within an Organization: Geert Hofstede's 6 Cultural Dimensions
In his book, Culture’s Consequences, Dutch cultural psychologist Geert Hofstede, brought the term Organizational Culture into common use. His original work at IBM identified 4 dimensions of national culture. Later, he extended this to 6...
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How we Work: Geert Hofstede's 6 Cross-Organization Cultural Dimensions
In the 1980s, the Dutch cultural psychologist Geert Hofstede returned to the study of culture, but focused on an analysis of organizational practices. The authors identified six cross-organizational dimensions that separate and define...
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Harold Geneen: Data-driven Charismatic Organization
Harold Geneen was a successful business leader that transformed an ailing business, ITT, into a Data-driven Charismatic Organization. Under his leadership, it grew and grew.
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Edgar Schein: The Master of Organizational Culture
Edgar Schein is a social psychologist who has introduced many ideas around organizations and organizational culture. His thinking is at the heart of the subject.