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Five Basic Negotiating Strategies - Key Concepts in Negotiation
What is your strategy when you go into a negotiation? There are five basic negotiating strategies. In this video, I'll describe them, based on the work of Kenneth Thomas and Ralph Kilmann.
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What is an Organization? - the Nature of Organizations
This is the first video of our course on the nature of organizations, so we answer the question: 'What is an Organization?'
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Organizations as Structures: Understanding an Organization as a Structure
One way to understand the nature of an organization is as a structure (the other is as a process). In this video, we look at Organizations as Structures.
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What is Charles Handy's Federal Organization Model?
Charles Handy's Federal Organization model is highly centralized – but highly decentralizing. What on Earth can we make of this apparent contradiction?
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What is Charles Handy's Triple-I Company?
The Triple-I company is the primary home of 21st century knowledge workers. So, what is it?
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Organizational Power: What is Power?
Ralph Waldo Emerson said that: ‘life is a search after power’. If that is true, what is it we are searching for? We need to start our exploration of power in organizations by understanding what is power?
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Robin Fincham: Three Levels of Organizational Power
Etzioni talked about the types of Power that organizations wield. But where does it come from? Robin Fincham, a British academic, has given us a helpful analysis of three levels from which organizational power emanates.
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Power in Organizations: The Power of Governance
In this video, we will look at the power organizations derive from their governance structures and processes.
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How to Support Your Team for Learning: 7 Things
A big part of how I see my responsibilities as a team leader is in developing the skills, talents, and knowledge of the people under my care. I need to support them for learning.
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Introduction to Organizational Culture
Organizational Culture sits in the background of an organization: Collective patterns of behavior: its habits and rituals. It’s like the organization’s personality.
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What is the Cultural Web? Johnson & Scholes on Where Culture Originates
The Cultural Web of an organization is a model developed by Gerry Johnson and Kevan Scholes.
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Quinn and Cameron: Competing Values Model of Organizational Culture
Robert Quinn and Kim Cameron created a model of four organizational cultures. The Quinn and Cameron model is known as a “competing values framework” because it starts from two pairs of competing values.
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Max Weber: The Father of Organizational Theory
Max Weber was a professor of political economy at the University of Freiberg. But he is known as the ‘Father of Organizational Theory’.
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Chester Barnard: Organizations as Networks of People
Chester Barnard was a Harvard economist and follower of Max Weber. And he was one of the few major management thinkers who actually held a senior line management position! He spent all of his working life at American Telephone and...
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Charles Handy: Philosopher of Organizations
Charles Handy has been the source of a stream of ideas about organizations. We have four other videos about Handy's individual ideas. This one draws them together.
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What is Brand Management? The Role of a Brand Manager.
Brand management is the creation and execution of plans to strengthen consumers’ brand perception of a brand.
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What is Feedback? And Why Does it Matter?
It feels like everyone knows how important Feedback is at work. But do we really understand it? In this short video, I'll kick off our course on feedback by giving a very clear answer to the questions: 'what is feedback?' and 'why does...
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When and Where to Give Feedback
Feedback is a vitally important management or supervisory activity. But the question is, when and where to give feedback? I'll split my answer into two cases...
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How to Plan Your Feedback: 10 Question Process
If you want your feedback to go well, then plan it. Here are ten questions to plan your feedback.
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What is John Stacy Adams' Equity Theory? Process of Model of Motivation
John Stacy Adams built a simple yet exceptionally powerful motivation model around a simple fact: human beings are motivated by fairness. He called this model Equity Theory, and that's what I'll take you through in this video.
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Organization: How to Enhance Your Productivity by Being Organized
Being organized is one of the keys to great productivity. You may think organization is dull, but it saves you wasting time finding what you need. So, it's a great investment. Effective working means rapid access to resources, tools, and...
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Henry Mintzberg's 4 plus 2 Organizational Types
In his 1979 book, The Structuring of Organizations, Henry Mintzberg classified organizational structures into four organizational types, depending on the complexity of the organization’s operations, and the pace of change it needs to...
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French and Raven: Social Power Bases in Organizations
French and Raven described the sources of power that people have as ‘social power bases’.
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Kim Cameron: Positive Organizational Scholarship
Positive Psychology is an important component of modern workplace thinking. And Kim Cameron has been at the forefront of making it into a powerful force in organizational thinking, referring to it in this context as ‘Positive...