planning stage of external recruiting

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List and briefly describe each of the administrative issues that need to be addressed in the planning stage of external recruiting.

statistical population

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No matter how few elements are included in a statistical population, however, a sample taken from that population (can/cannot) be larger than the population itself.

Discrimination and harassment laws

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Discrimination and harassment still occur in companies today in spite of many employment laws. If you were a business owner, what would you do to create an organization free from discrimination and harassment?

Finance Manager

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Next, for the Job Position Finance Manager –Performance Chart/Outline- with the following items presented:

  • Routine tasks: tasks that you would expect the person in this position to perform on a regular basis.
  • Adaptive tasks: ways you would expect the person in this position to perform tasks when situations/circumstances change. The changes might be considered contingencies.
  • Creative tasks: ways you would expect the person in this position to perform tasks when routine and adaptive methods are not sufficient or will not work.

Organizational development approach to change

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1.     ‘The Organizational Development approach to change continues to dominate the literature because the value of this approach has been proven in practice.’ Discuss this statement.

2.    In drawing on examples you are familiar with, evaluate the claim by Dunphy and Stace that there are occasions where more coercive and autocratic strategies for managing change are required.

3.    Compare and contrast Lewin’s three-step and Kotter’s eight-step model, and discuss the claim by Hendry (1996: 624) that if you: ‘Scratch any account of creating and managing change and the idea that change is a three-stage process that necessarily begins with a process of unfreezing will not be far below the surface.’ (If unsure then don’t worry about this one)

change management theories

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change management theories

  1. How useful is the image of managing change framework for locating and making sense of change management theories?
  2. Identify and explain a set of guiding principles for the strategic management of change and innovation.
  3. Why do businesses in highly competitive markets often feel under pressure to mimic the behaviour of ‘successful’ competitors?
  4. Discuss what you understand by the term ‘change paradox’.

managing cultural changeb in an organization

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Explain and evaluate the concepts of sense-making and sense giving.

Is organizational culture something an organization is or has?

First, imagine an organization with a dysfunctional culture (behaviors and practices not acceptable and ethically dubious), then develop a strategy for managing cultural change in this organization.

 

cultures of unions

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Why do you think the cultures of unions have been ignored in
organizational culture literature?