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Activity 1:Ford and Taylorism
URL:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PdmNbqtDdI
Questions
to consider:
1.Would workers in Australia, America or Europe accept the Taylorism
in this form today?
2. Consider the design of scripts for use in Call Centres, can you see
Taylorism in that? Explain.
3.This ‘clip’ is showing history from 100
years ago. Some would say that ‘the world has moved on’ and these ideas
are out of date. However, could there be parts of the world today for
which these ideas might be just what they need? Explain.
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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publication date is ‘out of date’, could there still be value in the ideas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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Discussion Board – Week 2
In your blog, you should by GoPhoto.it V9.0″>ADDRESS
the following two sections:
(1) Section 1: list the key
ideas you have extracted from the prescribed e-learning by GoPhoto.it V9.0″>ACTIVITY.
(2) Section 2: by GoPhoto.it V9.0″>APPLYthose ideas to your own experience, to an
organisation you know and to the topic(s) of this subject.
by GoPhoto.it V9.0″>VISITthe following URLs, and use ‘Questions to consider’
to guide your thinking.
Activity 1:Thomas Friedman on
Globalisation; 3 Eras of Globalisation; World is flat
URL:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lp4znWHvsjU
Questions to consider:
1. What
would be some of the key drawbacks or risks of living in the flat world of Globalisation
3.0 as Friedman describes it?
2. Do
you agree with Friedman’s iron rule of the flat world? Explain.
3.
Is the level of globalisation uniform across the world? Explain.
Activity 2:PankajGhemawat on
Globalisation
URL:http://www.ted.com/talks/pankaj_ghemawat_actually_the_world_isn_t_flat.html
Questions to consider:
1. Has
your view on globalisation changed after listening to Professor Ghemawat?
Explain.
2. Consider where you have seen the fears
that people have about globalisation. Do you think these fears may subside with
some data points that may suggest otherwise?
Activity 3:Online tool to explore
different countries’ 5 dimensions by Hofstede
URL:http://geert-hofstede.com/countries.html
Questions to consider:
1.How
does the Australian culture compare to other world cultures (eg. Your home
country or other countries that you have visited)?
2.Do you agree with the survey results for
the Australian culture? Why or why not?
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 FonsTrompenaars
at TEDxAmsterdam
URL:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmyfjKjcbm0
Questions to consider:
1.Consider
your experience with cultural conflict or culture shock. What were the
different viewpoints that you had to reconcile? And how did you overcome the
differences?
2.What would be the benefits of connecting
different viewpoints as Trompenaar suggests?
Activity 6:‘Building a
cross-cultural web design for a wider audience’(Christian Arno inDesign 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 ofHigh 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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HI6005
Discussion Board – Week 3
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.
Visit
the following URLs, and use ‘Questions to consider’ to guide your thinking.
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:
1. Can you think of any examples where you
experiencedvarious culture types (Market, Clan,
Adhocracy and Hierarchy culture) as a consumer to, or employee of, an organisation?
2. If so, what is your evaluation of the aligment between
its corporate culture and strategy?
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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HI6005
Discussion Board – Week 4
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.
Visit
the following URLs, and use ‘Questions to consider’ to guide your thinking.
Activity 1: Structure and strategy
URL:BCG’s
Yves Morieux view on Organisation Designxhttp://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:
1. What’s your
understanding of holacracy? How would you describe it compared to bureaucracy
and team-based structure?
2. Discuss howContingency
Factors of Organisational Design are at work in the case of Zappos?
3. In what ways do you think innovative culture
is related to (agile) organisational structure?
