In your assignment, 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.
Word limit: around 150 words per activity.
1. Activity: 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?
2. Activity: 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:
Can you think of any examples where you experienced various culture types (Market, Clan, Adhocracy and Hierarchy culture) as a consumer to, or employee of, an organisation?
If so, what is your evaluation of the aligment between its corporate culture and strategy?
3. Activity: Structure and strategy
URL: BCG’s Yves Morieux view on OrganisationDesignx
Questions to consider:
Yves Morieux claims that structure follows strategy. Is this always the case?
4. Activity: 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:
To what extent would you be capable of inflicting real pain (physical, mental and/or emotional) on another human being?
5. Activity: Linear Programming Word Problem
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ACJ9ewUC6U
Questions to consider:
What insights into rational decision making approach can you draw from this video?
What would be the limitations of linear programming?
In what kinds of situation could the linear programming be useful to decision making?
6. Activity: Management by Objectives (Prof. Fredmund Malik)
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CX7m8J-rGDc
Questions to consider:
Do you agree with Prof Malik’s views on objectives and planning? Why or why not?
7. Activity: Product Life Cycle
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Edug_Z2mACc
Questions to consider:
Identify at least one product that fits into each stage of the Product Life Cycle.
8. Activity: Hawthorne Studies
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7RHjwmVGhs&list=PLOyGniZzYVh-qFD_vAJq96YlLdnp_pznP
Questions to consider:
Explain in your own words the main findings of Hawthorne Studies.
Based on Hawthorne studies, explain how norms and status exert influence on an individual’s behaviour.
9. Activity: Hertzberg’s Theory of Motivation
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ub8R5c6tkE
Questions to consider:
1. Explain the key concepts of Hertzberg theory of motivation.
2. Explain how would use the finding of the Hertzberg theory of motivation to motivate your workers in a fast food industry?
10. Activity: Lead and be the change
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yv-QiSvuLLM
Questions to consider:
1. Have you experienced an emotional rollercoaster when faced with a radical change, as described by Professor Mueller-Eberstein in the video? Discuss how the Theory of Transition may be applied to your experience.
2. Can you relate Kotter’s 8-Step Change Model to Professor Mueller-Eberstein tips for successful change management?
11. Activity: Privacy Rights vs. Employee Tracking
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-mqdz-20Xs
Question to consider:
What is your view of this issue with protecting privacy rights of individual employees?
