What question on the exam could you have answered better?
After looking at your notes and discussing the exam with friends, supplement one question from the exam with additional information (key points or example).
1. Restate the question to the best of your ability
2. Present your new information.
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Q: How can managers use motivation to increase productivity?
ReplyDeleteA: Motivation is the key means directly linked to the productivity of employees. Employees are generally motivated by two key components; social interaction and financial gain. A sharp manager adheres to whichever component the employee is affiliated with. If an employee has a craving for community involvement, a manager can set them up on the front desk or on the phone, speaking directly with consumers and other staff. The manager could even choose to achieve a personal level of familiarity with the employee in question, improving their relationship and their need for social contact. If, however, the employee seeks financial gain, the manager can come to some sort of deal with the employee to increase their payroll, provided they earn it. This increase in funds could prove to be enough of a guarantee to increase their productivity.
second question on the exam. what is organizational structure and organizational culture. how are they related? how do they affect the way a business operates.
ReplyDelete(something like that)
New Answer: organizational structure is the system of tasks, reporting, and authority relationships with which the organization does it's work.
it is the framework for the organization and it's activities. It helps aid in the dividing of tasks and helps coordinate employees efforts with the companys goals.
organizational culture is the why and how an organization does business. it greatly effects how businesses design their jobs, treat their employees, and how workers behave at work and see their employers. organizational culture greatly effects job satisfaction.
these go hand in hand and greatly effect the way a business runs because an organization needs framework and structure in order to operate to the best of it's ability. without structure, a company would be ineffective and ultimately fall short of it's overall goal. this would cause a lack in job satisfaction and a drop in worker performance throughout the company. if the company has no structure, work will be disorganized, frustrating, and not unified. Employees will not realize the importance of their jobs and will no longer understand why they do their jobs and what the companys intentions are. therefore, organizational structure and culture directly effect one another and the overall operation of the company.
Q: In class we discussed many types of strategic plans. Name a type of strategic plan and explain how an organization is using it in "real life"
ReplyDeleteA: One type of strategic plan is the S.W.O.T Analysis. And businesses use this analysis to figure out what is their company's strengths, weakness, opportunities and threats are. This allows the company to plan ahead and fix or make better their products or company as a whole. this is really helpful to them because they can try to use the opportunities that is given to them. Then a company can also try to change their threats into something beneficial to the company.
name one of the strategic plans and how businesses use it (something like that)
ReplyDeleteProduct development strategy: inventing new products or modifying existing ones.
A good example for this is Apple. We have talked alot about apple in our class and it is the best example. Apple is constantly innovating all of their products. There are different macbooks, iphones, and ipods. The ipad has not needed to be innovated yet but im sure they will be coming out with one soon. Since starting out with the ipod shuffle they are now on the newest ipod nano and ipod touch. They have brought in touch screen trechnology so you are able to personalize your ipod to the way you want it.
That is a good example of a strategic strategy Apple is using for there products
2.define organizational structure and organizational culture, how are they related? how do they affect the business.
ReplyDeleteOrganizational structure
It is the sytem of tasks, reporting and authority relationship with which the organization does its works. It is the framework for all the organizations activities and it desccribes how the organization fits together. It aids by dividing and sub dividing of tasks. It also helps to coordinate employees effort with company goals.
Organizatoin Culture
Believe in rituals, myths, heroes and values that shapes the behaviour of their members.All these characteristics affect how businesses design their jobs, treat their employees and the image of their employers.
They overlap each other because they both exist in a workplace. Both of them are needed for the company's success. This helps them stay organised and their employees will be satisfied. They affect the overall performance of the company and if one of them is missing the company will be unorganised and will not structure.
I think it was the 9th question...something about managers increasing productivity through motivation.
ReplyDeleteThere are five components built into jobs that affect motivation and performance of workers. The first is skill variety. This concerns the variety of tasks required in the job that allows workers to draw on different skills they have. The second is task identity. This deals with how the worker connects their specific job to the organization as a whole. The third is task significance. This component is the degree to which the worker feels their job impacts the lives of others. The fourth is autonomy. This concerns the degree to which the job gives the worker freedom to determine how and when the work is done. Lastly there is feedback. Feedback is the amount of information the worker receives about their performance.
If a job satisfies these five components, the worker will find the job fulfilling. A fulfilled worker is a satisfied worker, and a satisfied worker is a productive worker. Managers should build these components into every job to motivate employees.
Q: How can managers use motivation to increase productivity?
ReplyDeleteAfter reading up on it a bit, i came across a few points that i wish i had made during the exam.
A: There are many different things that managers can do to increase productivity. Something as simple as recognition for mundane and simple tasks.And when they are recognized infront of coworkers, it is a nice ego stroke that will push the employee to continue to be as productive as possible. Also, employee empowerment is a good way to keep workers productive. If they feel like they have control, they will(most of the time) work harder.
Q: what is organizational structure and organizational culture. how are they related? how do they affect how an organization conducts its business?
ReplyDeleteA: An Organizational structure is a system of tasks, reporting and authority of relationships which the organization does its work. It gives the framework for all organizations activities and describes how it fits together. It also aids in dividing and subdividing tasks. Organizational culture is the why and how an organization does business. It greatly effects how businesses design their jobs, how they treat their employees, and how workers behave at work. Organizational culture greatly effects job satisfaction which benefits companies greatly. They are related to eachother because they both deal with how an organization should be ran. Organizational structures set a framework for companies giving employees something to follow and have a common goal. Without a structure set, employees wouldn't know what common goal, workers will be unorganized and won't work as a team. Overall this would cause employees to lack job satisfaction and result in less productivity. This is how they relate to eachother, they effect how a company is ran overall.
Q:what is organizational structure and organizational culture. how are they related? how do they affect how an organization conducts its business?
ReplyDeleteA:organizational structure is tasks, reporting and supervising, and authoritative relationships that the organization does work with. organizational structure consists of formalization, informal organization, and 'grapevine' communication. organizational culture are the rituals, myths, heroes, and values of the organization that shape the behavior of the organizations members. organizational culture affects how businesses design their jobs and tread their employees, and how workers behave at work and see their employer.
the concepts of of organizational structure build organizational.the framework of the organizational and rules of the organizational structure builds the atmosphere in which the employees work best in.
these concepts affects how an organization does business by creating job design through enhancing job characteristics
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The question about increasing productivity, the 9th one i believe.
ReplyDeleteJust a couple points i would like to add on.
Components built into jobs affect the motivation and performance of workers. Skill variety is the degree to which the job requires different activities so the worker can utilize a variety of skills. Task identity is the degree to which the job allows the worker to see their work as part of a bigger picture. Task significance is how much the worker feels his job is impacting other people. Autonomy is how much a worker feels that he is given freedom do decide how his work should be done. Lastly feedback is how often receives praise or criticism about their work. These five components affect the motivation and performance of workers. A manager that considers these components can increase the productivity of the employee.
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ReplyDeleteWhat is a type of strategic plan and how can a business benefit?
A type of strategic plan is Horizontal Integration. This is when the company expands by buying or merging with other corporations in that industry. ex. Tim Hortons and Wendy's . Both businesses benefit from this because they're both in the same building and can split the building costs and maintenance on the property. Also these stores sell different products so they would not be competing against each other. They can also share administrative costs.
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Q: What are organizational structure and culture and how do they relate to eachother and affect how business is run?
ReplyDeleteOrganizational Structure:
The definition of Organizational Structure is the system of tasks, reporting authority and relationships with which the organization does its work. Organizational Structure gives the framework for all the organization’s activities and describes how the organization fits together. It aids in the dividing and sub-dividing of tasks and helps to coordinate employee’s efforts with company goals. There are three main types of organizational structure: Centralization (where authority is tightly held at the top of the org), Decentralization (Authority is spread out through the lower level of the org) and Bureaucratic Organization (High degree of job speculation, departments by functions, formal delegation and “raised” or tall organization). A way to organize an organization is through an organizational chart. The chart size depends on the size of the business (small organizations have simple charts, larger organizations are more complex) and the higher you are on the chart, the more responsibility and compensation.
Organizational Culture:
The definition of organizational culture is what is valued within an organization; the leadership style, rituals, myths, heroes, the language and symbols in the organization and the procedures and routines. It is a gathering of values and norms that are shared by people and groups within the organization and that control the way they interact with each other and with stakeholders outside the organization. All of this shapes the behaviour of all the members of the organization.
How are they related? And how does organizational culture and structure affect how a business is run?
An organizational structure works within an organizational culture. The structure of the organization defines how the culture of the business is formed. Organizational structure shows us the frame work of the organization and organizational culture shows us the things that go on within that frame. For example the values and norms of the organization. Organizational structure and culture affect how business is run because both affect each other. Without structure within an organization there is nothing, businesses would not be able to function. Employees would become confused and slack off and all in all business would not be productive. Each organization needs leadership, values, goals and managers/bosses to report to.
Totally forgot everything about this on the last question . . .In class we discussed many types of strategic plans. Name a type of strategic plan and explain how an organization is using it in "real life"?
ReplyDeleteGrowth Strategies
- market development
- adds new consumer to current markets
- discovering new market to sell product to
- examples are Under Armour and Wii
- Under Armour decided to get rid of their running shoe line and focus on football cleats, as well as keeping their performance clothing line.
the question was like the second one... to define organizational structure and organizational culture, how they are related and how they affect the business
ReplyDeleteOrganizational structure
-the system of tasks, reporting and authority relationships with which the org. does it's work
-it gives a framework for all the organizations activities
-describes how the org. fits together
-aids in the dividing of tasks
-helps coordinate employees efforts with company goals
(goals: objectives set by management that the org. seeks to acheive, gives everyone a purpose)
some types of org. structure include centralization: which the authority is tightly held at the top of the org.
decentralization: the authority is spread out through the lower level of the org.
Organizatoin Culture
-Believea in rituals, myths, heroes and values that shape pretty much the behaviours of their members/employees, etc
-All of these characteristics affect how businesses design their jobs, treat their employees and the images on their employees
-They overlap each other because they both exist in a workplace. Both of them are needed for the company's success.
by using both, it helps a company stay organized and efficient. their employees will become more satisfied. They affect the overall performance of the company and without structure or without culture, the company will become very unorganized and unsuccessful.
Q: Name a strategic plan and how a business is using it in real life.
ReplyDeleteA: The product development strategy signifies an organization's decision to innovate a star product as a means of remaining relevant in their market. A company that is currently putting this strategy into action is Nintendo. The success of Nintendo's star product, the DSi, has been threatened by competitors like Apple and Microsoft. In response to the competition, Nintendo has come up with the 3DS, a mobile gaming device that provides three-dimensional graphics without the usage of special glasses.
Thanks everyone who added to this discussion! Great additional information.
ReplyDeleteDobson, your answer was exactly why I gave everyone this opportunity! Everyone all has been in situations where they wish they could add or subtract something they said.