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Leading

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Organizing

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Theory Y

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Theory X

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Controlling

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Planning

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Competition

urban_eyes_2009 — Fri, 3 Jul 2009 19:59:25 MDT

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Competition is the effort of two or more parties acting independently to secure the business of a third party by offering the most favorable terms. (mirriam-webster dictionary. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/competition) This is a good photo of competition because it shows seven different companies in the same industry competing for the same customers. You can go even more in depth and say that Great Steak and Potato Company is competing with Subway for customers who want a sandwich.

Organizational Culture

urban_eyes_2009 — Fri, 3 Jul 2009 19:16:53 MDT

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Organizational culture is the shared set of beliefs, expectations, values, norms, and work routines that influence the ways in which individuals, groups, and teams interact with one another and cooperate to achieve organizational goals. The Chicago Community Bank values the environment which influences their interactions with their customers. In this advertisement, you can see that Chicago Community Bank offers a reusable grocery bag to customers.

Organizational Mission

urban_eyes_2009 — Fri, 3 Jul 2009 18:48:35 MDT

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An organizational mission is the organization’s purpose identifying the organization’s products and customers and distinguishing the organization from its competitors. This photograph is of a pillar on the floor that TWG occupies. Along the pillar are many slogans that identify TWG's purpose and distinguish them from other competitors (i.e. "Beyond Bigger. Best.").

Diversity

urban_eyes_2009 — Fri, 3 Jul 2009 16:05:57 MDT

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Diversity is defined as the differences among people in age, gender, race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and capabilities/disabilities. In the above photograph are two employees of TWG. They represent gender diversity, for one is a man and one is a woman.

Business Level Strategy: Differentiation

urban_eyes_2009 — Thu, 2 Jul 2009 12:24:37 MDT

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The differentiation strategy distinguishes an organization's products from the products of its competitors on dimensions such as product design, quality, or after-sales service. This picture represents differentiation because the parking company is stating that they offer a service or quality that makes their garage better than their competitors. Their parking is indoors and is also heated, which differentiates them from other parking garages.

Middle Managers

urban_eyes_2009 — Wed, 1 Jul 2009 21:23:46 MDT

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Middle managers supervise first-line managers and are responsible for finding the best way to use resources to achieve organizational goals. Photo of The Warranty Group's middle managers.

Technical Skills

urban_eyes_2009 — Wed, 1 Jul 2009 21:11:42 MDT

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Technical skills are job-specific skills required to perform a particular type of work or occupation at a high level. This woman in the picture is a secretary, in which she must have technical skills that include using computer programs and quick typing. When this picture was taken, she was typing something at a very quick pace.

Scientific Management

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Scientific Management is the systematic study of relationships between people and tasks for the purpose of redesigning the work process to increase efficiency. In this photograph, Aziz is timing an assistant as she performs a task. He is studying the relationship between this assistant and a particular task, in hopes of restructuring the work process in a way that would increase efficiency.

Strategy Formulation

urban_eyes_2009 — Wed, 1 Jul 2009 21:10:59 MDT

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Strategy formulation is the development of a set of corporate-, business-, and functional strategies that allow an organization to accomplish its mission and achieve its goals. Here is a picture of a large dry-erase board with an outline of many different ideas to develop the three levels of strategies for the organization.

Experienced Meaningfulness

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Experienced meaningfulness is the feeling that workers get from their job's skill variety, task variety, and task significance. Workers with high experienced meaningfulness will result in high motivation according to J.R. Hackman and G.R. Oldham's Job Characteristic Model. This picture represents experienced meaningfulness because the worker (sitting) feels as though her skill variety, task identity, and task significance are not that important to the organization. She is being encouraged that her job is very important to the organization.

Top Manager

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A top manager establishes organizational goals, decides how departments should interact, and monitors the performance of middle managers. Top Manager at The Warranty Group.

Human Skills

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Human skills include the ability to understand, alter, lead, and control the behavior of other individuals and groups. In this picture, the man on the left is using his human skills to understand what the man on the right is doing by listening to his ideas. After, he will lead him to the best ideas he proposed.

Economies of Scale

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Economies of scale are the cost advantages associated with large operations. Dollar Daze is an organization that offers over 25,000 products at comparably low prices. Due to their large operations, they are able to purchase their goods at a very low price, and then sell their products at an extremely low price compared to their competitors.

Efficiency

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Efficiency is a measure of how well or how productively resources are used to achieve a goal. The store that provides passport photos is able to utilize its technological resources to deliver a finished product in a set time frame.

First-line Manager

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Walgreens' store manager, Ms. Francine Hudson, is a first-line manager. First-line managers are responsible for the daily supervision of non-managerial employees.

Organization Environment Theory

urban_eyes_2009 — Wed, 1 Jul 2009 21:08:38 MDT

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Changes in the global environment affect organizations. The quality of managers' understanding of forces in the global environment and their ability to respond appropriately to those forces are critical factors affecting organizational performance. In 2006, the CTA introduced 265 Clean Air Hybrid Buses to the CTA fleet in response to increasing environmental awareness. The buses that produce 60% fewer emissions will provide increased environmental benefits with the goal of improved public health, saving money on energy costs, beautifying the city, and enhancing the quality of life--all in the hopes of attracting new residents and employers.

Porter's Five Forces: Level of Rivalry

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Porter's Five Forces is a well-know model that helps managers focus on the five most important competitive forces, or potential threats, in the external environment. One of the five factors is the level or rivalry among organizations in an industry. Dunkin Donuts has proved to be large competitor for Starbucks, offering drinks for a lower price. In response to their competitor, Starbucks has increased advertisement which can lower the level of industry profit.

Team-based Structure

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Team-based structure is characterized by a group whose members work intensely with each other to achieve a specific common goal or objective. As a group, we established expectations for each group member as well as a common purpose and goal. We employ a team based-structure by working together intensely together to achieve a common pre-established goal.

Tall Structure

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Tall structure is an organizational hierarchy that has many levels. Our picture represents the physical aspect of a tall structure because each person is on a separate level in our organization. It illustrates how tall structures tend to be less flexible because communication must go from the top level to the bottom, which takes time.

Flat Structure

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Flat structure is an organizational hierarchy that has very few levels compared to a tall structure, despite having the same amount of functions or divisions. This picture represents a flat structure because there is only one level in the organization despite having six different people in it. By only having one level, communication and decision making will be much faster compared to a tall structure.

Structural Integration Mechanism

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Structural integration mechanisms are organizing tools that managers can use to increase communication and coordination among functions and divisions. This is the typical "Chinese telephone" that you may remember from your childhood. By communicating the exact message you receive to each other team member, you will all have the same knowledge and be able to coordinate among different divisions. Hopefully the message remains the same as it travels down the line!

Effectiveness

urban_eyes_2009 — Wed, 1 Jul 2009 21:07:23 MDT

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Effectiveness is a measure of the appropriateness of the goals an organization is pursuing and of the degree to which the organization achieves those goals. Educational institutions have a common goal of educating and preparing students for future careers by setting standards and requirements for each degree program that students must successfully complete. DePaul University graduates are the "finished product," a result of the goals being achieved.

A force from the general environment

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The general environment is the wide-ranging global, economic, technological, sociocultural, demographic, political, and legal forces that affect an organization and its task environment. These forces tend to be more difficult to identify and respond to. Technology has been changing and improving more rapidly over time and this picture shows the high-level of technology companies have currently, but they may possibly be outdated in a few years.

Brand Loyalty

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Brand loyalty is the customers’ preference for the products of the organizations currently existing in the task environment. On this side of this bus is a huge advertisement for Pepsi. Pepsi and their main competitor Coke have customers with a very strong brand loyalty for these drinks with extreme dislike for the other.

Global/multinational Organization

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A global/multinational organization is an organization that operates and competes in more than one country. This is the logo for TWG, a company that operates in North America, Latin America, Europe, and Asia Pacific. The many globes represent their presence internationally.

Hierarchy of Authority

urban_eyes_2009 — Wed, 1 Jul 2009 20:17:13 MDT

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July 01, 2009 2:40 PM Hierarchy of authority refers to an organization’s chain of command, specifying the relative authority of each manager. This photograph shows an "Evacuation Team Roster," which signifies the organization's chain of command while specifying the relative authority in the event of an emergency.

Threat of Substitutes

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July 01, 2009, 3:08 PM "Threat of Substitute Products" is one of Porter's Five Forces. What are the chances that a different product could take the place of one of our own products? When there is a substitute product, companies cannot charge a high price because customers will then buy the substitute product. This picture shows the threat of a substitute product between two different MP3 players. The reasons for buying one of the players may be that the price of one is much cheaper than the other, but yet still have the same capabilities as an MP3 player.

Autonomy

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July 01, 2009, 3:17 PM Autonomy is the degree to which a job gives an employee the freedom and discretion needed to schedule different tasks and decide how to carry them out. Our picture represents autonomy because the police officers are for the most part determining where and to what extent they patrol on their bikes. They decide which way is faster and also where they patrol first and last. In this case, they have a high degree of autonomy in their job.

Organizational Goal

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July 01, 2009, 3:29 PM An organizational goal includes established performance standards for the divisions and functions that support the organization’s overall goals. These are the six organizational goals that DePaul University strives to achieve.

Strategy Implementation

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July 01, 2009, 3:34 PM Strategy implementation is a method by which strategies are operationalized or executed within the organization; it focuses on the processes through which strategies are achieved. TFC bank has a strategy that aims their banking services at DePaul University students. To this they implemented strategies by placing an easily accessible ATM at the DePaul Center.

A Force from the Task Environment: Distributor

urban_eyes_2009 — Wed, 1 Jul 2009 16:16:47 MDT

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The task environment is the set of forces and conditions that originate with global suppliers, distributors, customers, and competitors; these forces and conditions affect an organization’s ability to obtain inputs and dispose of its outputs. These forces are the most immediate and direct. This picture contains a UPS truck, which would be a distributor. UPS helps organizations sell their goods and services by delivering them all across the globe.

Organizational Ethics

urban_eyes_2009 — Wed, 1 Jul 2009 16:10:24 MDT

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An organization's code of ethics are formal standards and rules, based on beliefs about right or wrong, that managers can use to help themselves make appropriate decisions with regard to the interests of their stakeholders. An organization's code of ethics derives from societal, professional, and individual ethics of the organization's managers and employees. Starbucks has been purchasing Fair Trade Certified coffee since 2000 to ensure the well-being of farmers that supply the coffee. "The goal of Fair Trade certification is to empower small-scale farmers organized in cooperatives to invest in their farms and communities, protect the environment, and develop the business skills necessary to compete in the global marketplace." -Starbucks Shared Planet - Ethical Sourcing

Barriers to Entry

urban_eyes_2009 — Wed, 1 Jul 2009 15:13:58 MDT

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Barriers to entry are factors that make it difficult and costly for an organization to enter a particular task environment or industry. Given the current economic climate, there is considerable difficulty in receiving credit. As well, the rent in the city of Chicago can be very costly. These are factors that could potentially inhibit an organization from entering a particular task environment or industry.

Organic Structure

urban_eyes_2009 — Wed, 1 Jul 2009 15:13:44 MDT

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Organic structure is a decentralized structure that allows lower-level employees autonomy in decision-making and is low on functional specification and formalization. This photograph is of an informal health foods store that does not function with a rigid bureaucratic structure. Rather, they are a store that focuses on quality for their customers, and allows their employees autonomy in presenting their quality products.

Bureaucracy

urban_eyes_2009 — Wed, 1 Jul 2009 15:13:30 MDT

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A bureaucracy is an organization characterized by specialization of functions, adherence to fixed rules, and a hierarchy of authority. As discussed in class, the city of Chicago is a classic example of a bureaucracy.