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Understanding Organizations

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Understanding organizations


Part I: The summary of the course “Understanding organisation“


(the answer of question n° 2)


     Understanding organizations is a very important issue to cover and to study, especially for managers; and as Richard Hagberg said:


“Understanding organizations can mean the difference between success and failure in today’s fast changing business environment  “, because there is some pillars in every organization which are determinant of  the success of the later , such as :


“how people are organized “,”how do they coordinate efforts “,” how the division of task is done “,”how the authority is exercised”,”what is the people’s culture”,”how the decision is made”.. Not to mention others .So all these issues are to be understood and well managed.


      The course we attended in understanding organizations provided many videos, questionnaires and games, which underlined some crucial concepts in understanding organizations, for instance:


“Organizational culture”, “management and leadership”, “team roles”, “conflicts”...Etc.





  1 – Organizational culture :





       In simple terms, organizational culture is “the way things work around here “. Culture can perhaps best be understood as overlapping webs or patterns of widely shared and deeply felt values and assumptions that are shared across an organization, which drive behaviours and performance levels.


     Edgard Schein said “understanding the culture to understand the organisation “,


According to his approach culture can be viewed at several levels, some aspects of culture are visible and tangible , and others are intangible and unconscious , basic assumptions that guide the organisation are deeply rooted and often taken for granted ,avoidance of conflict is a value that is an excellent example of an unconscious  norm that may have a major influence on the organisation  but is frequently unconscious .Espoused or secondary values ar...

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