Principles of Management: Text and Cases

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Organizational Culture

After going through this chapter, you will be able to understand:

• the concept of organizational culture and its influences on the function of an organization
• organizational culture and globalization
• mergers and their implication on corporate culture
• Hofstede's cultural orientation model
• cultural issues and ways to manage corporate cultural change
• organizational diagnostics
• organizational development
• organizational change

My Microsoft

On 18 May 2006, Microsoft Corporation (Microsoft), the US-based multinational computer technology corporation, announced a plan to significantly revamp some of its human resource management (HRM) practices. The plan named ‘my Microsoft’ was aimed at addressing employees’ concerns ...