Change, change, change… the speed within trade and industry has increased immensely over time and new products are introduced regularly. This demands an increased capability to manage changes within a company. When performing an organizational change, it is important to be aware of the culture within the company. The organization at Saab Aerosystems has a [...]
Entrepreneurs’ Emotional Responses to a Bankruptcy
Entrepreneurs are often perceived to be creative and risk taking (Kreuger, 2002). The purpose of this paper is to investigate entrepreneurs’ response to a failure namely a bankruptcy. People react differently to a bankruptcy and tend to blame different things as the cause. Some blame themselves while others blame things out of their control. These [...]
EFFECTS OF THE EXTERNAL CONSEQUENCES OF ORGANIZATIONAL ACTIVITIES ON EMPLOYEE MOTIVATION
The purposes of our thesis include the following: • To know the activities carried out by organization(s) • To know the external consequences of these activities • To know how these consequences affect employee motivation • Identify certain external factors that actually measures employee motivation METHODS: Our thesis involves looking into 3 different but inter-related [...]
Emerging Role of Teams in Multicultural Organizations
Role of multicultural teams (MCT) in multinational companies has significance in the presentday globalized world. The utility of the multicultural teams is acknowledged not only by senior managers and executives but also by the employees. However certain associated dysfunctional conflicts hinder the performance of MCT’s. Contents INTRODUCTION 1.1 RESEARCH BACKGROUND 1.1.1 Merits & Demerits of Multicultural Teams 1.2 PROBLEM DISCUSSION 1.2.1 Research Question 1.2.2 Research Sub‐Questions 1.3 AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1.4 THESIS REPORT STRUCTURE [...]
Employees Resistance Towards Organizational Change
While starting our thesis, we studied lot of literature on organizational change, and found that the concept of change and its types have been discussed by different authors in a manner that is very difficult to understand. Every author/researcher discusses his/her own concept regarding organizational change and have differentiated it as per their own study [...]
Mindful Use as a Link Between Social Capital and Organizational Learning: An Empirical Test of the Antecedents and Consequences of Two New Constructs
The motivation for this research is that information systems are not often used to their full potential – individuals often fail to use valuable features of systems not allowing firms to maximize their return from investments in these technologies. Additionally, there have been recent calls for new conceptualizations of system use and for research that [...]
TMT Diversity, CEO Procedural Fairness, and TMT Conflict
The purpose of this dissertation was to address three research questions: (1) What are the antecedent conditions that contribute to the development of conflict within TMTs? (2) how can TMTs develop constructive conflict profiles – those that simultaneously have relatively high levels of cognitive conflict but low levels of or little affective conflict? and (3) [...]
Managerial Search and the Pursuit of Opportunity
This dissertation explores the search behavior of CEOs and how this behavior relates to the opportunities they recognize and take action upon. Opportunities are defined in this dissertation as the perception of a novel and appropriate resource combination acted upon or seized for potential gain. As such, recognizing and acting upon opportunities is among the [...]
Locked Up: Exploring the Complex Nature of Conflicting Values Systems and Their Effects on Work Attitudes
Values are individuals’ enduring perspectives on what is fundamentally right or wrong (Rokeach, 1973). These perspectives affect how people interpret their surroundings and interactions with others; individuals act in accordance with, and judge others’ behavior by, what they believe is right (Bandura, 1991). Values have been studied extensively in the organizational literature, focusing on how [...]