Organizational Design and Change
Like Hospitals everywhere, Mercy Hospital and Medical Center has had to deal with drastic changes in a business environment that has become increasingly competitive.
Organizational Design and Diversification: Fluor Corporation, The
To implement its diversification strategy, Fluor Daniel adopted a highly flexible, diversified network organizational design that aligned separate business units with a wide variety of engineering and construction market..
Organizational Re-Design: Mercy Hospital and Medical Center
To operate more efficiently in the increasingly competitive world of health care, Mercy Hospital and Medical Center instituted a massive organizational re-design called Care 2000. In Mercy's former design, the simplest t..
Organizational Structure
Organizing, as the word suggests, is the phase of management that defines the structure of an organization. It lays out a set of parts and coordinates efforts to achieve goals developed in the planning phase. In practice..
Organizational Structure Case Study: Patagonia
At Patagonia, which produces high quality, outdoor clothing, the organizational structure originally was based on a steep hierarchy, with up to eight levels between the individual working in production and the CEO. In ti..
Organizational Structure: Traditional vs. Non-Traditional
Although specific organizational designs vary from company to company, there has been a broad trend away from what might be called mechanistic organizational designs toward more organic ones. Mechanistic designs depend o..
Organizing
This clip explores another management function: organizing. This is the process by which the entrepreneur decides what work needs to be done and who is going to do it. Organizing becomes especially important as the firm ..
Organizing Emotions
Psychologist and author Paul Ekman explains that most people don't organize their emotions. What they sometimes do, however, is try to avoid certain situations which could give rise to specific emotions. Using himself as..
Orientation, Training and Evaluation
This clip looks at the management of human resources from the point at which a new employee is hired. It covers orientation and training, as well as the need for performance evaluation. Finally, the clip makes some recom..
Origins of Total Quality Management
The origins of the Total Quality Management philosophy can be traced back more than half a century to the work of W. Edwards Deming. In working with Japanese engineers and scientists to rebuild Japan's industrial capacit..