Strategic Alliances2 Strategic alliance is defined as an agreement in which managers pool or share their organizations resources and know how with a foreign company, and the two organizations share the rewards and risk of starting a new venture. There’re many advantages of strategic alliances and network structures as recent innovations in organizational architecture. They can gain better access to attractive country market from host […]

Transformational Leadership and Organizational Culture by Bernard M. Bass , Bruce J. Avolio The organization’s culture develops in large part from its leadership while the culture of an organization can also affect the development of its leadership. For example, transactional leaders work within their organizational cultures following existing rules, procedures, and norms; transformational leaders change their culture by first understanding it and then realigning the […]

Organizational culture refers to the the shared values and norms together with the  expectations that guide the way people approach their work and the way they interact to one another. Most a times, people are influenced by the kind of environment that surround them, and therefore the people working within an organization will be strongly influenced by the culture of that organization once they join […]

Introduction Schumpeter (1949) wrote of the individual and collective embodiment of the “entrepreneurial spirit” – the “Unternehmergeist”. One company that channels this “geist” is the Sillicon Valley, California-based design and consultancy firm, IDEO. Founded in 1991, this self-styled innovation and design firm balances process and product innovations grounded in a human-centred design philosophy. Through this approach IDEO elided the pitfalls of the technology push versus […]

Organizational culture refers to the kind of environment created by interaction of the employees of an organization at the workplace. It is determined by the employees’ past experiences, strengths, weaknesses, likes, dislikes and so on and it is represent an intricate pattern of individual attitudes, beliefs, views and ideas held by the members of an organization. Although the organization leaders are not involved in creating […]

Novotel was founded in 1967 by Paul Dubrule and Gerard Pellison, neither of whom came from a hotel background. Driven by an ambitious enterpreneurial spirit, they expanded they empire by building new hotels and buying existing hotel chains. This case study focuses on Novotel in Europe, where Novotel is the market leader with 214 Novotel in 18 countries. From the beginning when they opened their […]

INTRODUCTION All companies in this world have the insatiable desire to become the benchmark of their respective industries. Everyone wants to become a leader of any product line they offer. To be able to do so is never an easy job. It requires a great deal of hard work and intelligence. Group leaders have to do their jobs in order to make necessary adjustments in […]

ABSTRACT This paper discusses concepts of organisational transformation. Specifically, it examines how the structure and cultures of the organisation can either facilitate or reduce its capability to transform. In doing this, the paper highlights six theories of organisational transformation. It also highlights the various types of organisational change: planned, emergent and incremental. It later focuses on the impact of organisational culture and structure on the […]

Organizational culture refers to the the shared values and norms together with the  expectations that guide the way people approach their work and the way they interact to one another. Most a times, people are influenced by the kind of environment that surround them, and therefore the people working within an organization will be strongly influenced by the culture of that organization once they join […]

Introduction In area of Management and leadership, one of the most crucial and effective factors that determine the performance of an organization in public sector is the organizational culture. Organizational culture has been studied extensively for the past 30 or more years (Schein E. H., 1985). Lots of books have been written and much research has been done about it, and also wide range of […]