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Work teams for four purposes
- Advice
- Production
- Project
- Action
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Stages for group development
- Forming
- Storming
- Norming
- Performing
- Adjourning
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Three kinds of conflict
- Personalty
- Intergroup
- Cross-cultural
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Personalty conflict
interpersonal opposition based on personal dislike, disagreement, or differing styles
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Programmed conflict
- designed to elicit different opinions without inciting people's personal feelings
- (Devils Advocate & Dialectic Method)
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Dialectic Method
process of having two people or groups play opposing roles in a debate in order to better understand the proposal
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Group think
a cohesive groups blind unwillingness to consider alternatives
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Dysfunctional conflict
conflict that hinders the organization's performance or threatens its interests
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Functional conflict
benefits the main purposes of the organization and serves its interests
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5 sources of power
- Legitimate power (formal position)
- Reward power
- Coercive power (threatening)
- Expert power (knowledge)
- Referent power (personal attraction)
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Crowdsourcing
obtaining needed services, ideas, or content by soliciting contributions from a large group of people and especially from the online community
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Why control is needed
- Adapt to change & uncertainty
- Discover irregularities & errors
- Reduce costs, Increase productivity, add value
- Detect oppertunities
- Deal with complexity
- Decentralize decision making & facilitate teamwork
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Bureaucratic control
an approach to organizational control that is characterized by use of rules, regulations, and formal authority to guide performance.
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Decentralized control
an approach to organizational control that is characterized by informal and organic structural arrangements
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Fixed budget
allocates resources on the basis of a single estimate of costs
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variable budget
allows the allocation of resources to vary in proportion with various levels of activity
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Incremental budgeting
allocates increased or decreased funds to a department by using the last budget period period as a reference point
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