by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Strategy, Entrepreneurship, & Innovation
What is a Concentration Strategy?A concentration strategy is when a business focuses on a specific group of clients, a specific product, or a specific geographic market. As the name implies, the primary purpose is to allow the business to concentrate (rather than...
by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Management, Leadership, & Organizational Behavior
What Is Organizational Culture?Organizational culture refers to a broad system of shared assumptions, values, and beliefs that manifest itself through individual behavior. Organizational culture affects many aspects of the organization, including decision-making,...
by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Management, Leadership, & Organizational Behavior
What is a Social Network within an Organization?Social networks are visual maps of relationships between individuals. It can be a pattern of relationships between two or more actors. Generally, the actors share a common interest. This may be a personal interest (e.g....
by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Management, Leadership, & Organizational Behavior
What are the Five Dimensions of Work Quality?There are five key dimensions of work quality : Activity – This concerns how active a person is in a network. Control – This concerns a persons influence over the flow of information – generally arising...
by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Management, Leadership, & Organizational Behavior
What is the Nominal Group Technique?Nominal Group Technique is a decision-making rule or model that seeks to make certain all members of a group participate. It is primarily used to structure group meetings tasked with problem solving or idea generation. There are...
by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Management, Leadership, & Organizational Behavior
What is Conflict Management in Groups?There are three common views concerning the resolution of conflicts. These views apply equally to conflicts between individuals, between groups, and within groups. These theories are as follows:Traditional ViewThe traditional...
by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Management, Leadership, & Organizational Behavior
What is an Organizations Capacity for Change?Organizational capacity for change entails the organizations preparedness and ability to respond to situations requiring change. It is comprised of three elements: Human skill sets and resources, Formal systems and...
by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Management, Leadership, & Organizational Behavior
What is Lewin’s Three-Stage Process of Change?Lewin’s Three-Stage Process of change is a framework developed by psychologist Kurt Lewin. This model proposes a process for carrying out organizational change. The stages are discussed below.What is the...
by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Management, Leadership, & Organizational Behavior
What is Resistance to Change common in Organizations?There are several responses to organizational change, as follows: Active resistance – This is when individuals actively resist the change through acts intended to interrupt or disrupt change-related...
by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Management, Leadership, & Organizational Behavior
What is a Change Agent?A change agent is an individual within the organization who is the driving force behind the organizational change. The agent may be responsible for change-related activities or, more commonly, they may motivate others through any number of...
