by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Management, Leadership, & Organizational Behavior
What are the Five Disciplines of Senge?The five disciplines of Peter Sense is a model used to identify organizational ‘learning disabilities’ and use the “Five Disciplines” as antidotes to them. The five components in the model from Senge are:...
by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Management, Leadership, & Organizational Behavior
What is Force Field Analysis? Force Field Analysis, created by Kurt Lewin, states that any issue is held in balance by the interaction of two opposing sets of forces. Driving forces – Those seeking to promote change Restraining forces – Those attempting...
by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Management, Leadership, & Organizational Behavior
What is the Garbage Can Model?The Garbage Can Model of Organizational Choice, created by Cohen, March & Olsen, is an organizational choice model to inform decisions about the internal organization of a business. An Organization is compared to a garbage can. An...
by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Management, Leadership, & Organizational Behavior
What is Gestalt Theory?Gestalt theory holds “there are wholes which, instead of being the sum of parts existing independently, give their parts specific functions or properties that can only be defined in relation to the whole in question” (Wolfgang...
by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Management, Leadership, & Organizational Behavior
What is Integrative Thinking?Integrative Thinking is a decision-making approach that allows for the development of creative solutions rather than merely choosing the best solution from a list of alternatives. Integrative thinking seeks to eliminate barriers to...
by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Management, Leadership, & Organizational Behavior
What is the Horn Effect Bias? The horn effect, coined by Thorndike (1920), often called the forked-tail effect, is a cognitive bias (a form of confirmation bias) that causes one’s perception of another person to be unduly influenced by a single negative trait....
by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Operations, Project, & Supply Chain Management
What is Hoshin Kanri?The Japanese word Hoshin means: a course, a policy, a plan, an aim. The word Kanri means administration, management, control, charge of, care for. Hoshin Kanri (HK) is a cyclic planning and management concept from Japanese origin. It is applied at...
by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Management, Leadership, & Organizational Behavior
What is Inclusive Value Measurement (IVM)?Inclusive Value Measurement, proposed by Prof. Philip M’Pherson, is a rule-based mathematical model of multidimensional human-valuation (free from subjectivity) that can be keyed into a wide range of applications in...
by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Management, Leadership, & Organizational Behavior
What is Strategic Stakeholder Management?Strategic Stakeholder Management, described by Berman, Wicks, Kotha, Jones (1999), seeks to maximize shareholder value over an uncertain time frame through key stakeholder relationships.What is the Direct Effects Model? In the...
by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Management, Leadership, & Organizational Behavior
What are Intrinsic Motivators? Intrinsic motivators are internal or innate human desires that, when satisfied, give rise to satisfaction or contentment. Why are Intrinsic Motivators Important for Business?By taking care of innate human desires, managers can provide...
