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| Barnard - 5 aspects of an organization |
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| Size, interdependence, input, throughput, and output |
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■ Nature of the environment, relationship within an organization
■ Characteristics of exchanges among libraries
■ Environmental impact on LIS internal structure and operations |
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| Basic Open System Characteristics (3) |
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Definition
1. Exist to accomplish a specific objective
2. Objectives evolve over the lifetime of the organization
3. Change objectives in response to changing environment |
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| Operating Environments (4) and who? |
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Definition
| Placid, placid-random, disturbed, turbulent. Emery and Trist |
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| Organization systems that match structures to the environment (2) and who? |
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| Mechanistic, organic. Burns and Stalker. |
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| What is environmental scanning? |
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| Way to define an organization's uniqueness. |
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| Anti-environment view. Who and what? |
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| Child. Decision makers have autonomy beyond the environment, organizations are not passive, Managers misjudge what is the real environment affecting versus their own internalized perceptions. |
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| Organizational culture. Who and what does it consist of? |
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Kell and Carroll. Organizational culture exerts an influence. Consists of:
Shared values
Assumptions
Expectations about what the organization is
How things are down |
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| 5 elements of organizational culture. Who and what? |
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Definition
Bloor and Dawson.
■ Operating and culture systems
■ Historical factors
■ Societal context
■ External environment
■ Professional external environment |
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| "We learn from heroes, slogans, stories, symbols, and ceremonies." |
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| Jassawalla and Sashittal. |
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| Viewpoints of Cultural Diversity |
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Definition
■ Assimilation - patriotic ideals
■ Colorblind - individual perspective
■ Cultural centrist - historical identity
■ Elitists - social ties to upper class
■ Integrationists - forcing living and working together
■ Meritocratist - individual abilities and hard work
■ Seclusionist - groups live and work apart
■ Transcendist - human spirit
■ Victim - compensation for past injustices |
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