Organizational Behavior

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Organizational Behavior

• Randy Haffner
• Leadership Roundtable
• July 20, 2005

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Organizational Behavior Defined

• The systematic study of the actions and
  attitudes that people exhibit within
  organizations.
• Robbins, 2003

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Haffners Model
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Collective Purpose (Odomirok 2001)

• Core Ideology (Collins and Porras 1994)
• Shared Goals, Values and Beliefs (Scott 2001)
• Individual Identification (Weick 1995)
• Group Dynamics

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Organizational Learning

• Environmental Aspect (Senge 1990)
• Continuous Development
• Fluid, Organic, Boundary-Less and Seamless
  (Wheatley 1999)
• Adaptable

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Change Agency

• The Difficulty of Change (Kotter 1996)
• Change of Beliefs
• Complexity Theory (Fullan 2001)

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Culture

• System of Shared Meaning
• The Working Value Set
• It is the game. (Gerstner 2002)

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Allocating Resources

• A True Reflections of Values
• Must be Correlated to Collective Purpose
• Every Dollar is Sacred
• Recognize our Explicit and Implicit Conflicts
• Transparency

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Allocating Resources

• Resource Allocation
• Operating vs. Capital
• Human Resources vs. Financial Resources
• Practical Aspects
• Capital follows Operations
• Capital is to Execute Strategic Plan

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Allocating Capital Resources

• Pro Forma Results
• EBDIT Percent
• Return on Investment
• Economic Value Added
• Payback
• Systematic Approach

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The Joust
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Works Cited

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• Fullan, M. (1993). Change Forces. Levittown, PA,
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• Fullan, M. (2001). Leading in a Culture of
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• Gerstner, L. V. J. (2002). Who Says Elephants
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• Kotter, J. P. (1996). Leading Change. Boston, MA,
  Harvard Business School Press.
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• Robbins, S. P. (2003). Essentials of
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• Weick, K. E. (1995). Sensemaking in
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• Wheatley, M. J. (1999). Leadership and the New
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