Slides for Week 10

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Slides for Week 10
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Analyzing Cases

• Columns vs. Rows
• Organization of focus for analysis
• General Environment
• pp. 68 69
• Be sure to identify classification
• Task Environment
• Be sure to identify the who
• AND What the who did that had a salient impact
  on the organization.

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Enron Organization of Analysis

• Must look at the responses of Enron.

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Internal Environment

• Review pages 40-41
• Review page 71.
• Does not include strategy, actions or responses.
  Includes on conditions, characteristics and
  forces.
• Employees may also perform the role of
  regulator or customer etc. But put in
  appropriate column (task factor) when performing
  in those roles.

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Writing

• Do not use clausal statements
• ie. because
• If rows are completed appropriately, it will be
  apparent.

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• Social Responsibility determination is based on
  ____
• The culture of the firm
• The firms responses
• The salient stimuli
• None of the above

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Social Responsibility

• Use classification from page 72.
• In justification
• Limited to responses you have identified in the
  response column.

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Row Cells

• No need to repeat a lot of the same.
• If one General Environment dimension was related
  to 3 task factors, you can use the table tool to
  adjust cells, if needed.

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Five Meta-Trends Changing the World

• Cultural Modernization
• Economic Globalization
• Universal Connectivity
• Transactional Transparency
• Social Adaptation

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Cultural Modernization

• Universal education?
• Meritocracy?
• Civil law?
• Birth rates?
• Assaults on worlds traditional cultures

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Economic Globalization

• Threats from global competitors
• Trade liberalization

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Universal Connectivity

• Ability to communicate
• Anywhere, any time
• Integration of wireless media, cell phone, etc.
• WSJ 6/14/07 Mobile phone use (April 07)
• Took photos 63.1
• Took video 20.1
• Watched RV and/or video 6.7
• Listened to must 7.1

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Transactional Transparency

• Impact of Sarbanes-Oxley Act

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Social Adaptation

• Assign less weight to institutional guidance.
• Reduction of paperwork
• Lifestyle changes

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Facing Diversity

• Recruiting a diverse workforce
• Managing a diverse workforce
• Leveraging the diversity

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What is Diversity?

• It is more than race and gender
• Where should there be diversity?

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Reasons for Valuing Diversity

• Increasing competition for markets
• Demand for labor
• Economic imperative to devise new ways or
  organizing the work process for rapid response to
  changing conditions.

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A Diverse and Competitive America

• 42 of new labor force entrants are either
  immigrants or minorities.
• The three realities
• A significant number of American minorities are
  making it!
• Vast numbers of American minorities live right at
  the margin
• The existence of severe minority poverty.

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Workplace and Society Diversity

• Racial and ethic diversity
• But must recognize within each grouping there is
  diversity of
• Educational background
• Economic status
• Social standing
• Different problems require different solutions
  no one size fits all.

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Cultural Contrasts

• Time challenge
• Language challenge
• Life goal challenge
• Communication challenge
• Work and Activity challenge

• Use of Space challenge
• Power challenge
• Relationship challenge
• How to relate to oneself
• Spirituality challenge
• Nature Environment challenge

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Managing

• Development programs
• Understanding differences and commonalities.

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How to benefit from diversity?