Charles Handy classified organizations into 4 categories: A. Power cultures B. T
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Question
Charles Handy classified organizations into 4 categories:
A. Power cultures
B. Task cultures
C. Bureaucratic cultures, and
D. Professional or individualistic cultures.
Discuss the scenarios below and put them in one or more of the organizational cultures you think they belong to:
1. Everyone has a distinct voice and all opinions deserve to be aired.
2. A charismatic leader in any department in a large organization.
3. Everyone has a role, a job description and a formal relationship with others in related roles.
4. Public sector organizations and large financial institutions.
5. Owner-managed businesses.
6. Modern manufacturing companies.
7. Organizations are used to forming task forces and problem-solving teams.
8. There is probably a parallel informal set of relationships that people use to ‘get around the system’ and to ‘get things done’.
9. The organization is so informal and decentralized.
10. No significant products will really be approved until the person at the top has said yes.
Explanation / Answer
1. Everyone has a distinct voice and all opinions deserve to be aired.
2. A charismatic leader in any department in a large organization.
3. Everyone has a role, a job description and a formal relationship with others in related roles.
4. Public sector organizations and large financial institutions.
5.Owner-managed businesses.
6. Modern manufacturing companies.
7. Organizations are used to forming task forces and problem-solving teams.
8. There is probably a parallel informal set of relationships that people use to ‘get around the system’ and to ‘get things done’.
9. The organization is so informal and decentralized.
10. No significant products will really be approved until the person at the top has said yes.