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Chapter 11
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Management
Undergraduate 3
05/02/2010

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Team Building
Definition
activities that promote the idea that people who work together can work together as a team
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Horizontal Coordination Model
Definition
a model of the three components of organizational design needed to achieve new product innovation: departmental specialization,boundary spanning, and horizontal linkages
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Idea Champions
Definition
organizational members who provide the time and energy to make things happen; sometimes called advocates, intrapreneurs, and change agents.
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Idea Incubator
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safe harbor where ideas from employees throughout the organization can be developed without interference from company bureaucracy or politics.
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Incremental Change
Definition
a series of continual progressions that maintain an organization's general equilibrium and often affect only one organizational part.
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Large Group Intervention
Definition
an approach that brings together participants from all parts of the organization (and may include outside stakeholders as well)to discuss problems or opportunities and plan for change.
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Management Champion
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a manager who acts as a supporter and sponsor of a technical champion to shield and promote and idea within the organization.
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New-Venture Fund
Definition
a fund that provides financial resources to employees to develop new ideas, products, or businesses.
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Organization Development
Definition
a behavioral science field devoted to improving performance through trust, open confrontation of problems, employee empowerment and participation, the design of meaningful work, cooperation between groups, and the full use of human potential.
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Organizational Innovation
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the adoption of an idea or behavior that is new to an organization's industry, market, or general environment.
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Radical Change
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a breaking of the frame of reference for an organization, often creating a new equilibrium because the entire organization is transformed.
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Skunkworks
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separate, small, informal, highly autonomous, and often secretive group that focuses on breakthrough ideas for the business.
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Strategy and Structure Changes
Definition
changes in the administrative domain of an organization, including structure, policies, reward systems, labor relations, coordination devices, management information control systems, and accounting and budgeting.
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Switching Structures
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an organization creates an organic structure when such a structure is needed for the initiation of new ideas.
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Technical Champion
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a person who generates or adopts and develops an idea for a technological innovation and is devoted to it, even to the extent of risking position or prestige; also called product champion.
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Technology Changes
Definition
changes in an organization's production process, including its knowledge and skills base, that enable distinctive competence.
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Time-Based Competition
Definition
delivering products and services faster than competitors, giving companies a competitive edge.
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Venture Teams
Definition
a technique to foster creativity within organizations in which a small team is set up as its own company to pursue 'innovations.
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Product and Service Changes
Definition
changes in an organization's product or service outputs.
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Organizational Change
Definition
the adoption of a new idea or behavior by an organization.
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Dual-Core Approach
Definition
an organizational change perspective that identifies the unique processes associated with administrative change compared to those associated with technical change.
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Culture Changes
Definition
changes in the values, attitudes, expecrations, beliefs, abilities, and behavior of employees.
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Creativity
Definition
the generation of novel ideas that may meet perceived needs or respond to opportunities.
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Creative Departments
Definition
organizational departments that initiate change, such as research and development, engineering,design, and systems analysis
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Change Process
Definition
the way in which changes occur in an organization.
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Ambidextrious Approach
Definition
a characteristic of an organization that can behave in both an organic and a mechanistic way.
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