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This document outlines an assignment for a management and organizations course due on August 21st. It provides instructions for students to choose two activities from a list of five options, and for each activity: (1) list key ideas extracted from the prescribed online content, and (2) apply those ideas to their own experience and an organization they know. The activities cover topics like Taylorism, Toyota's corporate culture, organizational structure and strategy, the Milgram experiment, and linear programming. Students are asked to write 500 words for each chosen activity and include references in Harvard style.

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Assignment 1 PDF

This document outlines an assignment for a management and organizations course due on August 21st. It provides instructions for students to choose two activities from a list of five options, and for each activity: (1) list key ideas extracted from the prescribed online content, and (2) apply those ideas to their own experience and an organization they know. The activities cover topics like Taylorism, Toyota's corporate culture, organizational structure and strategy, the Milgram experiment, and linear programming. Students are asked to write 500 words for each chosen activity and include references in Harvard style.

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Assignment #1

Management and Organizations in a Global Environment


DUE DATE: 21st AUGUST 2016 (FRIDAY)
Note: choose two activities and you should address the following two
sections:
(1) Section 1: list the key ideas you have extracted from the prescribed elearning activity.
(2) Section 2: apply those ideas to your own experience, to an organisation
you know and to the topic(s) of this subject.
Visit the following URLs, and use 'Questions to consider' to guide your
thinking and right 500 words in each activity.
Please do references as well with each activity and make sure it is in Harvard
style

Activity 1: Ford and Taylorism

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PdmNbqtDdI
Questions to consider:
1. Would workers in Australia, America or Europe accept the Taylorism in this form
today?

Activity 2: Toyotas corporate culture and the problem of spreading its culture
URL: MIT's Steven Spear Discusses Toyota's Corporate Culture (Interview on Bloomberg TV)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCaKFPjfG7s
Question to consider:

1. How would you describe Toyota's culture using the seven dimensions of organisational culture and/ or
the Cultural Web?

Activity 3: Structure and strategy


URL: BCGs Yves Morieux view on Organisation Designx

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm7d1dzOKmw
Questions to consider:

1. Yves Morieux claims that structure follows strategy. Is this always the case?

Activity 4: The Milgram Experiment


URL:
(1) Milgram Experiment - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcvSNg0HZwk
(2) Milgram Experiment replicated in Australia (Psychology study by La Trobe University in the
1970s) - http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2012/s3489852.htm

Questions to consider:

1. To what extent would you be capable of inflicting real pain (physical, mental and/or emotional) on
another human being?

Activity 5: Linear Programming Word Problem


URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ACJ9ewUC6U
Questions to consider:

1. What insights into rational decision making approach can you draw from this video?

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