Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Staffing –
1. Hiring new people with new skills
2. Firing people w/ inappropriate skills
3. Training existing employees to learn
new skills
–Executive Succession
Insiders versus Outsiders?
Problems in Retrenchment–
“Downward Spiral”
–Downsizing (right-sizing?)
•Eliminate unnecessary work
Not across the board cuts
•Contract out work for cost savings but…
Focus on the future
•Plan for long-run efficiencies
•Communicate reasons for action
•Invest in remaining employees
•Develop value-added jobs for redeployment
Leading
coaching individuals to use their abilities and skills
most effectively and efficiently to achieve
organizational goals.
–Integration
Shared cultural/managerial practices
–Assimilation
Acquired company adopts new culture
–Separation
Unique cultures survive
–Deculturation
Impose cultural/managerial practices
Action Plan
1. Actions to be taken
2. Dates to begin and end
3. Person responsible for carrying out the action
4. Person responsible for monitoring
5. Expected financial and physical consequences
6. Contingency Plans
Management By Objectives –
–Establish objectives
–Setting individual objectives (shared)
–Action plan
–Periodic performance review