Organizational Change in the Public Sector This research proposal explores the feasibility of management in the public Sector as an organizational paradigm and new model in organizational development. The literature review reviews numerous journal articles that explore on the key concepts of change management strategies from a public sector project management perspective. The authors suggest that employee's participation, effective feedback across the board, and empowerment of subordinate staffs is a major

For the most part, I would probably not want to work at Cisco. The convoluted structure devalues individual responsibility, which to my mind removes incentive for individual excellence. A manager's output is dependent on others, but there does not appear to be a mechanism to hold underperforming managers responsible. When the team is entirely comprised of internally motivated individuals, Cisco's system will work brilliantly. However, the system encourages managers to

Organizational Diagnosis of Palm Palm Computing had reinvented the hand held computer market overnight with the line of PalmPilot and similar devices geared to the mobile gadget industry. According to Clancy (1999), "Palm Computing ultimately sold faster than the videocassette recorder, the color TV, the cell phone, even the personal computer that was its great-grandfather. Introduced in April 1996, within 18 months Palm Computing had shipped more than 1 million units

Organizational Behavior In 1984, the movie The Gods Must be Crazy depicted a Kalahari bushman who finds a Coca-Cola bottle that was discarded from an airplane into the desert. The bushman does not recognize the bottle or the brand, and the situation leads to all manner of confusion among the tribe, who try to decipher the meaning of the bottle. Such a story would be rather incomprehensible today, that there would

Thus, the HR activities are currently more structured, but in the same time more decentralized to be able to respect the local characteristics of each market. Reference List Barney J.B. 1986. Organizational Culture: Can it Be a Source of Competitive Advantage?, the Academy of Management Review, vol. 11(3): pp. 656-665. Bass B.M. & Avolio B.J. 1994. Transformational Leadership and Organizational Culture, International Journal of Public Administration, vol. 17(3): pp. 541-554. Beer M. &

Organizational Transformation The chosen case studies are those of Pfizer and Intel. The two case studies are much similar because they are founded on the basis of organizational capability being improved through better HR practices. They show that HR practices are important in ensuring success in organizations and ensuring better performance. As stated by Ulrich et al. (2009) , the case studies show that it is important to think about organizational capability