How does australian culture compare to other world culture

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Part 1- In your blog, you should address the following two sections:

(1) Section 1: list the key ideas you have extracted from the prescribed e-learning 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.

Activity 1: Ford and Taylorism

URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PdmNbqtDdI

Questions to consider:

1. Would workers in Australia, America or Europe accept the Taylorism in this form today?

2. Consider the design of scripts for use in Call Centres, can you see Taylorism in that? Explain.

3. This 'clip' is showing history from 100 years ago. Some would say that 'the world has moved on' and these ideas are out of date. However, could there be parts of the world today for which these ideas might be just what they need? Explain.

Activity 2: Fayolism as the Necessary Complement of Taylorism - Pearson, Norman M. (Feb., 1945) The American Political Science Review, Vol. 39, No. 1 , pp. 68-80

URL: https://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/1948832?uid=3737536&uid=2&uid=4&sid=21103317946303

Questions to consider:

1. While some would argue that this paper, now 70 years beyond its publication date is 'out of date', could there still be value in the ideas expressed here in other parts of the world?

Part 2- In your blog, you should address the following two sections:

(1) Section 1: list the key ideas you have extracted from the prescribed e-learning 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.

Activity 1: Thomas Friedman on Globalisation; 3 Eras of Globalisation; World is flat

URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lp4znWHvsjU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oM2BguxRSyY

Questions to consider:

1. What would be some of the key drawbacks or risks of living in the flat world of Globalisation 3.0 as Friedman describes it?

2. Do you agree with Friedman's iron rule of the flat world? Explain.

3. Is the level of globalisation uniform across the world? Explain.

Activity 2: Pankaj Ghemawat on Globalisation

URL: https://www.ted.com/talks/pankaj_ghemawat_actually_the_world_isn_t_flat.html

Questions to consider:

1. Has your view on globalisation changed after listening to Professor Ghemawat? Explain.

2. Consider where you have seen the fears that people have about globalisation. Do you think these fears may subside with some data points that may suggest otherwise?

Activity 3: Online tool to explore different countries' 5 dimensions by Hofstede

URL: https://geert-hofstede.com/countries.html

Questions to consider:

1. How does the Australian culture compare to other world cultures (eg. Your home country or other countries that you have visited)?

2. Do you agree with the survey results for the Australian culture? Why or why not?

Activity 4: 'The myth of national culture' - Counter argument to Hofstede's work by Professor Brendan McSweeney at Royal Holloway, University of London

URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_l84Dj2eXY

Questions to consider:

1. Do you agree with Professor McSweeney's view on national cultures? Why or why not? After viewing the survey result done by Hofstede on your home country, who do you think offers a more compelling argument on national cultures? Can a single culture be used to determine the actions of entire population?

Activity 5: 'Riding the waves of culture' - Talk given by FonsTrompenaars at TEDxAmsterdam

URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmyfjKjcbm0

Questions to consider:

1. Consider your experience with cultural conflict or culture shock. What were the different viewpoints that you had to reconcile? And how did you overcome the differences?

2. What would be the benefits of connecting different viewpoints as Trompenaar suggests?

Activity 6: 'Building a cross-cultural web design for a wider audience' (Christian Arno in Design on 22nd Jun 2010)

URL: https://www.onextrapixel.com/2010/06/22/building-a-cross-cultural-web-design-for-a-wider-audience/

Questions to consider:

1. Can the concept of High and Low Context cultures be applied to other areas of business? - marketing and advertising, PR, customer and supplier relationship management, etc.

Part 3- In your blog, you should address the following two sections:

1) Section 1: list the key ideas you have extracted from the prescribed e-learning 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.

Activity 1: Corporate culture and strategy

URL: 'Culture clash: When corporate culture fights strategy, it can cost you' https://knowledge.wpcarey.asu.edu/article.cfm?aid=31

Questions to consider:

1. Can you think of any examples where you experienced various culture types (Market, Clan, Adhocracy and Hierarchy culture) as a consumer to, or employee of, an organisation?

2. If so, what is your evaluation of the aligment between its corporate culture and strategy?

Activity 2: Definition of culture

URL: What is Organizational Culture? And Why Should We Care? https://blogs.hbr.org/2013/05/what-is-organizational-culture/

Questions to consider:

3. Why do you think people's definition of culture may vary?

4. Which definition of culture do you agree with most and why?

Activity 3: Corporate culture instilled in HRM practices and customer satisfaction

URLs:

(1) 'Why Zappos Pays New Employees to Quit--And You Should Too' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQLTQAv5JQA

(2) 'Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh talks about building a culture-based company' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdKZapHZL4c

Question to consider:

5. What does building a culture-based company entail?

Activity 4: Toyota's corporate culture and the problem of spreading its culture

URL: 'MIT's Steven Spear Discusses Toyota's Corporate Culture' (Interview on Bloomberg TV) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCaKFPjfG7s

Question to consider:

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

Activity 5: Cultural web and its use in practice (call centre)

URL: 'Using cultural models for changing corporate culture'

https://www.changefactory.com.au/articles/change-management/using-cultural-models-for-changing-corporate-culture/

Questions to consider:

7. Do you agree with the author's view on the effectiveness of cultural web model in changing corporate culture (compared to other models of corporate culture) as presented in the article? Why or why not?

8. What would be the benefits of using typology type instead?

Part 4- In your blog, you should address the following two sections:

1) Section 1: list the key ideas you have extracted from the prescribed e-learning 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.

Activity 1: Structure and strategy

URL: BCG's Yves Morieux view on OrganisationDesignx https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm7d1dzOKmw

Questions to consider:

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

Activity 2: Holacracy

URL: Zappos just abolished bosses. Inside tech's latest management craze. https://www.vox.com/2014/7/11/5876235/silicon-valleys-latest-management-craze-holacracy-explained

Questions to consider:

1. What's your understanding of holacracy? How would you describe it compared to bureaucracy and team-based structure?

2. Discuss how Contingency Factors of Organisational Design are at work in the case of Zappos?

3. In what ways do you think innovative culture is related to (agile) organisational structure?

Part 5- In your blog, you should address the following two sections:

1) Section 1: list the key ideas you have extracted from the prescribed e-learning 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.

Activity 1: The Milgram Experiment

URL:

(1) Milgram Experiment - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcvSNg0HZwk

(2) Milgram Experiment replicated in Australia (Psychology study by La Trobe University in the 1970s) - https://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 2: Solomon Asch and Group Conformity

URL:

(1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyDDyT1lDhA;

(2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuvGh_n3I_M

Questions to consider:

1. Does your own personal decision-making always reflect an objective process?

2. Does the desire to be accepted as a part of a group leave one susceptible to conforming to the group's norms?

3. Identify and discuss situational factors that can enable a group to exert pressure strong enough to change a member's attitude and behavior.

Part 6- In your blog, you should address the following two sections:

1) Section 1: list the key ideas you have extracted from the prescribed e-learning 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.

Activity 1: Linear Programming Word Problem

URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ACJ9ewUC6U

Questions to consider:

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

2. What would be the limitations of linear programming?

3. In what kinds of situation could the linear programming be useful to decision making?

Part 7- In your blog, you should address the following two sections:

1) Section 1: list the key ideas you have extracted from the prescribed e-learning 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.

Activity 1: Management by Objectives (Prof.Fredmund Malik)

URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CX7m8J-rGDc

Questions to consider:

1. Do you agree with Prof Malik's views on objectives and planning? Why or why not?

Activity 2: PERT

URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdDzybQ_9vM (Watch only the first 15:40 for Critical Path Method)

Questions to consider:

1. From watching the video clip, can you identify the benefits of using critical path for planning?

Part 8- In your blog, you should address the following two sections:

1) Section 1: list the key ideas you have extracted from the prescribed e-learning 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.

Activity 1: Product Life Cycle

URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Edug_Z2mACc

Questions to consider:

1. Identify at least one product that fits into each stage of the Product Life Cycle.

Activity 2: THE ANSOFF MATRIX

URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AORoMxgp428 (Watch only the first 4 minutes)

Questions to consider:

1. Can you think of some examples of organisations diversifying the product (service) offerings or diversifying into other markets?

Part 9- In your blog, you should address the following two sections:

1) Section 1: list the key ideas you have extracted from the prescribed e-learning 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.

Activity 1: Hawthorne Studies

URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7RHjwmVGhs&list=PLOyGniZzYVh-qFD_vAJq96YlLdnp_pznP

Questions to consider:

1. Explain in your own words the main findings of Hawthorne Studies.

2. Based on Hawthorne studies, explain how norms and status exert influence on an individual's behaviour.

Activity 2: Repatriation Integration Program

URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vISO9Hldhv0

Questions to consider:

1. Identify the challenges that repatriated employees and their employers face upon their return to home country.

2. What should the repatriation integration program entail to address the logistical and psychological concerns of the repatriated employees?

Part 10- In your blog, you should address the following two sections:

1) Section 1: list the key ideas you have extracted from the prescribed e-learning 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.

Activity 1: Hertzberg's Theory of Motivation

URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ub8R5c6tkE

Questions to consider:

1. Explain the key concepts of Hertzberg theory of motivation.

2. Explain how would use the finding of the Hertzberg theory of motivation to motivate your workers in a fast food industry?

Activity 2: Employee Motivation: Expectancy Theory

URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zd5m8V9No0

Questions to consider:

1. After watching the videos, how do you use this theory to motivate yourself?

2. What are the strengths and weakness of this theory?

Part 11- Activity 1: Igniting creativity to transform corporate culture -

URL: Catherine Courage at TEDxKyoto 2012 https://tedxtalks.ted.com/video/Igniting-creativity-to-transf-2

Questions to consider:

1. Do you agree with Catherine's view on creative thinking - i.e., it is our birth right and we should learn to be creative drawing on our childhood?

2. How practical are her approaches to bringing creativity to workplace?

Activity 2: Lead and be the change

URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yv-QiSvuLLM

Questions to consider:

1. Have you experienced an emotional rollercoaster when faced with a radical change, as described by Professor Mueller-Eberstein in the video? Discuss how the Theory of Transition may be applied to your experience.

2. Can you relate Kotter's 8-Step Change Model to Professor Mueller-Eberstein tips for successful change management?

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