9Putting It All Together: Organizational Effectiveness

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Learning Objectives

By the end of this chapter, you should be able to:

•  Explain how a manager’s perspective of the organizational system can help empower and align employees.

•  Describe what organizational culture is and its characteristics.

•  Define organizational development and its related interventions.

•  Discuss how measures of organizational effectiveness inform employee goals.

INTRODUCTION

The essential ingredients of organizations, as introduced in Chapter 1, are the environment; strategy and goals (products, markets clients pursued); work and technology (transformation of inputs ...

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