Mintzberg Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

All the chapters we need to read for Mintzberg's 'Management of Organization'. This is the 2007 English edition; Mintzberg on Management.

Table of Contents Week 1 Thinking about strategy – Stoelhorst How competitive forces shape strategy - Porter Firm sources and sustained competitive advantage - Barley Week 2 . Strategy and the “Business Portfolio” – Hedley From Competitive advantage to corporate strategy – Porter Rethinking the corporation: the role of core competencies – Prahalad & Hamel Week 3 A formal strategic planning process – Hax & Majluf The fall and rise of strategic planning – Min...

Theorists have formulated methods to try and create a working environment that is very effective for businesses. Such theorists include Mintzberg who came up with a very effective theory on the structures of business organizations. In His theory, he presents organizations in five major structures as discussed below…

Chapter 0 (Introduction) File: 6e c00 introTestB, Chapter 0, Introduction Multiple Choice 1. What requires a unit of analysis, has been processed, and requires human mediation? a) Data b) Information c) Knowledge d) Legacy e) None of the above Ans: b (Medium) Response: See page 11 2. Roles that managers fill, according to Mintzberg, include all of the following except: a) Figurehead b) Disseminator c) Disciplinarian d) Entrepreneur e) Resource Allocator Ans: c (Hard) Respons...

Short summary Organization & Environment, all chapters book.

Summary of the first six chapters of Christensen - the innovators perspective and the five articles (Worren, Mintzberg, Birkinshaw&Gibson, Camuffo &Wilhelm and Womack & Jones). Not included; Achterbergh & Vriens and Thompson (There is a summary on Brightspace)

A comprehensive and brief summary for Strategy and Organisation mandatory readings in week 4. The papers are: - Eisenhardt & Zbaracki (1992): Strategic Decision making - Hambrick & Mason (1984): Upper echelons - Quinn (1989): Logical incrementalism - Mintzberg, Ahlstrand, & Lampel (1998): Strategy as cognition.

Organizational Behavior, 15e (Robbins/Judge) Chapter 1 What Is Organizational Behavior? 1) ________ are defined as people who oversee the activities of others and who are responsible for attaining goals in organizations. A) Assistants B) Managers C) Secretaries D) Interns E) Apprentices Answer: B 2) Sally Mitchell works as a manager at an environmental organization. She is currently working on a global warming project and decides what tasks related to creating awareness about the issu...

A comprehensive and short summary of all papers that are mandatory readings for week 3 for Strategy and Organisation. All the relevant content is summarised and it's structured following the guidelines for the exam. The summarised papers are: - Hax & Majluf (1991): A Formal Strategic Planning Process - Mintzberg (1994): The Fall and Rise of Strategic Planning - Grant (2003): Strategic planning in a turbulent environment: evidence from the oil majors

A comprehensive and short summary of all papers that are mandatory readings for week 6 for Strategy and Organisation. All the relevant content is summarised and it's structured following the guidelines for the exam. The summarised papers are: - Kaplan & Norton (1996): Having Trouble with your strategy? Then map it -Bourgeois & Brodwin (1984): Strategic Implementation: five approaches to an elusive phenomenon - Van de Ven & Sun (2011): Breakdowns in Implementing Models of Organisational Change...