This document discusses the need for organizations to take an adaptive approach that interweaves deliberate and emergent strategies, processes, structures, and information systems. It argues that traditional deliberate approaches are no longer suitable for today's rapidly changing business environment. An adaptive approach allows organizations to balance stability through deliberate planning while also maintaining flexibility to emerge in response to external changes. The document reviews literature on deliberate, emergent, and adaptive concepts and proposes that organizations should conceive and realize interweaving of deliberate and emergent aspects across their strategy, processes, structures, and information systems to effectively adapt.
International Journal of Humanities and Social Science Invention (IJHSSI) is an international journal intended for professionals and researchers in all fields of Humanities and Social Science. IJHSSI publishes research articles and reviews within the whole field Humanities and Social Science, new teaching methods, assessment, validation and the impact of new technologies and it will continue to provide information on the latest trends and developments in this ever-expanding subject. The publications of papers are selected through double peer reviewed to ensure originality, relevance, and readability. The articles published in our journal can be accessed online.
DOES TOP MANAGEMENT COMMITMENT AFFECT THE RISK TAKING BEHAVIOUR WITHIN SMEsChiemela Peter Oji
This document is a literature review on the topic of how top management commitment affects risk taking behaviour within small and medium enterprises (SMEs). It begins with an introduction that defines risk taking and outlines the importance of risk management for SMEs. The literature review then examines previous research on factors that influence management commitment and risk taking behaviour such as ownership, management competency, gender, and organizational culture. It also explores how management commitment can impact risk perception, rewards/benefits, and decision making within SMEs. The review concludes by discussing the relationship between management commitment and risk taking behaviour in SMEs and how this research aims to further understand that relationship.
STRATEGIC HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND SUSTAINABLE COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE: TH...pitaloka .
Researches on strategic human resource management have given major attention to the issues related to HR management
(managing people) on corporate level as a whole and integrated, than solely focuses on individual practice of HRM which is independent from other strategies of firm. This is because in order to achieve sustainable superior performance and competitive advantage, integration and confortabillitty between selected strategy and human resource policy are required to execute the strategy itself.
Inside-out approach supported by Resource Based View theory is not completely able to displace the outside-in approach in the process of HRM strategy formulation and implementation. This is caused by the fact that each of the approaches has its own advantages and disadvantages over others. The problem is how to make the role and function of strategic HRM able to directly answer all of challenges and create real solutions and add real value on the creation (value creation) so that firm wins the competition. Therefore, the role and functions of HRM must be aimed onto how to create and manage the core competencies to keep it dynamic and flexible (dynamic capabilities) to motivate the emergence of sustainable creativity and innovation which are integrated into every activity, practice, and strategy of HRM (HR Strategy) so that firm is able to adapt, integrate, arrange, and readjust its resources with the environmental changes as necessary.
This document discusses three models of managerial analysis:
1) The structure-conduct-performance paradigm focuses on harmonizing planning and control within individual organizations.
2) The systemic approach views businesses as open systems within larger environments and emphasizes transversal risk management.
3) Value-based management aims to maximize shareholder value through decision-making, resource allocation, and performance assessment.
Governance is responsible for development, coordination, economic objectives, and social legitimacy. In complex global environments, risk management models become more sophisticated.
The document discusses strategies that organizations use to manage their environment and reduce uncertainty. It describes internal strategies like domain choice, recruitment, environmental scanning, buffering, and smoothing, which involve adapting the organization. External strategies discussed include advertising, contracting, coopting, coalescing, and lobbying, which aim to alter the environment. The most comprehensive strategy an organization can take when facing an unfavorable environment is domain choice, such as broadening its strategy. Managing the environment effectively requires analyzing sources of uncertainty and properly implementing appropriate strategies.
Final Conference Paper - Gcwabaza and Crafford 21112016 - ammended (Internal)Lungelo Gcwabaza
This document discusses strategy implementation obstacles experienced by quantity surveying firms in South Africa. It finds that most strategic plans fail due to poor implementation rather than flawed strategies. Common obstacles include environmental changes outside a firm's control, poor organizational alignment with strategies, and inadequate strategy development processes. The study aims to understand barriers to implementation and how firms can overcome them to improve performance and sustainability. It finds that critical challenges include unforeseen environmental shifts, lack of consistency between organizational structure and strategies, and improper use of consultants in developing strategies.
The document discusses four approaches to organizational effectiveness: goal attainment, systems, strategic constituencies, and competing values. It defines each approach, lists their assumptions, and describes how managers can apply them. The goal attainment approach assesses effectiveness based on goal achievement, while the systems approach focuses on survival factors. The strategic constituencies approach prioritizes satisfying key external groups for resources. The competing values approach recognizes that effectiveness criteria depend on perspective. Managers should consider an organization's stage and internal/external factors when determining which approach to use.
This document discusses the need for organizations to take an adaptive approach that interweaves deliberate and emergent strategies, processes, structures, and information systems. It argues that traditional deliberate approaches are no longer suitable for today's rapidly changing business environment. An adaptive approach allows organizations to balance stability through deliberate planning while also maintaining flexibility to emerge in response to external changes. The document reviews literature on deliberate, emergent, and adaptive concepts and proposes that organizations should conceive and realize interweaving of deliberate and emergent aspects across their strategy, processes, structures, and information systems to effectively adapt.
International Journal of Humanities and Social Science Invention (IJHSSI) is an international journal intended for professionals and researchers in all fields of Humanities and Social Science. IJHSSI publishes research articles and reviews within the whole field Humanities and Social Science, new teaching methods, assessment, validation and the impact of new technologies and it will continue to provide information on the latest trends and developments in this ever-expanding subject. The publications of papers are selected through double peer reviewed to ensure originality, relevance, and readability. The articles published in our journal can be accessed online.
DOES TOP MANAGEMENT COMMITMENT AFFECT THE RISK TAKING BEHAVIOUR WITHIN SMEsChiemela Peter Oji
This document is a literature review on the topic of how top management commitment affects risk taking behaviour within small and medium enterprises (SMEs). It begins with an introduction that defines risk taking and outlines the importance of risk management for SMEs. The literature review then examines previous research on factors that influence management commitment and risk taking behaviour such as ownership, management competency, gender, and organizational culture. It also explores how management commitment can impact risk perception, rewards/benefits, and decision making within SMEs. The review concludes by discussing the relationship between management commitment and risk taking behaviour in SMEs and how this research aims to further understand that relationship.
STRATEGIC HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND SUSTAINABLE COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE: TH...pitaloka .
Researches on strategic human resource management have given major attention to the issues related to HR management
(managing people) on corporate level as a whole and integrated, than solely focuses on individual practice of HRM which is independent from other strategies of firm. This is because in order to achieve sustainable superior performance and competitive advantage, integration and confortabillitty between selected strategy and human resource policy are required to execute the strategy itself.
Inside-out approach supported by Resource Based View theory is not completely able to displace the outside-in approach in the process of HRM strategy formulation and implementation. This is caused by the fact that each of the approaches has its own advantages and disadvantages over others. The problem is how to make the role and function of strategic HRM able to directly answer all of challenges and create real solutions and add real value on the creation (value creation) so that firm wins the competition. Therefore, the role and functions of HRM must be aimed onto how to create and manage the core competencies to keep it dynamic and flexible (dynamic capabilities) to motivate the emergence of sustainable creativity and innovation which are integrated into every activity, practice, and strategy of HRM (HR Strategy) so that firm is able to adapt, integrate, arrange, and readjust its resources with the environmental changes as necessary.
This document discusses three models of managerial analysis:
1) The structure-conduct-performance paradigm focuses on harmonizing planning and control within individual organizations.
2) The systemic approach views businesses as open systems within larger environments and emphasizes transversal risk management.
3) Value-based management aims to maximize shareholder value through decision-making, resource allocation, and performance assessment.
Governance is responsible for development, coordination, economic objectives, and social legitimacy. In complex global environments, risk management models become more sophisticated.
The document discusses strategies that organizations use to manage their environment and reduce uncertainty. It describes internal strategies like domain choice, recruitment, environmental scanning, buffering, and smoothing, which involve adapting the organization. External strategies discussed include advertising, contracting, coopting, coalescing, and lobbying, which aim to alter the environment. The most comprehensive strategy an organization can take when facing an unfavorable environment is domain choice, such as broadening its strategy. Managing the environment effectively requires analyzing sources of uncertainty and properly implementing appropriate strategies.
Final Conference Paper - Gcwabaza and Crafford 21112016 - ammended (Internal)Lungelo Gcwabaza
This document discusses strategy implementation obstacles experienced by quantity surveying firms in South Africa. It finds that most strategic plans fail due to poor implementation rather than flawed strategies. Common obstacles include environmental changes outside a firm's control, poor organizational alignment with strategies, and inadequate strategy development processes. The study aims to understand barriers to implementation and how firms can overcome them to improve performance and sustainability. It finds that critical challenges include unforeseen environmental shifts, lack of consistency between organizational structure and strategies, and improper use of consultants in developing strategies.
The document discusses four approaches to organizational effectiveness: goal attainment, systems, strategic constituencies, and competing values. It defines each approach, lists their assumptions, and describes how managers can apply them. The goal attainment approach assesses effectiveness based on goal achievement, while the systems approach focuses on survival factors. The strategic constituencies approach prioritizes satisfying key external groups for resources. The competing values approach recognizes that effectiveness criteria depend on perspective. Managers should consider an organization's stage and internal/external factors when determining which approach to use.
Ch11 - Organisation theory design and change gareth jonesAnkit Kesri
The document discusses the organizational life cycle, which includes four main stages: birth, growth, decline, and death. It describes several models that explain how organizations progress through these stages and the typical challenges organizations face at each phase. For example, organizational birth involves founding a new organization and overcoming the liability of newness. The population ecology model views organizational birthrates over time as influenced by environmental factors. Organizational growth involves developing skills to acquire more resources but can lead to isomorphism. Decline results from inability to adapt to changes and may occur through several stages from unrecognized problems to crisis and dissolution.
The document discusses five common organizational structures: simple structure, machine bureaucracy, professional bureaucracy, divisional structure, and adhocracy. Each structure is defined based on characteristics like specialization, formalization, centralization, and environmental factors. Strengths and weaknesses of each structure are provided to help determine when each is best suited for an organization. The structures range from more mechanistic and standardized forms like machine bureaucracy to more organic and flexible forms like adhocracy.
We have been educated for stability – and we continue to train people to be effective in known territories – but the current competitive environment is unstable. How can we prepare to live in unstable contexts? How can we prepare to be effective if the conventional management models are collapsing?
GLOBAL CONFERENCE ON BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS, GLOBE 2018Dmytro Shestakov
Strategic Flexibility as a Key to Innovativeness: Theoretical Framework, Globe 2018, 120-131
Dmytro Shestakov
The article reveals the main strategic changes of the competitive environment, the necessity of flexibility in the new competitive conditions are determined. Flexibility in its various forms has
long played an important role in the organizational change and strategy literature. The theoretical approaches to the definition of the concept of "flexibility", "strategy", "strategic flexibility" are
revealed. Various kinds of flexibility of the company and levels of strategic flexibility are reviewed. With the changed dynamics in the new competitive landscape, firms face multiple discontinuities that often occur simultaneously and are not easily predicted. The article substantiates that managers and government policy makers are encountering major strategic discontinuities that are changing the nature of competition. Firms must be flexible to manage discontinuities and unpredictable change in their environments. Flexibility has been a characteristic of an organization that makes companies less vulnerable to unforeseen external changes or puts it in a better position to respond successfully to change. Strategic flexibility may increase innovation performance of a firm.
Advances In Global
Business And Economics
Proceedings of the GLOBE Conference
in Sarasota, USA, June 4-8, 2018
Editor
Dr. Cihan Cobanoglu
M3 Center
University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee
USA
Notes for mba (strategic management) unit isnselvaraj
This document provides an overview of strategic management concepts and processes. It discusses:
1) The conceptual framework of strategic management, including how it has evolved from long-range planning to address rapid changes in business environments.
2) Key elements of strategic management like vision, mission, objectives, and the roles of top management in providing direction.
3) The strategic management process including analyzing internal/external environments, strategic choice, implementation involving structure and control, and feedback.
4) Examples are given to illustrate how organizations strategize to adapt to their environments through expansion, divestment, stability and other decisions.
Analysis of levers of control in a slovenian companykesavneupane
This document provides an analysis of management control systems (MCS) using Simons' framework of four levers of control. It examines MCS in a Slovenian manufacturing company called Trimo over 1992-2004. The four levers are diagnostic control systems that monitor performance, interactive control systems that involve managers in decisions, beliefs systems that inspire new opportunities, and boundary systems that set limits. The study aims to understand how Trimo deployed MCS according to these levers and how it used them. It finds that considering a wider range of formal and informal controls provides a more comprehensive analysis than prior contingency studies.
1. The document discusses managing organizational change and defines planned change as changes that are purposeful and aimed at keeping an organization viable.
2. Structural changes involve altering authority patterns, information access, rewards allocation, technology, and other structural elements.
3. Organizations face change through opportunities they want to pursue or problems they need to address, which can include changes in objectives, acquisitions, labor shortages, or unionization.
The document discusses organizational analysis and strategy. It begins by explaining that organizational analysis is the process of reviewing an organization's external and internal environment. It should be done periodically to understand strengths and weaknesses. Various models of analysis are described, including SWOT, McKinsey 7S, and rational models. Strategic management processes involve environmental scanning, strategy formulation, implementation, and evaluation. An example is provided of how Nokia analyzed its environment using various forces and realigned its culture and structure to its technological environment to achieve strategic success.
This document discusses a study on changes in board characteristics before and after the 2007-2008 financial crisis.
The study finds that average board size increased marginally after the crisis, rising from 9.66 members before to 9.8 members after. This suggests shareholders attempted to gain more control by increasing board influence. The study also found boards had more financial expertise after the crisis.
The document then examines the relationship between pre-crisis board size and firm performance during the crisis. It uses Tobin's Q and return on assets to measure performance for 2007-2008. This will help determine if larger or smaller boards beforehand correlated with better financial outcomes when the crisis hit.
Review of hrm, vol. 2, april 2013 35 proceedings of ssusere73ce3
This document summarizes a research paper on the effects of organizational change on employee motivation, adjustment, and values. The research studied 50 employees who experienced a major organizational change. It found that employees tried to maintain moderate motivation levels after the change and make adjustments to cope with new roles. Their values shifted from achievement to survival values to maintain their position in the organization. The document also provides background on types of organizational change, including planned vs emergent, episodic vs continuous, and developmental vs transformational change. It discusses systems thinking approaches to change and common areas of change like structure, costs, processes, and culture. Finally, it outlines two approaches to change - Theory E which prioritizes short-term economic goals, and Theory
The document discusses different types of organizational structures, focusing on adhocracies. It describes the matrix structure, noting that it adds flexibility to the bureaucracy form. The document outlines when a matrix is appropriate to use and discusses two types: temporary and permanent matrices. It also discusses Theory Z organizations, the collateral form, network structures, and other examples of adhocracies like task forces, committees, and the collegial form.
The Star ModelTM is a framework for organization design consisting of 5 categories: strategy, structure, processes, rewards, and people. It asserts that an organization's design should align all policies across these categories to achieve its strategic goals. The categories are interconnected like points on a star, and a change in one requires changes in the others. The model provides a holistic approach to organization design beyond just structure.
The document is a 23-page thesis on strategy formulation in multinational corporations deciding on expansions. It includes an abstract, keywords, introduction, literature review on strategic management and multinational corporations, and outlines the research methodology and conclusion. The literature review discusses definitions of strategic management and the strategic management process, including analysis, formulation, implementation, and evaluation. It also examines models of strategy formulation and discusses factors that influence multinational corporations' decisions to expand internationally such as access to new markets, resources, and avoiding trade barriers.
Strategy is creating fit among a company’s activities. The success of a strategy depends on doing many things well – not just a few. The things that are done well must operate within a close-knit system,. If there is not fit among these activities, there is no distinctive strategy and little to sustain the strategic deployment process. Management then reverts to the simpler task of overseeing independent functions. When this occurs, operational effectiveness determines the relative performance of the organizations and the strategic initiatives are lost.
This document discusses how an organization's control system, using Simons' levers of control framework, can increase corporate social performance. The control system includes belief systems, boundary systems, diagnostic control systems, and interactive control systems. When used appropriately, the levers of control can improve employee socialization and support an organizational culture that promotes behaviors aligned with social and environmental goals, thereby increasing corporate social performance alongside corporate financial performance.
Dr. Fred C. Lunenburg 1]. organizational development implementing planned cha...William Kritsonis
Dr. Fred C. Lunenburg, www.nationalforum.com, Dr. William Allan Kritsonis, Editor-in-Chief, National FORUM Journals, Houston, Texas
www.nationalforum.com - Over 5,000 professors published since 1983.
The document discusses organizational decline and identity. It proposes a 5R model for organizational turnaround during decline. The model involves five social processes related to organizational identity: retiring attributes adverse to recovery; reclaiming forgotten attributes vital to recovery; reaffirming active attributes vital for recovery; regenerating atrophied but important attributes; and reimagining the identity for new opportunities. These processes help align organizational identity with what is needed for success during decline.
Strategic Information Management Principleskmortens
The document discusses strategic information management as a framework for privacy and security safeguards. It defines strategic, information, and management. It describes how strategic information management views information as an enterprise asset and takes a risk minimization approach. It discusses applying total quality management concepts from W. Edwards Deming, including adopting Deming's 14 principles for management. The principles focus on continual improvement, training, removing barriers, and transforming information management.
Crisis management is critical for organizations and involves three phases: pre-crisis preparation, crisis response, and post-crisis evaluation. Effective pre-crisis preparation includes having a crisis management plan, team, and spokesperson training. The plan should outline contact information, tasks, and pre-drafted messages. The crisis team manages the response and includes roles like PR, legal, and operations. Spokesperson training advises on media relations best practices. Overall, preparation helps organizations respond faster and minimize negative impacts during a crisis.
This document provides an overview of crisis communication theory and strategies. It defines an organizational crisis and outlines common causes such as misunderstandings, misjudgment, and human error. It introduces Situational Crisis Communication Theory, which examines crisis response strategies based on the level of reputational threat. Crises are classified into victim, accidental, and intentional clusters depending on the attribution of responsibility. Response strategies like deny, diminish, and rebuild are recommended based on the crisis type. The document concludes by noting strategies like bolstering can supplement primary crisis responses to manage reputation during a crisis.
The document discusses organizational resilience and provides definitions from various standards organizations. It notes that organizational resilience means the ability to anticipate, prepare for, respond to, and adapt to changes and disruptions. Developing organizational resilience requires taking a strategic approach that integrates existing risk management, business continuity planning, and other disciplines. It also requires understanding internal operations as well as external dependencies and factors. Building resilience is an ongoing process rather than a single activity, and involves continually assessing vulnerabilities and improving adaptive capacity.
Organizational Conflicts Management In Selected Organizaions In Lagos State, ...iosrjce
IOSR Journal of Business and Management (IOSR-JBM) is a double blind peer reviewed International Journal that provides rapid publication (within a month) of articles in all areas of business and managemant and its applications. The journal welcomes publications of high quality papers on theoretical developments and practical applications inbusiness and management. Original research papers, state-of-the-art reviews, and high quality technical notes are invited for publications.
Ch11 - Organisation theory design and change gareth jonesAnkit Kesri
The document discusses the organizational life cycle, which includes four main stages: birth, growth, decline, and death. It describes several models that explain how organizations progress through these stages and the typical challenges organizations face at each phase. For example, organizational birth involves founding a new organization and overcoming the liability of newness. The population ecology model views organizational birthrates over time as influenced by environmental factors. Organizational growth involves developing skills to acquire more resources but can lead to isomorphism. Decline results from inability to adapt to changes and may occur through several stages from unrecognized problems to crisis and dissolution.
The document discusses five common organizational structures: simple structure, machine bureaucracy, professional bureaucracy, divisional structure, and adhocracy. Each structure is defined based on characteristics like specialization, formalization, centralization, and environmental factors. Strengths and weaknesses of each structure are provided to help determine when each is best suited for an organization. The structures range from more mechanistic and standardized forms like machine bureaucracy to more organic and flexible forms like adhocracy.
We have been educated for stability – and we continue to train people to be effective in known territories – but the current competitive environment is unstable. How can we prepare to live in unstable contexts? How can we prepare to be effective if the conventional management models are collapsing?
GLOBAL CONFERENCE ON BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS, GLOBE 2018Dmytro Shestakov
Strategic Flexibility as a Key to Innovativeness: Theoretical Framework, Globe 2018, 120-131
Dmytro Shestakov
The article reveals the main strategic changes of the competitive environment, the necessity of flexibility in the new competitive conditions are determined. Flexibility in its various forms has
long played an important role in the organizational change and strategy literature. The theoretical approaches to the definition of the concept of "flexibility", "strategy", "strategic flexibility" are
revealed. Various kinds of flexibility of the company and levels of strategic flexibility are reviewed. With the changed dynamics in the new competitive landscape, firms face multiple discontinuities that often occur simultaneously and are not easily predicted. The article substantiates that managers and government policy makers are encountering major strategic discontinuities that are changing the nature of competition. Firms must be flexible to manage discontinuities and unpredictable change in their environments. Flexibility has been a characteristic of an organization that makes companies less vulnerable to unforeseen external changes or puts it in a better position to respond successfully to change. Strategic flexibility may increase innovation performance of a firm.
Advances In Global
Business And Economics
Proceedings of the GLOBE Conference
in Sarasota, USA, June 4-8, 2018
Editor
Dr. Cihan Cobanoglu
M3 Center
University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee
USA
Notes for mba (strategic management) unit isnselvaraj
This document provides an overview of strategic management concepts and processes. It discusses:
1) The conceptual framework of strategic management, including how it has evolved from long-range planning to address rapid changes in business environments.
2) Key elements of strategic management like vision, mission, objectives, and the roles of top management in providing direction.
3) The strategic management process including analyzing internal/external environments, strategic choice, implementation involving structure and control, and feedback.
4) Examples are given to illustrate how organizations strategize to adapt to their environments through expansion, divestment, stability and other decisions.
Analysis of levers of control in a slovenian companykesavneupane
This document provides an analysis of management control systems (MCS) using Simons' framework of four levers of control. It examines MCS in a Slovenian manufacturing company called Trimo over 1992-2004. The four levers are diagnostic control systems that monitor performance, interactive control systems that involve managers in decisions, beliefs systems that inspire new opportunities, and boundary systems that set limits. The study aims to understand how Trimo deployed MCS according to these levers and how it used them. It finds that considering a wider range of formal and informal controls provides a more comprehensive analysis than prior contingency studies.
1. The document discusses managing organizational change and defines planned change as changes that are purposeful and aimed at keeping an organization viable.
2. Structural changes involve altering authority patterns, information access, rewards allocation, technology, and other structural elements.
3. Organizations face change through opportunities they want to pursue or problems they need to address, which can include changes in objectives, acquisitions, labor shortages, or unionization.
The document discusses organizational analysis and strategy. It begins by explaining that organizational analysis is the process of reviewing an organization's external and internal environment. It should be done periodically to understand strengths and weaknesses. Various models of analysis are described, including SWOT, McKinsey 7S, and rational models. Strategic management processes involve environmental scanning, strategy formulation, implementation, and evaluation. An example is provided of how Nokia analyzed its environment using various forces and realigned its culture and structure to its technological environment to achieve strategic success.
This document discusses a study on changes in board characteristics before and after the 2007-2008 financial crisis.
The study finds that average board size increased marginally after the crisis, rising from 9.66 members before to 9.8 members after. This suggests shareholders attempted to gain more control by increasing board influence. The study also found boards had more financial expertise after the crisis.
The document then examines the relationship between pre-crisis board size and firm performance during the crisis. It uses Tobin's Q and return on assets to measure performance for 2007-2008. This will help determine if larger or smaller boards beforehand correlated with better financial outcomes when the crisis hit.
Review of hrm, vol. 2, april 2013 35 proceedings of ssusere73ce3
This document summarizes a research paper on the effects of organizational change on employee motivation, adjustment, and values. The research studied 50 employees who experienced a major organizational change. It found that employees tried to maintain moderate motivation levels after the change and make adjustments to cope with new roles. Their values shifted from achievement to survival values to maintain their position in the organization. The document also provides background on types of organizational change, including planned vs emergent, episodic vs continuous, and developmental vs transformational change. It discusses systems thinking approaches to change and common areas of change like structure, costs, processes, and culture. Finally, it outlines two approaches to change - Theory E which prioritizes short-term economic goals, and Theory
The document discusses different types of organizational structures, focusing on adhocracies. It describes the matrix structure, noting that it adds flexibility to the bureaucracy form. The document outlines when a matrix is appropriate to use and discusses two types: temporary and permanent matrices. It also discusses Theory Z organizations, the collateral form, network structures, and other examples of adhocracies like task forces, committees, and the collegial form.
The Star ModelTM is a framework for organization design consisting of 5 categories: strategy, structure, processes, rewards, and people. It asserts that an organization's design should align all policies across these categories to achieve its strategic goals. The categories are interconnected like points on a star, and a change in one requires changes in the others. The model provides a holistic approach to organization design beyond just structure.
The document is a 23-page thesis on strategy formulation in multinational corporations deciding on expansions. It includes an abstract, keywords, introduction, literature review on strategic management and multinational corporations, and outlines the research methodology and conclusion. The literature review discusses definitions of strategic management and the strategic management process, including analysis, formulation, implementation, and evaluation. It also examines models of strategy formulation and discusses factors that influence multinational corporations' decisions to expand internationally such as access to new markets, resources, and avoiding trade barriers.
Strategy is creating fit among a company’s activities. The success of a strategy depends on doing many things well – not just a few. The things that are done well must operate within a close-knit system,. If there is not fit among these activities, there is no distinctive strategy and little to sustain the strategic deployment process. Management then reverts to the simpler task of overseeing independent functions. When this occurs, operational effectiveness determines the relative performance of the organizations and the strategic initiatives are lost.
This document discusses how an organization's control system, using Simons' levers of control framework, can increase corporate social performance. The control system includes belief systems, boundary systems, diagnostic control systems, and interactive control systems. When used appropriately, the levers of control can improve employee socialization and support an organizational culture that promotes behaviors aligned with social and environmental goals, thereby increasing corporate social performance alongside corporate financial performance.
Dr. Fred C. Lunenburg 1]. organizational development implementing planned cha...William Kritsonis
Dr. Fred C. Lunenburg, www.nationalforum.com, Dr. William Allan Kritsonis, Editor-in-Chief, National FORUM Journals, Houston, Texas
www.nationalforum.com - Over 5,000 professors published since 1983.
The document discusses organizational decline and identity. It proposes a 5R model for organizational turnaround during decline. The model involves five social processes related to organizational identity: retiring attributes adverse to recovery; reclaiming forgotten attributes vital to recovery; reaffirming active attributes vital for recovery; regenerating atrophied but important attributes; and reimagining the identity for new opportunities. These processes help align organizational identity with what is needed for success during decline.
Strategic Information Management Principleskmortens
The document discusses strategic information management as a framework for privacy and security safeguards. It defines strategic, information, and management. It describes how strategic information management views information as an enterprise asset and takes a risk minimization approach. It discusses applying total quality management concepts from W. Edwards Deming, including adopting Deming's 14 principles for management. The principles focus on continual improvement, training, removing barriers, and transforming information management.
Crisis management is critical for organizations and involves three phases: pre-crisis preparation, crisis response, and post-crisis evaluation. Effective pre-crisis preparation includes having a crisis management plan, team, and spokesperson training. The plan should outline contact information, tasks, and pre-drafted messages. The crisis team manages the response and includes roles like PR, legal, and operations. Spokesperson training advises on media relations best practices. Overall, preparation helps organizations respond faster and minimize negative impacts during a crisis.
This document provides an overview of crisis communication theory and strategies. It defines an organizational crisis and outlines common causes such as misunderstandings, misjudgment, and human error. It introduces Situational Crisis Communication Theory, which examines crisis response strategies based on the level of reputational threat. Crises are classified into victim, accidental, and intentional clusters depending on the attribution of responsibility. Response strategies like deny, diminish, and rebuild are recommended based on the crisis type. The document concludes by noting strategies like bolstering can supplement primary crisis responses to manage reputation during a crisis.
The document discusses organizational resilience and provides definitions from various standards organizations. It notes that organizational resilience means the ability to anticipate, prepare for, respond to, and adapt to changes and disruptions. Developing organizational resilience requires taking a strategic approach that integrates existing risk management, business continuity planning, and other disciplines. It also requires understanding internal operations as well as external dependencies and factors. Building resilience is an ongoing process rather than a single activity, and involves continually assessing vulnerabilities and improving adaptive capacity.
Organizational Conflicts Management In Selected Organizaions In Lagos State, ...iosrjce
IOSR Journal of Business and Management (IOSR-JBM) is a double blind peer reviewed International Journal that provides rapid publication (within a month) of articles in all areas of business and managemant and its applications. The journal welcomes publications of high quality papers on theoretical developments and practical applications inbusiness and management. Original research papers, state-of-the-art reviews, and high quality technical notes are invited for publications.
This document provides a biography of Dr. Steven Deck, who has over 25 years of experience in risk management. It then summarizes his book on enterprise risk management (ERM), which draws on evidence from his doctoral research to provide theoretical understanding and practical guidance on adopting ERM. The book is aimed at organizational leaders and risk managers seeking to implement ERM. It uses case studies of higher education but the findings apply to complex organizations generally.
Running Head ERM 1ERM 10Research Paper Draf.docxjeanettehully
Running Head: ERM 1
ERM 10
Research Paper Draft
ITS835 – Enterprise Risk Management
Dr. Jerry Alsay
University of the Cumberlands
Introduction
Risk can be explained as a combination of diverse things or activities that a person, a group or organization is doing knowing that they might experience hardships and have knowledge on what they expect but do it anyway since there is a possibility of success. Risk management is a process that assist the organizations to comprehend what are the risk they are anticipating, who might experience the risk, what are the possible control for the risk and making a conclusion on whether these control are adequate or are they not adequate.
Enterprise risk management is explained as the process of organizing, planning, controlling and leading the actions of an enterprise for them to reduce the impacts of risks on the enterprise earnings and capital. The enterprise risk management comprises of strategic, operational and financial risk connected to the accidental losses. Recently, there have been external factors that has encouraged organizations to implement the use of ERM. Government regulatory and industries have started scrutinizing organizations risk management procedures and policies and a rising number of industries, BOD are needed to evaluate and report the relevance of risk management processes in the companies they facilitate.
Organizations might gain by transforming the corporate culture to focus more on overall risk minimization from the aim of meeting IT obligations. Most of the organizations have discovered that ERM has the ability to offer new competitive advantage which has made most organizations to implement ERM. ERM is one of the major achievement that most of the organizations are striving to implement. This paper will focus on discussing the background understanding of ERM, the advantages of ERM and the implementation of ERM in organizations.
Background
There exist diverse ways in which most organization respond to hazards and some doubt the utilization of ERM. However, there are some organization that currently understand the importance of implementing ERM to their organizations. Just like other transformation processes happening inside an organizations, ERM offers an opportunity for the financial and management accounting professional to change how they are viewed by other companies (Waseem et al., 2017). Through becoming a strategic partner with the ERM adoption, the company can see the “bean sprouters” of the new administrative initiative other than just “bean counters.” When organizations implement ERM they can transform from just being the custodians and historians of accounts to becoming futuristic thinkers. Organizations can transform and become couches as well as players in the new management initiative necessary to the future of the company well-being.
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ITS835 – Enterprise Risk Management
Dr. Jerry Alsay
University of the Cumberlands
Introduction
Risk can be explained as a combination of diverse things or activities that a person, a group or organization is doing knowing that they might experience hardships and have knowledge on what they expect but do it anyway since there is a possibility of success. Risk management is a process that assist the organizations to comprehend what are the risk they are anticipating, who might experience the risk, what are the possible control for the risk and making a conclusion on whether these control are adequate or are they not adequate.
Enterprise risk management is explained as the process of organizing, planning, controlling and leading the actions of an enterprise for them to reduce the impacts of risks on the enterprise earnings and capital. The enterprise risk management comprises of strategic, operational and financial risk connected to the accidental losses. Recently, there have been external factors that has encouraged organizations to implement the use of ERM. Government regulatory and industries have started scrutinizing organizations risk management procedures and policies and a rising number of industries, BOD are needed to evaluate and report the relevance of risk management processes in the companies they facilitate.
Organizations might gain by transforming the corporate culture to focus more on overall risk minimization from the aim of meeting IT obligations. Most of the organizations have discovered that ERM has the ability to offer new competitive advantage which has made most organizations to implement ERM. ERM is one of the major achievement that most of the organizations are striving to implement. This paper will focus on discussing the background understanding of ERM, the advantages of ERM and the implementation of ERM in organizations.
Background
There exist diverse ways in which most organization respond to hazards and some doubt the utilization of ERM. However, there are some organization that currently understand the importance of implementing ERM to their organizations. Just like other transformation processes happening inside an organizations, ERM offers an opportunity for the financial and management accounting professional to change how they are viewed by other companies (Waseem et al., 2017). Through becoming a strategic partner with the ERM adoption, the company can see the “bean sprouters” of the new administrative initiative other than just “bean counters.” When organizations implement ERM they can transform from just being the custodians and historians of accounts to becoming futuristic thinkers. Organizations can transform and become couches as well as players in the new management initiative necessary to the future of the company well-being.
When adopting a good ERM based system inside an organization, technology participates a v.
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Crisis management strategy and its effects on organizational performance of multinational corporations in nigeria
1. European Journal of Business and Management www.iiste.org
ISSN 2222-1905 (Paper) ISSN 2222-2839 (Online)
Vol.6, No.23, 2014
Crisis Management Strategy and its Effects on Organizational
Performance of Multinational Corporations in Nigeria:
Empirical Evidence from Promassidor Ltd.
SakaRahmonOlawale
Department of Business Administration
Faculty of Management Sciences, Lagos State University, Nigeria
sakarahmon@yahoo.com
Abstract
At one time or the other, organizations would witness crisis whether internal or external in which its impact
could induce severe consequences or even disasters if wrong strategic moves are devised. The issue of how
organizations can maintain good performance when faced with critical situations has largely remained
unexplored. This study therefore examines the effect of crisis management strategy on organizational
performance of multinational corporations in Nigeria, empirical insight from Promassidor ltd. Crisis
management forms the bedrock for peaceful co-existence between employers and employees and even the
society at large. Crisis is inevitable in any organization because it comes in varied forms and degrees. In carrying
out this study a total of 321 staffs were randomly selected from a staff population of 700. Two hypotheses were
formulated to guide the study and the data collected were analyzed using partial correlation. The results revealed
that management challenges to crisis management strategy is attributed to poor organizational performance and
that crisis management strategy does not have any effect on organizational performance. Based on the findings
of the study, recommendations were made that multinational corporations in Nigeria should make funds
available for human resource development on a continuous basis, and that management of organizations should
be pro-active when it comes to issues of human resource management. Therefore, the extent to which an
organization is able to forge ahead in spite of this unavoidable constraint will depend much on the human
resource managers on whom rests the arduous task of resolving crisis.
Keywords: Cris management strategy, effect, organizations performance and MNCs.
1.0. INTRODUCTION
As an organization operating in today's society, it would at one time or the other witness instability in which the
impacts of event(s) threaten its operations, survivals or reputation. The ability of such organization to
successfully craft strategies to manage such crisis is what differentiate an organization that is able to manage
instability state of affairs from another organization that allows such horrible state to dampen its strategic
objectives (Macfarlane, 2010). Crisis management is therefore seen as the provision of an organization’s pre‐planned,
rapid response capability supported by a leadership, information management and communications
capacity in an integrated fashion to enable fast decision making at a strategic level within a structured
environment, and thereby allowing for effective recovery and protecting an organization’s survival or reputation
(Dominic Cockram, 2012). Also, It is imperative for the management to ensure that disasters do not happen or
that the impact of critical situations be minimized (Roberts, 2000). A crisis is thus a critical situation that can
have severe negative consequences to the organization (Perrow, 2004. Frequently, studies of crisis management
have become listings of rhetorical suggestions that lack both the theoretical background and the quantitative
foundation with the issue of how organizations could mitigate the impact when a crisis occurs remaining
unanswered. There is also an insufficiency of study from an open system’s perspective on how aspects of
organizational design and task environment interact and affect organizational performance in critical situations
(Pearson and Mitroff, 2003). Studies have also ranged from building mathematical models for advising corporate
organizations and government parastatals on actions in organizational politics and military crisis situations
(Havron and Blanton, 2007), and also designing training tools for managerial crisis prevention (Rolfe 2008;
Walker, 2005), and further to relying on operations research for devising logistics systems for tackling crises
(Arabmazar, 2003). While these studies have provided new insights into various issues of crisis management,
they have largely based themselves on operations research and game theory approaches, instead of
organizational theories and strategies, which, we believe, can provide a much more relevant and stronger
foundation to the field of crisis management. An attempt is made in this study to address the fundamental issue
of how organizations can maintain good performance when faced with critical situations from an open system’s
perspective of organizations (Thompson, 2007). Tackling crisis in an organization goes beyond developing a
crisis management plan, it has to do with crafting effective strategy via information, communication, peaceful
dialogue and other approach to resolving organizational crisis in order to enhance overall performance.
In any organization the impact of crisis on organizational performance cannot be overemphasized, it affects
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everything that the organization stands for. Hence, the attention of the management on crisis management in any
organization goes a long way to meet the challenges posed by need for organizational performance. Crisis and its
management by organizations and the policy makers, and its effect on organizational performance have the
attention of this work. Crisis management is aimed at creating conducive atmosphere where business can thrive
and be profitable. However, the inability of managers and other policy makers to successfully resolve crisis that
may emanate from both within an outside the organization may have negative effect on productivity level of
such organization, stagnation in operational activities, reduced proficiency, inability to meet stated targets,
decrease in sales level among others. Crisis managed with levity by an organization might lead to exile of such
organizations if appropriate strategic moves are not devised to avert the situation within the shortest time. This
study is being conducted to analyze the method of crisis management strategy on efficient usage of resources in
the organization.
1.1 RESEARCH OBJECTIVES
The broad objective of this study is to examine crisis management strategy and its effects on organizational
performance of multinational corporations in Nigeria. However, the specific objectives of the study are to:
i. Identify the crisis management strategies open to an organization
ii. Analyze the management challenges to effective crisis management strategy on performance
iii. Determine the effect of crisis management on organizational performance
1.2 RESEARCH QUESTIONS
In any business organization, management knows the significance of crisis planning in achieving organizational
goals and objectives. The research questions are:
i. What are the crisis management strategies available to an organization?
ii. What are the challenges to effective crisis management in an organization?
iii. What are the causes of crisis in an organization?
iv. What is the relationship between organizational performance and crisis management?
1.3 RESEARCH HYPOTHESES
These are statements that would be tested to determine the significance of the relationships between the variables
being tested. The hypotheses are stated in Null form.
(1) Ho: Management challenges to effective crisis management is not a function of poor performance.
(2) Ho: Crisis management strategy does not have any effects on organizational performance
2.0 LITERATURE REVIEW
2.1 Conceptual Clarifications of Crisis and Crisis Management
The word crisis means different thing to different people in different professions. The term crisis has also been
defined and conceptualized by different scholars and authorities in the field of management. Pas (2011) defined
crisis as an inherently abnormal, unstable and complex situation that represents a threat to the strategic objectives,
reputation or existence of an organization. Fink (2002) sees crisis as an abnormal situation, or even perception,
which is beyond the scope of everyday business and which threatens the operation, safety, and reputation of an
organization. Crisis is also conceptualize as an unstable time or state of affairs in which a decisive change is
impending (Seeger & Ulmer, 2003). Crisis is also defined as a specific, unexpected, and non‐routine event or
series of events that create high levels of uncertainty and threaten or are perceived to threaten an organization’s
high priority goals (Boins & Sundelius, 2005). MacFarlane (2010), Crisis is also conceptualize as a serious threat
to the basic structures or the fundamental values and norms of a system, which under time pressure and highly
uncertain circumstances necessitates making vital decisions. A change, which may be sudden or which may take
some time to evolve, that results in an urgent problem that must be addressed immediately. An event that
threatens the strategic objectives, reputation or existence of an organization (Pearson & Sommer, 2011) Crises
are events or trends that threaten the viability of the organizations within which they occur. (Coombs, 2011), see
crisis as the perception of an unpredictable event that threatens important expectancies of stakeholders and can
seriously impact an organization’s performance and generate negative outcomes.
Crisis Management is a term often used to describe the way in which an organization handles a crisis.
A paucity of definitions exists within dictionaries, policy documents, and crisis literature, and where they do
exist, those definitions provided differ vastly in focus, scope, and terminology used. The provision of an
organization’s pre‐planned, rapid response capability supported by a leadership, information management and
communications capacity in an integrated fashion to enable fast decision making at a strategic level within a
structured environment, and thereby allowing for effective recovery and protecting an organization’s survival or
reputation. Crisis management is the art of making decisions to head off or mitigate the effects of such an event,
often while the event itself is unfolding. This often means making decisions about your institution’s future while
you are under stress and while you lack key pieces of information. Consistent with the overall philosophy of this
manual, the key to being able to manage a crisis is doing as much planning as practical before a crisis starts in
order to best position you and your institution to respond to and mitigate such a situation. Crisis Management is
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the management and coordination of your institution’s responses to an incident that threatens to harm, or has
harmed, your institution’s people, structures, ability to operate, valuables and/or reputation. It takes into account
your planning and automatic incident response, but must also dynamically deal with situations as they unfold,
often in unpredictable ways.
2.1.2Types of Crisis Management
Coomb’s (1999) posited that during the crisis management process, it is important to identify types of crisis, in
that different crisis necessitate the use of different crisis management strategies. Lerbinger (1997), argues that
potential crisis are enormous, but crisis can be clustered. He later identified categories and types of crisis as:
a. Natural disaster
b. Technological crisis
c. Confrontation
d. Malevolence
e. Organizational misdeeds
f. Workplace violence
g. Rumors.
Natural crisis: Natural crisis, typically natural disasters considered as “acts of God”, are such environmental
phenomena as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tornadoes and hurricanes, floods, landslides, tsunamis, storms
and droughts that threaten life, property and the environment itself. Example is the 2004 Indian Ocean
earthquake (Tsunami).
Technological crisis: Technological crisis are caused by human application of science and technology.
Technological accident inevitably occurs when technology becomes complex and coupled and something goes
wrong in the system as a whole (technological break down). Some technological crisis occur when human error
or natural forces causes disruptions in normal routine of such technology. People tend to assign blame for
technological disaster because technology is subject to human manipulation whereas they do not hold anyone
responsible for natural disasters. When an accident creates significant environmental damage, the crisis is
categorized as mega-damage such as that that occurred in Japan (Tsunami induced technology crisis). Samples
include software failures, industrial accidents and oil spills. Examples are Chernobyl disaster, Exxon Valdez oil
spill.
Confrontation crisis: confrontation crisis occurs when discontented individuals and/or groups fight businesses,
government, and various interest groups to win acceptance of their demands and expectations. The common type
of confrontation crisis in boycotts, and other types are picketing, sit-ins ultimatums to those in authority,
blockade or occupation of buildings, and resisting or disobeying police.
Crisis of malevolence: an organization faces a crisis of malevolence when opponents or miscreants individuals
use criminal means or other extreme tactics for the purpose of expressing hostility or anger toward, or seeking
gain form a company, country or economic system, perhaps with the aim of destabilizing or destroying,
malicious rumours, terrorism and espionage. Example is the Niger Delta crisis.
Workplace violence: crisis occurs when an employee or former employee commits violence against other
employees on organizational grounds.
Rumours: false information about an organization or its products create crisis hurting the organization’s
reputation. Sample is linking the organization to radical groups or stories that their products are contaminated.
Example is the Procter and Gamble’s logo controversy.
Crisis of organizational misdeeds: crisis occurs when management takes action it knows will harm or place
stakeholders at risk for harm without adequate precautions. Lerbinger (op. cit) specified three different types of
organizational misdeeds; crisis of skewed management values, crisis of deception and crisis of management
misconduct. He posited that crisis of skewed management values are caused when managers favour short-term
economic gain and neglect broader social values, and stakeholders other than investors. This state of top sided
values is rooted in the classical business creed that focuses on the interests of stock holders and tends to view the
interest of its other stakeholders such as customers, employees and the community. Example is the Oni led
Cadbury Boardroom crisis. While crisis of deception occur when management conceals or misrepresents
information about itself and its product in its dealings with customers and others. Good example is the Daewoo
Racer crisis of 1991. On the other hand, crisis of management misconduct some of which are caused not only by
skewed values and deception, but also by deliberate amorality and illegality. Successfully defusing a crisis
requires an understanding of how to handle a crisis – before they occur. Gonzatez Herrero and Pratt found the
different phases of crisis management. There are 3 phases in any crisis management are as below:
- The diagnosis of the impending trouble or the danger signals
- Choosing appropriate turnaround strategy
- Implementation of the change process and its monitoring.
2.2 Management Crisis Planning
No corporation looks forward to facing a situation that causes significant description to their business, especially
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one that stimulates extensive media coverage. Public scrutiny can result in a negative financial, political, legal
and government impact. Crisis management planning deals with providing the best response to a crisis (Coombs;
2007).
Contingency Planning
Preparing contingency plans in advance, as part of a crisis management plan, is the first step to ensuring an
organization is appropriately prepared for a crisis. Crisis management teams rehearse a crisis plan by developing
a simulated scenario to use as a drill. The plan should clearly stipulate that the only people to speak publicly
about the crisis are the designated persons, such as the company’s spokesperson or crisis team members. The
first hours after a crisis breaks are the most crucial, so working with speed and efficiency is important, and the
plan should indicate how quickly each function should be performed. When preparing to offer a statement
externally as well as internally, information should be accurate. Providing incorrect or manipulated information
has a tendency to backfire and will greatly exacerbate the situation. The contingency plan should contain
information and guidance that will help decision makers to consider not only the short-term consequences, but
the long-term effects of every decision.
Business Continuity Planning
When a crisis will undoubtedly cause a significant disruption to an organization, a business continuity plan can
help minimize the disruption. First, one must identify the critical functions and processes that are necessary to
keep the organization running. Then each critical function and/or process must have its own contingency plan in
the event that one of the functional processes ceases or fails. Testing these contingency plans by rehearsing the
required actions in a simulation will allow for all involved to become more sensitive and aware of the possibility
of a crisis. As a result, in the event of an actual crisis, the team members will act more quickly and effectively.
2.2.1METHODS OF CRISIS MANAGEMENT
James (2007) defines organization crisis as “any emotionally charged situation that, once it becomes public,
invites negative stakeholder’s reaction and thereby has the potential to threaten the financial well being,
reputation or survival of the firm or some portion thereof”. He classified organization crisis into two primary
types:
Sudden crisis: which he identified as any circumstances that occur without warning and beyond an institutions
control. Consequently, sudden crisis are most often situations for which the institution and its leadership are not
blamed.
Smoldering crisis: he differentiated between smoldering crisis and sudden crisis in that they begin as minor
internal issues, that, due to manager’s negligence develop to crisis status. These are situations when leaders are
blamed for the crisis and its subsequent effect on the institution in question.
James categorizes five phases of crisis that require specific crisis leadership competencies. Each phase contains
an obstacle that a leader must overcome to improve the structure and operations of an organization. James case
study on crisis in the financial services sector, for example, explores why crisis events erode public trust in
leadership. James’ research demonstrates how leadership competencies of integrity, positive intent, capability,
mutual respect, and transparency impact the trust building process.
• Signal detection preparation and prevention
• Containment and damage control
• Business recovery
• Learning
Signal detection: signal detection is the stage in a crisis in which leaders should, but do not always, sense early
warning signals (red flags) that suggest the possibility of a crisis. The detection stages of a crisis include:
Sense – making: represents an attempt to create order and make sense, retrospectively, or what occurs.
Perspective taking: the ability to consider another person’s or groups point of view.
Preparation and prevention: it is during this stage that crisis handlers begin preparing for or averting the crisis
that had been foreshadowed in the signal detection stage. Organizations such as the Red Cross’s primary mission
are to prepare for and prevent the escalation of crisis events. Walmart has been described as an emergency relief
standard bearer after having witnessed the incredibly speedy and well-coordinated effort to get supplies to the
gulf coast of the United States in anticipation of Hurricane Katrina.
Containment and damage control: usually the most vivid stage, the goal of crisis containment and damage
control is to limit the reputational, financial, safety and other threats to firm’s survival. Crisis handlers’ work
diligently during this stage to bring the crisis to an end as quickly as possible to limit the negative publicity to the
organization and move into the business recovery stage.
Business recovery: when crisis hits, organizations must be able to carry on with their business in the midst of
the crisis while simultaneously planning for how they will recover from the damage the crisis has caused. Crisis
handlers not only engage in continuity planning (determining the people, financial, and technology resources
needed to keep the organization running), but will also actively pursue organizational resilience.
Learning: in the wake of a crisis, organizational decision makers adopt a learning orientation and use prior
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experiences to develop new routines and behaviours that ultimately change the way the organization operates.
The best leaders recognize this and are purposeful and skillful in finding the learning opportunities inherent in
every situation. Crisis management methods of a business or an organization are called crisis management plan.
Power (2011) identified crisis management as consist of:
• Methods used to respond to both the reality and perception of crisis.
• Establishing metrics to define what scenarios constitute a crisis and should consequently trigger the
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necessary response mechanism.
• Communication that occurs within the response phase of emergency management scenarios
The credibility and reputation of organizations is heavily influenced by the perception of their responses during
crisis situations. The organization and communication process. The related terms emergency management and
business continuity management, focus respectively on the prompt but short-lived “first aid” type of response
(e.g. putting the fire out) and the longer term recovery and restoration phases (e.g. moving operations to another
location). Crisis is also a facet of risk management, although it is probably untrue to say that crisis management
represents a failure of risk management since it will never be possible to totally instigate the chances of
catastrophes occurring.
2.2.2ROLE OF APOLOGIES IN CRISIS MANAGEMENT
There has been a debate about the role of apologies in crisis management and some argue that apology opens an
organization up for possible legal consequences. However, some evidence indicates that compensation and
sympathy, two less expensive strategies, are as effective as an apology in shaping people’s perceptions of the
organization; taking responsibility for the crisis because these strategies focus on the victim’s needs. The
sympathy response expresses concern for victims while compensation offers victims something to offset the
suffering.
2.3 THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
Crisis management is the process by which an organization deals with a major event that threatens the harm the
organization, its stakeholders, or the general public. Venette (2003) argues that “crisis is a process of
transformation where the old system can no longer be maintained”.
Seegor, Sellnow and Umer (2003) identified the three elements common to most definitions of crisis:
(a) a threat to the organization, (b) the element of surprise, and (c) a short decision time. Therefore, the fourth
defining quality is the need for change. If change is not needed, the event could more accurately be described as
a failure or incident. In contrast to risk management, which involves assessing potential threats and finding the
best ways to avoid those threats, crisis management involves dealing with threats after they have occurred. It is
discipline within the broader context of management consisting of skills and techniques required to identify,
assess, understand and cope with a serious situation, especially from the procedures start.
Crisis management is occasionally referred to as incident management; although several industry
specialists such as Power (2011) argue that the term crisis management is more accurate. He identified crisis
management theories as:
STRUCTURAL – FUNCTIONAL SYSTEMS THEORY
Providing information to an organization in a time of crisis is critical to effective crisis management. Structural-functional
systems theory addresses the intricacies of information networks and levels of command making up
organizational communication. Rancer and Womack (1997) posited that the structural – functional theory
identifies information flow in organizations as “networks” made up of members and links. Information in
organizations flow in patterns called networks.
DIFFUSION OF INNOVATION THEORY
Another theory that can be applied to the sharing of information identified by James is the diffusion of
innovation theory, developed by Everett Rogers (1962). The theory seeks to explain how, why and what rate new
ideas are spread in an organization. Diffusion is the process by which an innovation is communicated through
certain channels overtime among the members of a social system. Four key elements are involved in diffusion.
These elements are:
Innovation: Rogers defines innovation as an “idea, practice or object that is perceived as new by an individual
or other unit of adoption”
Communication channel: this is the means by which messages get from one individual to another.
Time: the innovation – decision period is the length of time required to pass through the innovation decision
process.
Social system: is a set of interrelated units that are engaged in joint problem solving to accomplish a common
goal.
Diffusion of innovation in communication occurs when an individual communicates a new idea to one or several
others. At its most elementary form, the process involves:
i. an innovation
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iii. another individual or other unit of adoption that does not yet have knowledge of the innovation and
iv. A communication channel connecting the two units. It describes how an idea or practice is disseminated
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3.0 METHODOLOGY
The study was carried out in Nigeria, using descriptive survey research design. The target population are
employees of Promassidor Nigeria Ltd in Lagos State. Lagos state was chosen because greater percentage of
multinational corporations operating in Nigeria are located in Lagos state, the industrial nerve Centre of the
country. A sample size of 321 employees formed the respondents for the study, out of 700 staffs that formed the
population of Promassidor Nigeria Ltd. Stratified and simple random sampling techniques were used to select
the respondents whereby the employees were stratified according to their designation. Questionnaires were used
to collect data which were validated through a pilot study. The questions were closed ended on a five point
Likert scale. Descriptive statistics was used to analyze data.
4.0 DATA EXHIBITION
The data was collected through questionnaires are then entered in Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS).
Data analysis and presentation started with the analysis and presentation of demographics. Findings from the
study shows the respondents distribution according to sex thus: The majority of the respondents are male with 65%
of the respondents and female forms the rest of the group. The pie chart below depicts the sex distribution.
4.1 Descriptive Statistics:
Correlations
Control Variables Crisis
management
strategy
Organizational
performance
Challenges of
crisis
Management
-none-a
Crisis management
strategy
Correlation 1.000 .805 -.617
Significance (2-tailed) . .000 .000
df 0 313 313
Organizational
performance
Correlation .805 1.000 -.218
Significance (2-tailed) .000 . .000
df 313 0 313
Challenges of crisis
Managment
Correlation -.617 -.218 1.000
Significance (2-tailed) .000 .000 .
df 313 313 0
Challenges of
crisis
Management
Crisis management
strategy
Correlation 1.000 .874
Significance (2-tailed) . .000
df 0 312
Organizational
performance
Correlation .874 1.000
Significance (2-tailed) .000 .
df 312 0
a. Cells contain zero-order (Pearson) correlations.
Partial correlation was used to explore the relationship between crisis management strategy and organization
performance, while controlling for the effect of the challenges of crisis management strategy. There was a strong,
positive, partial correlation between crisis management strategy and organization performance, while controlling
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for the effect of the challenges of crisis management strategy, r = –0.875, n = 312, p < .0005,. An inspection of
the zero order correlation (r = 0.805) suggested that controlling for challenges of crisis management strategy
had significant effect on the strength of the relationship between crisis management strategy and organization
performance. However there is a strong negative correlation between organization performance and challenges
of crisis management strategy, r=-0.617, n=312, p < .0005. Which implies that high challenges of crisis
management strategy is attributed to poor organization performance.
5.0 CONCLUSION & RECOMMENDATIONS.
Crisis management has become a defining feature of contemporary governance. In times of crisis, communities
and members of organizations expect their public leaders to minimize the impact of the crisis at hand, while
critics and bureaucratic competitors try to seize the moment to blame incumbent rulers and their policies. In
extreme environment, policy makers must somehow establish a sense of normality, and foster collective learning
from the crisis experience. In the face of crisis, leaders must deal with the strategic challenges they face, the
political risks and opportunities they encounter, the errors they make, the pitfalls they need to avoid, and the
paths away from crisis they may pursue. The necessity for management is even more significant with the advent
of a 24 hour news cycle and an increasingly internet savvy audience with ever changing technology at its finger
tips. Public leaders have a special responsibility to help safeguard society from the adverse consequences of
crisis. Experts in crisis management note to concern themselves with all crisis phases; the incubation stage, the
onset, and the aftermath. Crisis leadership then involves five critical tasks: sense making, decision making, and
meaning making, terminating and learning. Conclusively, the survival and growth of any business organization
depend on its people because a considerable proportion of the value of an organization is determined not just by
the recruitment and training policies adopted by the organization but also by the way in which the structure and
culture of the organization allow strategic human resources development. Although this task is a very difficult
one to accomplish, a first and necessary step towards a remarkable success in this area begins with a good
knowledge of what the employees need in terms of career development. This enables the organization to adapt
its capacities and capabilities to channeling all its available resources towards meeting these needs in their
various forms.
Crisis management methods of a business or in an organization are called crisis management plan. The
credibility and reputation of organizations is heavily influenced by the perception of their responses during crisis
situations. The organization and communication involved in responding to a crisis in a timely fashion makes for
a challenge in businesses. There must be open and consistent communication throughout the hierarchy to
contribute to a successful crisis communication process. The related terms emergency management and business
continuity management focus respectively on the prompt but short lined “first aid” type of response (e.g. putting
the fire out) and the longer term recovery and restoration phases (e.g. moving operations to another site). Crisis
is also a facet of risk management, although it is probably untrue to say that crisis management represents a
failure of risk management since it will never be possible to totally mitigate the chances of catastrophes
occurring.
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