Organizational Behavior and Organizational Design II
*Notes on “Organizational Behavior and Organizational Design” lectures, taught by Prof. dr hab. Piotr Płoszajski, Warsaw School of Economics. First part here.*
In the past: The big eats the small.
Nowadays: The fast eats the slow.The environment is changing extremely fast, but do we change with the same speed? Or better, should we? (or we should give it some time- new ideas/ theories are usually not successful from the very beginning)
Now people have more time to learn (increased life expectancy)
How to overcome the resistance of change?
Adaptivity: ability to forget things
There are different levels of leadership- it`s not always what to do; it could be- where to start from.
Middle managements will be no longer needed
New Economy: starts with technology and end with trust
Self correcting power as result of higher level of communication
“Swarm” design
/ The response of 10000 fishes at a change in the environment is two times less than the time of a single fish response /
Intelligent control appears as un-control or freedom
Un-intelligent control appears as external domination. (Lao Tzu)If something becomes obvious to us, we don`t questioning it anymore. It becomes invisible, we stop thinking of it.
We should change the cognitive assumptions, not only the knowledge.
Are human-beings rational? (only to a certain extent )
If smth out from the things we have used to believed happens to not be true, that means that probably today we also believe in smth that`s not true, but we just don`t know it yet.
Two major approaches to behaviour change- external (changing the person’s mind) and internal (affecting the surrounding environment).
Lewin’s freeze phases- here and here. (the first result I found in the web)
Emotional= stop being rational.
Management creativity and imagination consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought
There won`t be a third part, because today was our last lecture. That was for sure one of the best courses I have had for 3 years in the university 
If emotional=emotionally intelligent then emotional is being successful.
nin
June 12, 2008 at 5:52 am
Totally agree and actually your way sounds better
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* even though probably in some cases stop being rational could be equal to being emotionally intelligent… *
apieceofme
June 12, 2008 at 10:09 am
We should change the cognitive assumptions, not only the knowledge.
If this is the philosophy, i am glad to call myself a true believer. In fact the knowledge is assumed not only by “how it comes” but also by “how it fits”. This should mean, that same principles, attitudes and dispositions, which define the human behavior in organizational field are highest navigator of collective success; when they are resembled by most of the organization team in order of control being direct to the organizational goals.
GrooveRider
August 1, 2008 at 9:45 pm