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Annotated Bibliography

Shawn Harden

Southern Wesleyan University

July 19, 2017

Article 1

According to the article “Too Much of a Good Thing,” intellectual roots of organizational and management theory involves the Japanese leaders approach to quality improvement. The topic is related to organizational behavior in that it discusses quality and its compatibility with innovation. Innovation is a subtopic in human behavior in the workplace and its impact on the company. This topic makes a difference in management in that it discusses how organizations can properly manage quality improvement activities and thus achieve innovations. This article discusses strategy methods such as the waterfall methodology, which makes employees especially programmers more productive. Strategy formulation involves activities geared at creating a particular strategy such as the waterfall strategy. Strategy implementation involves using the formulated strategy to achieve results. Management can change significantly by responding to radical innovation.

Article 2

According to the second article “Rebuilding companies as communities,” the intellectual roots of organizational and management theories are based on the concept of making companies a place where employees can engage and are committed to one another. The topic is related to organizational behavior in that it discusses the idea of organizational culture and employee’s attitude towards building companies as communities. The topic contributes to management in that it suggests the kind of leadership that would best work for this kind of an organization suggesting that distributed and engaged leadership would be effective. The article suggests community-ship as a strategy of improving modern age organizations. According to this article, management can improve through leadership activities such as the creation of a work atmosphere that promotes trust.

Article 3

According to the third article, “Making management matter” the roots of organizational and management involve leadership and must struggle to be rigorous and interdisciplinary. The topic is related to organizational behavior in that it talks about leadership, which is a subtopic or organizational behavior and influencing employee’s behavior and attitude towards an achievement. The topic adds to management by arguing that a major requirement of management research need to be rooted in practical issues and finding the right balance between interdisciplinary research and drawing from diverse disciplines. A good strategy in business, especially for a leader, is to have a sense of where the company wants to achieve and working with the team to make things happen. Management can improve through the research that draws from academic disciplines to allow managers to comprehend the content of detailed issue they are handling.

Article 4

In the fourth article, “It’s all about me” the authors suggest that intellectual roots of organizational and management theories include preferences, dispositions, experiences of top management teams, of leaders into their decision and behaviors. This topic is related to organizational behavior in that it talks about emotions in the work place particularly among the leaders and its influence on company strategy and performance. The topic contributes to management in that it talks about how the strategic behavior of the top management teams affects strategic performance and behavior. Some of the different views of the strategy include the defender strategy, and exploitation strategy normally exemplified by less narcissistic CEOs. Management can improve through improved executive choices in staffing, structure, and strategy. Narcissism in the executive suite can be anticipated to have influence on substantive organizational outcome potentially including submissive top management teams and substantive organizational outcomes

References

Augier, M. (2006). Making management matter: An interview with John Reed. Academy of Management Learning & Education, 5(1), 84-100.

Chatterjee, A., & Hambrick, D. C. (2007). It's all about me: Narcissistic chief executive officers and their effects on company strategy and performance. Administrative science quarterly, 52(3), 351-386.

Cole, R. E., & Matsumiya, T. (2007). Too much of a good thing? Quality as an impediment to innovation. California Management Review, 50(1), 77-93.

Mintzberg, H. (2009). Rebuilding companies as communities. Harvard business review, 87(7/8), 140-143.