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In your blog, you should address the following two sections:
(1) Section 1: list the key ideas you have extracted from the prescribed e-learning activity.
(2) Section 2: apply those ideas to your own experience, to an organisation you know and to the topic(s) of this subject.

Activity 1: Ford and Taylorism.

Questions to consider:
1. Would workers in Australia, America or Europe accept the Taylorism in this form today?

2. Consider the design of scripts for use in Call Centres, can you see Taylorism in that? Explain.

3. This ‘clip’ is showing history from 100 years ago.  Some would say that ‘the world has moved on’ and these ideas are out of date.  However, could there be parts of the world today for which these ideas might be just what they need? Explain.

Activity 2: Thomas Friedman on Globalisation; 3 Eras of Globalisation; World is flat
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lp4znWHvsjU

Questions to consider:

1.  What would be some of the key drawbacks or risks of living in the flat world of Globalisation 3.0 as Friedman describes it?
2.  Do you agree with Friedman’s iron rule of the flat world? Explain.
3.  Is the level of globalisation uniform across the world? Explain.

Activity 3: ‘The myth of national culture’ – Counter argument to Hofstede’s work by Professor Brendan McSweeney at Royal Holloway, University of London

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_l84Dj2eXY

Questions to consider:

1. Do you agree with Professor McSweeney’s view on national cultures? Why or why not? After viewing the survey result done by Hofstede on your home country, who do you think offers a more compelling argument on national cultures? Can a single culture be used to determine the actions of entire population?

Activity 4: Corporate culture and strategy

URL: ‘Culture clash: When corporate culture fights strategy, it can cost you’  http://knowledge.wpcarey.asu.edu/article.cfm?aid=31

Questions to consider:

1. Can you think of any examples where you experienced various culture types (Market, Clan, Adhocracy and Hierarchy culture) as a consumer to, or employee of, an organisation?
2. If so, what is your evaluation of the alignment between its corporate culture and strategy?

Activity 5: Toyota’s corporate culture and the problem of spreading its culture 

URL: ‘MIT’s Steven Spear Discusses Toyota’s Corporate Culture’ (Interview on Bloomberg TV) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCaKFPjfG7s

Question to consider:

1. How would you describe Toyota's culture using the seven dimensions of organisational culture and/ or the Cultural Web?

Activity 6: Structure and strategy

URL: BCG’s Yves Morieux view on Organisation Designx http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm7d1dzOKmw

Questions to consider:

1. Yves Morieux claims that structure follows strategy. Is this always the case?

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