paradigm
(noun)
A system of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality.
Examples of paradigm in the following topics:
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The Inclusive Workplace
- The following paradigms are a result of extensive academic research by experts in diversity.
- Resistance paradigm: In this phase, there is a natural cultural resistance to change and equity across diverse groups.
- Discrimination-and-fairness paradigm: In this phase, the organization focuses simply on adherence to social and legal expectations.
- Access-and-legitimacy paradigm: At this phase, management has successfully elevated the culture from acceptance to active inclusion.
- Learning-and-effectiveness paradigm: In this final stage, management has successfully integrated inclusion in a way that is proactive and learning-based.
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McClelland's Need Theory
- David McClelland describes three central motivational paradigms: achievement, affiliation and power.
- An individual's balance of these needs forms a kind of profile that can be useful in determining a motivational paradigm for them.
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Understanding Culture Shock
- In more severe cases, this is also when individuals tend to feel lonely, detached, isolated or distanced from social paradigms and networks.
- Mastery Phase - The individual feels as if they are near-native in the new cultural paradigm, drastically minimizing culture-based frustrations, miss-communications and anxiety.
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Building Organizational Culture
- The paradigm: Management determines both the mission and vision of the organization and sets a groundwork for the values that employees are expected to align with.
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Types of Innovation
- Walmart succeeded thanks to process efficiency enabled via innovative operational paradigms and distribution strategies.
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Internal and External
- Because systems are interdependent, it makes sense that an entire set of processes within an operational paradigm can be made vulnerable to failure by a single process that is struggling.
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Functional vs. General Management
- .), the critical difference is that a functional manager often "zooms in" to one particular aspect of a broader operational paradigm.
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The Importance of Organizational Diversity
- Innovative thinking inherently requires individuals to go outside of the normal paradigms of operation, utilizing diverse perspectives to craft new and unique conclusions.
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Inside and Outside Forces for Organizational Change
- Migrating from one volume to another can financially challenging, and change strategies such as creating new affordable product lines or more efficient operational paradigms are key to changing for success.
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Defining Organizational Culture
- Johnson underlines the paradigm, control system, organizational structure, power structure, symbols, stories, and myths as central determinants of what a given organizational culture stands for.