Browsing by Subject "Organizational behavior."

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A case study: depicting out the role and perception of "title" in organizations
(1995) Sağlam, Berrin
The basic aim of this study is to understand what “title” means for an employee and the degree to which it serves as a motivator. In the hierarchical organizational structures that are common in Turkey, we are faced with “title inflation”, that is, giving a higher title to employees became the primary tool in motivating them. This is also one of the easiest way to motivate employees for the executives or owners of companies in terms of being not costly. In addition to this, it serves as a means for gaining status and prestige in the eyes of other people which is very satisfying. If the cultural assumptions that people share in common also supports the view that “you are worth what your title is”, than the value of moving one ladder up in the hierarchy increases dramatically. How the concept of title will cease to exist eventually is the main question that is searched an answer for. The study is conducted in three banks, in one of which there are no titles defined but employees only have job descriptions instead. Among all three banks’ employees, having a higher title is desired strongly and title is associated with prestige/status, authority, recognition, and power. The three most preferred alternatives to title are performance based pay increase, extra training and to be involved in decision making.
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Competitive rivalry without provoking retaliation: a case on Turkish medical imaging market
(1995) Kutluay, Kunter
Competition is the core concept in non-monopolistic markets for a firm’s survival. Competitive strategy is an area of primary concern to managers, depending critically on a subtle understanding of industries and competitors. Action and response characteristics of competitors have been an area of interest suggesting frameworks for further research. This study aims to implement the previous frameworks to the Turkish Medical Imaging Market, to verify the characteristics specific to this market. Basically it seeks to identify the attack behavior that elicits or averts retalitionary responses.
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The 'converge' vs, 'fragmentation' dilemma in metaphoric analysis of organizations
(1996) Keskin, Ayşe Müjde
Eight different organizational studies were performed on ANFA, Ankara Fair Limited Company through the lenses of Morgan’s( 1986) metaphors in 1993 before the municipality elections that changed the political party in charge of the municipality. These eight organizational studies were done through eight different metaphors which were introduced in Gareth Morgan’s book, “Images of Organizations”. These were Organizations As ‘Machines’, ‘Organisms’, ‘Brain’, ‘Culture’, ‘Political Systems’, ‘Psychic Prisons’, ‘Flux & Transformation’ and ‘Instruments of Domination’. The metaphoric organizational analysis are considered part of the postmodern approach. According to this approach, the organizational analysis should be able to find the ‘instabilities’ of the ‘formal’ reality of the organization to uncover the ‘difference’ -- multi-dimensions of the organizational reality . The eight metaphoric studies were designed as an experiment. The purpose of this study to test this postmodern proposition of a multifaceted representational reality.
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A cross sectional analysis of human resource management efforts in Turkey in production sector
(1996) Işıkdemir, Çiğdem
In the 1990s, globalization, internationalization and competition has gained an increasing significance in terms of corporate strategy. The organizational enviroment is involved in a rapid, constant change. Human resource management (HRM), is the critical tool for adapting to this ever changing environment. It could become a perfect strategic point of view when it is utilized efficiently. At the macro level this study analyses the extent of HRM efforts in Turkey in the production sector by replicating the 1992 Price Waterhouse international survey of HRM practices and strategies in Europe. At the micro level significant differences among the large and medium-small scale organizations in their attempts to manage human resources in their organizations in 1996 are investigated. The study seeks to ascertain any changes in HRM practices in Turkey during the four years since Price Waterhouse Survey in 1992, and attempts to evaluate any significant changes within four years ( 1992-1996). Finally, the results of this survey of HR practices in Turkey are compared with the European-wide results of Price Waterhouse survey.
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Diagnosing organizational culture
(1997) Karalar, Canan
In today’s dynamic business environment concepts like organizational development, restructuring, and change management has become the most popular subjects. Although it has begun to loose some of its popularity, organizational culture is the basis for all these concepts. Since organizational culture is a concept that can hardly be defined and agreed upon, this study examines the different approaches to the definition and the different approaches on how to diagnose organizational culture. The four dimensional culture model; questionnaire developed by Harrison and Strokes is explained and applied to three companies operating in different sectors in order to obtain a general understanding of their existing and preferred culture orientations. The results indicate that the questionnaire is a valid tool to begin discussions on organizational culture. This study can be taken as the first step of a larger culture change project since it analyzes the differences between the existing and preferred culture orientations.
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The dilemma of developing an industry code of conduct in a medium of widespread corruption
(1996) Ateş, Özgür
This study analyzes the relations between suppliers and the buyers (decision makers) in the health care products in Turkey. The analysis of the study showed that to establish a code of conduct in the industry, is practically impossible at the moment due to the lack of favorable conditions, basically the corruptive environment. This study is divided into eight parts. However the main concentration was on ten case episodes, analysis of the cases and strategies related to negotiation. Cases were developed based on the data collected through personal interviews.. The Action Research methodology was employed during the study. This method includes evaluation of agreed upon actions related to the data gathenng, information, information shanng, action planning, and lessons learned from the case studies. Also a search conference was held in in March 1995,in Antalya for three days, which is a particapatory planning method. The participants, who were 35-40 stakeholders from the health care products sector, designed the future of the sector, and the strategies to implement them. An official organization (association) called SADER (Sağlık Gereçleri Üreticileri ve Temsilcileri Derneği/ Association of Health Care Product Manufacturers and Representatives) was established to develop honest, fair and trustworthy relations between (suppliers) and the buyers. It is expected this organization will play an important role in the years ahead in achieving its main goals since SADER members control 80 percent of the market. It is also predicted that all parties namely suppliers, buyers, and the domain, involved will get mutual benefits out of this action plan. The episodes analyzed in the text will give an analytical perspective to the reader, i.e. the problems between parties can easily be solved through effective communication and understandings. Based on the analysis of the available data and review of the findings several recommendations are made to alleviate some of the problems that exist between suppliers and the buyers. Findings are classified under the learning perspective which indicates how a necessary change takes place and the cultural and social perspective where characteristics of the domain is reviewed on the individual as well as the societal level.
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A strategic analysis and reorganizational approach due to the changing market conditions for Biotek Medikal
(1998) Aygen, Mert
Biotek Medikal is operating in the service industry since 1986. It became a leading firm in importing and selling bio-medical instruments and disposables (single use); particularly for cardiovascular surgery (CVS) and cardiology. (CRD) In 1989, due to sales expansion, need for assistance in sales activities forced the company to expand the existing sales force. Branch offices in Istanbul and Izmir were opened in that period. Until then, service to other parts o f Turkey has been handled from the Ankara office. In 1990, a drop was recorded in sales. Unplanned expansion, lack of coordination in sales, the general manager's concentration on administrative issues rather than sales were the major causes of the drop in sales that year. The Gulf Crisis made the situation even worse by delays in shipments from suppliers and changing policies in payment schedules by reimbursement agencies. When the crisis started, the Health Budget funds were transferred to probable emergency cases in the Southeast. For the first time, Biotek experienced serious payment problems with its suppliers due to late collection o f its receivables . The biggest devaluation in the republic's history in April 1994 led to a further crisis in the medical sector due to import dominant structure. Shortly after this devaluation all health care reimbursement entities ran into financing problems which had an impact on local distributors and suppliers as well. This was a fast growing market and most of the other competing firms were also enjoying the market conditions before the reshaping of the relations o f hospitals with reimbursement agencies. Biotek is now facing the challenge of organizing its structure to adapt to the rapid growth of the firm and the changes in the industry. In addition, Biotek has to struggle with the government regulations dictating the policy change in payments of the state owned enterprises. Page 2 of 48 In terms of the basic elements of the strategic management process, the thesis focuses only on environmental scanning and strategy formulation. Reference 1 In the environmental scanning, the thesis analyses the opportunities and threats that Biotek Medikal faces in the medikal market. Here the task environment of Biotek Medikal is clarified by reference to the bargaining power of buyers and suppliers and the competition among the competitors. The environmental scanning analysis also addresses the internal environment of Biotek Medikal in which the strengths and weaknesses of the company and its competitors are examined through technical capacities, human resources, market relations etc. Reference 2 Based on the findings of the earlier chapters, the final chapter tries to formulate strategies for Biotek Medikal designed to improve the competitive position of the company's products within the medical disposable market. Here particularly the following points are questioned; Should Biotek compete on the basis of low cost or should it differentiate its products on some basis other than cost such as focusing on the most profitable product lines or, if present, finding market niches. In conclusion different alternative strategy formulations are evaluated in terms of Porter's competitive strategy i.e., cost focus, cost leadership.