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Attraction-Selection-Attrition (ASA) processA process where people with matching values are attracted to and selected by an organization, while those who don't fit leave via attrition | ||
AuthoritarianKeeping close and strict control over subordinates, maintaining a distinct professional relationship, and supervising employees to ensure productivity | |
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Boundedly-rational decision-makingAccounts for the critiques of the rational model of decision-making by suggesting people search for a solution that is "good enough" | |
BrainstormingA group decision-making process that consists of generating concepts and ideas quickly and without criticism | |
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Change implementationExecuting the change plan in organizational change | |
Competing values framework (CVF)A popular model of culture comprising two dimensions: orientation of the culture (internal vs external focus) and the environment (flexible vs stable) | |
ComplianceBehaving the way others expect you to, whether you agree with it or not | |
Conflict resolutionBringing disagreements to an end by using one of five approaches: avoiding, forcing, collaborating, compromising, or accommodating | |
ContingenciesEvents that are likely to happen in connection with or as a consequence of something else | |
Corporate social responsibility (CSR)When a business views itself as a member of society with social obligations and responsibility for its effects on environmental and social well-being | ||