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This 7 page paper considers the way that organizational behavior theory can be considered as a contribution to the way that General Motors failed. The issues of culture, the employment relationship, teamwork and leadership are all included and comparisons are made with Japanese automotive firms. 7 sources are cited in the bibliography.
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File: TS14_TEOBGMfail.rtf
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impacted by aspects of organizational behave which may be seen to indicate potential weaknesses that could have been complicit in the way that the failure took place. While organizational culture
may not lead directly to failure it may help to create the circumstances in which is it more likely to may create a culture and practices where there is increased
resistance and the approaches to business may be more responsive or able to react in an easier manner. General Motors is an
interesting case. The difficulties the company is currently facing is partly the result of the recession which started in 2008, after filing the third-quarter results in November of 2008 General
Motors stated that they were only weeks away from bankruptcy, and needed help from the government in order to survive. A proposal to aid the company was rejected in the
Senate, but despite this the Bush administration made the decision to provide the refinancing in December 2008 and in June 2009 the firm filed for bankruptcy (Clark, 2009). The company
is currently second largest automotive company in the world, second only to Toyota who gained the lead in 2008 but the internal culture and organizational behaviour may be seen as
very different from Toyota. When looking at the way organization operate they may be seen as a form of collective, individual behaviours come together as a collective in a
workplace which manifest as organizational behaviour, in turn this can influence individual employee attitudes, and as such behaviour, that will impact on the overall organisational behaviour (Grzeda et al, 2008).
The study of organizational behaviour studies the way that these behaviour patterns manifest and the ways in which they can be influenced.
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