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MGT5MPT : The Concept of Paradigms

   

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1PARADIGM WARSIntroduction The current assignment discusses the concept of paradigms wars applied in the context ofan organization and its effect in supporting and justifying the organizational objectives. Theemergence and coalition of different new approaches brought within a business culture oftenhelps in achieving the target business goals. In this respect, novel terminologies, innovativeresearch methods and new approaches have been seen to provide competitive advantage to anemerging business organization. Some of the futuristic approaches undertaken in this aspect areuse of organizational stories or case histories for relating to similar situations, discourse analysisand collaborative strategies, which involves respondents as co-researchers and co-interpreters.The organizational culture can be better understood with the application of different theories.The theories help in comprehending the particular situations and designing effective solutionswhich helps in bringing about the suitable changes. The current study tries to critically evaluatethe strategic choice and determinist theories in understanding the organizational action. Here,both the theories have been evaluated to arrive at suitable and accepted standards.Strategic choice in understanding organizational action The strategic choice aims at focussing upon the truly important issues in the respect of anorganization and make relevant choices. In literal terms the strategic choice can be defined as asystematic, formally, documented process for deciding upon the key factors that an organizationneed to take into consideration for designing a corporate strategic plan. The strategic choice ispreceded by strategic decision making which aims at figuring out the different issues prevalent

2PARADIGM WARSwithin the organization, finding out the relation between the issues and their potential effects onthe organizational performance (Aguinis et al., 2017).The strategic choice could be divided into number of steps such as reaffirming thefundamental process of the organization. As commented by Boxenbaum (2014), the strategicchoice making covers some of the important objectives such as identification of the targetcustomer segment in the organization. Therefore, the organization is entitled to provide betterservices and products to the consumers through strategic choice and active decision making. Themakings of strategic choices are dependent upon four possible attributes such as –authenticity,believability, communicability and deliverability. For the strategic choice to be authentic, a number of viable alternative options must beavailable. The objectives need to be clearly stated within the strategic goals specifying its targetsegment of customers and the exact amount of services that the business organization is willingto provide. As commented by Jarzabkowski & Kaplan (2015), selection of the basis on whichthe business will compete provides the organization with a competitive advantage. The believability aspect of the strategic choice needs to be backed up by evidence andcommitments of the team members within a business organization involved in the planning ofthe strategic goals and objectives. As asserted by Wheelen & Hunger (2017), the believablechoices need to be supported by real and trustworthy data. Here, the logic applied need to beclearly stated and subject to further assessment. The strategic choices need to be communicatedeffectively within the team responsible for planning and decision making. As mentioned byWhittington (2014), effective and transparent communication further helps in understanding theperspectives of the organization. This further helps in setting of the organizational goals and

3PARADIGM WARSobjectives. The strategic choice also needs to be doable or executable and should be backed upwith proper research or data.Application of determinist theories The determinist theories applied within the context of an organization helps in bringingabout the suitable changes within the organizational framework. The approach undertaken overhere could be justified using different school of thoughts and accepted standards. It furtherconsists of a number of theories such as resource dependency theory, institutional theory andpopulation ecology. The strategic management focuses upon providing the company with acompetitive advantage over others. The determinist theories on the other hand focus upon long term growth or evolution ofthe organization as a whole. There are three different theories covered under the deterministapproaches such as the institutional, resource dependent and population ecology theories. Ascommented by Wollmann & Steiner (2017), the institutional theory is particularly useful inconducting a research upon the changing market dynamics. The population ecology further helpsin analysing the social, economic and political considerations, which further affects the workprocess of an organization. Resource dependency theory According to Drees and Heugens (2013), the resource dependency theory is an importantcomponent how the determinism principles that is applied within an organization. The purpose ofthis theory is to focus upon the external resources that have direct and indirect impact on theorganizational performance. .Pfeffer and SALANCIK (2015), have added in this context that it is

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