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Foundation Degree in Accounting and Finance Subject: Organisational Behaviour Assignment Title: Culture, Structure and Change Assignment Submission: w/c 01/12/2003 Course Tutor: C.E. Stafford Name: Daisy So Course Code: FDA Contents Front Cover 1 Contents 2 Introduction 3 1. Defining Culture 3 1.1 Organisational Culture 4 1.2 Culture of old Water Authority 4 1.3 Culture of Water Atlantic 5 1.4 Comparison of the old Water Authority and Atlantic Water 5 2. Defining Structure 6 2.1 Organisational Structure 6 2.2 The old Water Authority's Structure 6 2.3 Atlantic Water's Structure 7 3. Organisational change 8 3.1 Strategies for Change and Innovation 8 3.2 Atlantic Water's Approaches 9 4. Conclusion 10 Diagram 1 11 Bibliography 12 Reference 13 Introduction There is a radical change after the privatisation of Atlantic Water. The change not only affects the organisation's objectives and strategic planning, but also its structure and culture. B Burnes (1996: 115) cited writers such as Handy (1986), Allaire and Firsirotu (1984) argued the issue as follow: '...to operate effectively and efficiently, an organisation's culture need to match or be appropriate to its structure. Given that an organisation's environment can change rapidly, as can its structure, situations will arise in the environment, structure and practices of the organisation.' Observing organisational behaviour is not enough, we need to understand the meaning...

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