Understanding Management
Understanding Management
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Author: Richard L. Daft, Dorothy Marcic
Publisher: South-Western College Pub
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Chapter 8, Problem 1DQ
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To determine:

Whether the natural imbalances can motivate the firms that are bitter rivals, to keep aside their competitive spirits and focus on cooperation and courtesy.

Introduction:

Times of crisis through natural imbalances in the world, which is inevitable such as the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center or the devastation from Hurricane Sandy in 2012 can instigate firms to let go of the competitive bitterness between each other and focus on picking up the scraps of the firms left after these attacks, and build up the corporate sector together again from scratch.

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Answer to Problem 1DQ

The motivated behavior will not continue in the long run, as it is not the nature of business organizations because having a competitive advantage and earning profits is the way of survival of the organization.

Explanation of Solution

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Times of shared crisis between organizations in occurrence to natural imbalances in the world will tend to motivate and inspire firms to pick up the pieces left from the disasters together and get back on their feet from helping each other. The discussion is about whether this behavior would continue in the long run.

The natural behavior of profit motivated firms is being competitive and having a rivalry into being the best company in the industry. However, these indifferences would be put away once something occurs which is out of control of the firm such as a natural disaster or terrorist attack.

Firms would then look back at their destroyed businesses and buildings and everything they've built so far and stress on constructing the business from scratch to the top again. This would then create a symphony amongst all the firms which were affected and cause a realization amongst them that the only way to come back up is to help each other and build this sector together because all the resources and intellect would be required to erect this plan.

However after a period of time, once firms are back on their feet and does not require the need to lean against one another, they would then go back to the normal nature of firms on competitiveness and profit maximizing. This nature can then slowly tear away the harmonized motivation amongst the firms.

However, the bond created out of traumatizing experiencecan last for a long time, and competitiveness can be considered friendlier than cut-throat rivalry. This can be cherished by the organizations that faced the disaster together.

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