Harsha Vijaykumar hvijayku@callutheran.edu January 17 2015
Assignment: Organizational Life Cycle
1) Infosys Technologies Ltd. is in the formalization stage of the organizational life cycle stage. According to Daft (2013), the characteristics of formalization stage include incentives based on the profits of the company, the use of rules, procedures and control systems and less frequent communication (p. 359). This can be widely witnessed in the working culture of Infosys. The Top management of Infosys is concerned with the issues of strategy and planning, the middle management generally is held responsible for running the operations of the company. The middle level of the management ladder witnesses much of delegation under the control of the immediate seniors, and thus there is delegation with control. Even though, few characteristics of the work culture resemble those characteristics of the elaboration life cycle stage such as multiple service lines, institutionalized R & D departments and the repeated replacements of the top management. The characteristics like goal, top management style, reward and control systems are relevant of a formalization life cycle stage.
2) The primary goals of Infosys are to attain internal stability and market expansion. The Indian IT market is highly competitive, with the increasing number of companies in the sector to the growing technical population in the country. The major concern of the companies in the software industry is to attain
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