A Large Organization Has Lost Money Two Years Consecutively

question 63

Essay

A large organization has lost money two years consecutively. Top management is reluctant to make radical changes, and stakeholders are starting to withdraw their support. What stage of the organizational life cycle is this company in and what can it do to prevent organizational death?

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Definitions:

Lesbian Employees

Employees who identify as lesbian, a term used to describe women attracted to other women.

Gay Employees

Employees who identify as gay, reflecting their sexual orientation towards individuals of the same sex.

Workplace

The location or environment where people are employed and perform their jobs, ranging from offices to industrial settings.

Normalization

“The process of constructing, establishing, producing, and reproducing a taken-for-granted and all-encompassing standard used to measure goodness, desirability, morality, rationality, superiority, and a host of other dominant cultural values. As such, normalization becomes one of the primary instruments of power in modern society” (Yep, 2003, p. 18).