Doklam

Standoff:
A Decision
Dilemma
GROUP 7

Atulya
Amar
Rajesh
 Organizational Impact on Individual

How does Zaheer’s context (his organizational culture, structure and societal systems, power dynamics, inter
departmental coordination and locus of control, organizational independence and interdependence) effect his
individual adaptation to a challenging situation?

Ministry of External Affairs/ Govt organisation structure is a functional one. This is also refereed to as a
bureaucratic org structure and breaks up a company based on the specialization of its workforce.
• Rigid
• Hierarchical
• Segmented
• Dilutes individual responsibility

Organizational culture impacts motivation, promotes individual learning, group decision making,
communication and solving conflicts – Hofstede’s Onion model
 Interdependency among Organizational Entities

What is the level of workflow interdependence among departments? Was it an optimal state? What would be the
ideal state. How can Zaheer as a leader influence his organizational structure and systems to enable future leaders
be more effective in handling such situations?

James Thompson identifies 3 types of task

• Level of workflow inter-
interdependence
dependence is very high (Not an
optimum one)

• Hierarchy has 6 stages, Zaheer is Interdependence

at 2nd level from bottom Types

• Information exchange b/w 2 big

hierarchies – Economic affairs and
External affairs and Defence Pooled Sequential Reciprocal
ministry
 Our Learning/POV

Give an example from your work life when you faced such a situation of lack of coordination coming in the way of
effective goal resolution and how did you resolve it?

• No clear policies and procedures – No well defined plan in BIT wrt to crisis situations

• Mutual Communication – Zaheer should have discussed the issue his Team

• Voluntary Cooperation – None as the problem started in 2011

• Lack of Framework

• Crisis Management Training

 Real World Example

Give an example from your work life when you faced such a situation of lack of coordination coming in the way of
effective goal resolution and how did you resolve it?

Acoustic Project POC delayed by 4 months due to approval

THANKS