Research Paper on:
Power and Politics in Engineering Products

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the structure and approach to HRM. In the case supplied by the student Engineering Products there is a change taking place with increased integrated operations leading to shifting power basis  and the creation of new and changing political alliances. The development of new cross boarder units made up of employees from the different facilities from the various countries may  be seen as empowering and increasing synergy. Indeed, this may be seen as moves to help create a learning organisation where the employees increase their knowledge form a strong peer  base and as such increase the efficiency of the organisation by changing the culture from one where the facilities were isolated and independent to one where they work together and  have open channels of communication. This is an attempt to change the politics of the organisation away from single power bases and towards this more integrated culture. In this  we need to look at the way power and politics interact with culture in order to consider the impact that the changes are likely to have as this can impact  on the outcomes (Thompson, 1998). We can look at Scheins model (Schien,1992. He has divided this process of the development of culture  and its maintenance into six steps which need to be followed in order to create a unified culture across and organisation, so that shared goals and values are manifest. These  stages are as follows; * The way in which staff are selected so that they will fit into the existing culture (Schein, 1992). In this case the staff were  all selected under the old systems and as such they may resist the new systems. * Socialisation through an induction process, this is where the corporate culture may be