Essays on organizational culture

Bulgaria vs. Germany: Business Culture Contrasts Each country and its inhabitants have their own specific way of communicating with one other. It involves greeting, laughing, smiling, and basically every kind of human behavior. This specific behavior we simply call – culture. The culture reflects in every aspect of people’s everyday life, even at our workplace […]

The concept of work culture can be explained as an energy field that works to determine how people in an organization think, act and view the world around them. It constitutes of the values, beliefs and ideas that control the way the organization will conduct business. For an organization to meet its strategic goal and […]

Increase sales: The may be done by lowering price so consumers purchase more. May seek to increase sales through more clever marketing. 2. Increase market share: Market share is a business’s share of total industry sales. This is east to visualize using a pie chart that shows the percentage of sales the business has in […]

Abstract The problem of designing and implementing a system of inquiry into code-of-ethics compliance can be approached in two ways – process based and outcome based evaluations. A sound data collection plan that would use surveys, interviews and focus groups, and direct observations will be the key instrument in either of the approaches. The measure […]

When is comes to organizational culture within Lockheed Martin, the company for which I work, they leave much to be desired. Organizational Culture can be defined as the characteristic traditions, norms, and values that employees share (dessler). I believe Lockheed is finally realizing their mistakes and are currently trying to take drastic measures to improve […]

Selection and promotion of other leaders can also be categorized as an ‘Effort-to-performance expectancy’. This is also a combination of ‘Reward system’ through promotion and individual recognition of their ‘belongingness’ in an organization or team. This approach usually provides an immediate sense of recognition and self-worth in an individual and usually positively affects performance and […]

Developing Managers: The Functional, the Symbolic, the Sacred and the Profane [*]. Author/s: Ken Kamoche Abstract This paper offers a new perspective on international management by examining the role of culture and management development in creating international expertise, a sense of identity and realizing organizational control. A critical analysis of the culture transmission and management […]

Business organizations that have succeeded and performed superbly in both turbulent and calm business environments pay much attention to both cultural values and business performance. Studies have revealed that good cultural values energize and motivate employees by especially appealing to higher ideals and unifying employees through the shared goals. By paying attention to organizational culture, […]

In an increasing number of companies, traditional office space is giving way to community areas and empty chairs as employees work from home, from their cars or from virtually anywhere. Advanced technologies and progressive HR strategies make these alternative offices possible.Imagine it s 2 o clock on a Wednesday afternoon. Inside the dining room of […]

Still it would be a mistake to believe that every employee should stay at the organisation especially if they feel the stress a work life imbalance could create. Therefore it is important for team leaders to discover reasons behind an employee leaving. Research discovers for a fact that valuable employees are leaving because they felt […]

Executive Summary Intellinex LLC is an eLearning company that was recently spun off from its parent Ernest & Young LLP. At its inception Intellinex claimed to be one of the largest eLearning providers. They have an aggressive strategy to take advantage of the consolidating eLearning market and become a “one-stop” provider of all eLearning services […]

Corporate culture and management practices based on Confucianism are common in China. The Chinese values of Social harmony and benevolent paternalism have roots in Confucianism. Rating scales, essays and forced distribution are the commonly used appraisal techniques in China. These techniques are traditional and are embedded in the culture characterized by collectivism and are large […]

In order to organize people in organization, Human resource management, which is an important, effective and vastly used branch of management, is used. Research has proved the importance and effectiveness of Human Resource Management and its contribution in the success of a business. Human Resource Management is an important part of Management. It helps the […]

Introduction All organizations always put in place strategies and objectives that would ensure that they grow and develop effectively. This paper will utilize the general systems theory in the evaluation of organizational development at the Coca Cola Company. The general systems theory focuses on the symbiotic relationship existing between the organization and the external environment. […]

Total annual turnover averages 45 percent in centers that use a production line approach to service compared to 25 percent in centers taking a high involvement approach. Employee quit rates average 23 percent in the production-line centers versus 9 percent in the high involvement centers. The comparable figures for daily absenteeism are 9 percent and […]

Man is by far the most critical resource of an organization. No amount of money, materials and machines can produce results by themselves. Men are needed to manage them. Machines can be programmed to take over routine, repetitive jobs, but only a human brain can design the machines. Certainly useful advice except for the drawback […]

While IBM still dominated the mainframe market, helped significantly by its US government contracts and supplies to many major companies throughout the world, it had not responded to important changes in other markets. The computer market has become technically very diverse and there have been many aggressive new entrants. Such new entrants have not been […]

Management and Leadership : Generoso Pharmaceutical Company Abstract : This paper examines the management and leadership of David Generoso to Generoso Pharmaceutical Company in order to become productive and successful . This paper will discuss the following : First this paper will examine the roles and responsibilities of leaders in creating and maintaining a healthy […]

In case these variables demonstrated a fluctuation, Intel took corrective action on the monitored issues. Intel recognized the need for an integrated automation system, which provided the company with connections to a time-phased baseline plan. Gray and Larson (2006) stress the importance of having an integrated system. “In too many case there is a small […]

Reviewing the Facts BUSN 258 Craig Lawson Chapter 2: question 8, page 35 (Reviewing the Facts section) What are some factors (patterns of behavior) that project a company’s culture? List several examples from organizations you work in. Factors that project a company’s culture include patterns of behaviors through the company’s employees. “Culture is a composite […]

Halliburton has, in its over 100 year history, grown into a massive player in the global oil industry, employing over 100,000 personnel in over 100 countries, giving the firm a true global reach (Halliburton, 2005). This level of achievement has not come without a price, however, as the firm has been exposed to have had […]

Globalisation and Organisational Change Week 2 Summary BY overL0d3 The article that I have chosen for this week summary is ‘Death of a Factory: Market Rationalism’s Hidden Abode in Inner-City Melbourne’ by Rob Lambert. The writer of this article presents a brief overview of the historical development of this local business, an account of the […]