...AN ANALYSIS OF THE CULTURE OF AN ORGANIZATION The Student’s Name The Name of the Class Professor The Name of the University The city and State where it is Located The Date Contents 1.0 Background to the Organization...........................................................................................4 2.0 Theoretical Framework.........................................................................................................5 3.0 Discussion of Central Topic..................................................................................................8 4.0 Conclusions and Recommendations.....................................................................................13 References..................................................................................................................................14 List of Figures Fig: 2.0 Diagrammatic representations of Hofstede’s cultural dimensions...............................7 AN ANALYSIS OF THE CULTURE OF AN ORGANIZATION 1.0 Background to the Organization Organization culture is a predominant aspect of an organization’s internal environment Azhar (2003). Culture, to some extent, influences performance and efficiency in an organization Rousseau (2000). Every organization has its unique culture that differs from that of other corporate Schein (2004). For purposes of this report I chose IKEA group, I will conduct an in-depth analysis of its culture using the appropriate...
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...Work Culture Preferences MGT/521 Week Two Work Culture Preferences Determining one’s culture can help one to build its relationship with one’s organization. In this paper one will determine how knowing your ideal work culture can help develop strategic and operational plans to achieve organizational goals. Next one will decide which competencies are essential to conducting a SWOT analysis. Last one will relate the essential competencies to one’s own competencies for conducting a SWOT analysis. Knowing the culture of one’s organization will allow the company to grow. A “strategic plan is a plan that applies to the entire organization and establish the organizations goals” (Coulter & Robbins, 2012). When knowing the culture this will also enable one to create a ideal work environment for the employees and one’s self. There can be different types of culture within an organization. This is where an operational plan in which is a plan that encompass a particular operational area of an organization can help a company reach its overall goals (Coulter & Robbins, 2012). Strategic management is something managers do to develop the organizations strategies (Coulter & Robbins, 2012). This business model helps a company decide on if it will be able to persuade customers to buy their brand or if the organization can make money in doing so. Identifying an organization’s mission will also help the organization to highlight the direction of the organization and what is...
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...Work Culture Preferences Management/521 June 17, 2013 Facilitator: Marvin Jones Abstract Organizations today understand that by being ethical, team centered, and well-resourced are vital for today’s managers and employees. Managers contribute positively to society and make a difference in employee’s lives by having a friendly and supportive work atmosphere. The organization will focus on achieving goals and each manager/team lead will have knowledge and experience in their field. Work Culture Preferences and Competencies The Work Culture Results states that I am ethical, team work centered and well-resourced for my organization. The ability to learn your ideal work culture is beneficial for your organization to achieve goals but also allows you to achieve goals. Strategic Plans are plans set forth for the employees in the organization because we emphasize on fairness. The organization understands that by having managers and employees who possess the knowledge in...
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...AN ANALYSIS OF THE CULTURE OF AN ORGANIZATION The Student’s Name The Name of the Class Professor The Name of the University The city and State where it is Located The Date Contents 1.0 Background to the Organization...........................................................................................4 2.0 Theoretical Framework.........................................................................................................5 3.0 Discussion of Central Topic..................................................................................................8 4.0 Conclusions and Recommendations.....................................................................................13 References..................................................................................................................................14 List of Figures Fig: 2.0 Diagrammatic representations of Hofstede’s cultural dimensions...............................7 AN ANALYSIS OF THE CULTURE OF AN ORGANIZATION 1.0 Background to the Organization Organization culture is a predominant aspect of an organization’s internal environment Azhar (2003). Culture, to some extent, influences performance and efficiency in an organization Rousseau (2000). Every organization has its unique culture that differs from that of other corporate Schein (2004). For purposes of this report I chose IKEA group, I will conduct an in-depth analysis of its culture using the appropriate...
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...An Analysis of the Culture of an Organization Student’s Name University Contents 1.0 Background to the Organization...........................................................................................3 2.0 Theoretical Framework.........................................................................................................4 3.0 Discussion of Central Topic..................................................................................................6 4.0 Conclusions..........................................................................................................................13 References..................................................................................................................................15 An Analysis of the Culture of an Organization 1.0 Background to the Organization Every organization has a personality that is unique, that individual character in the society is its culture (Barker, 2010). My company of choice for analysis is The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC). I have used this bank to discuss the central topic in my report.As I have found it to have a strong corporate culture that has continued to improve its efficiency, value, performance and ratings over the years. HSBBC is a privately based organization; it was incorporated in 1865 with a primary objective of increasing trade and commerce between Europe and China. The headquarters of HSBC are located in London...
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...Work Culture and SWOT Analysis Work culture is the type of environment people work in, the way they interact with one another, the way they go about their work and practices undertaken in this environment. Some working culture is apparent at first glance while others are more subtle and slow to reveal. This paper will discuss how knowing your ideal work culture can help you in developing strategies and operational plans to achieve organizational goals, which competencies are essential in conducting a SWOT analysis, and how my competencies relate to the essential competencies for conducting a SWOT analysis. Ideal Work Culture in Developing Strategies Knowing my ideal work culture benefits my organization to achieve goals and allows me to achieve personal goals as well. According to University of Phoenix, my work culture results showed me to be leadership intensive, supportive, and well-resourced. I supervise my staff and influence my organization by being supportive and clearly defining jobs, goals and expectations. I am well-resourced, comfortable, and have a well-designed work place to complete high standards of work. As manager, I can determine the way that things are done in my organization and how to lead my employees to develop and achieve those goals because I am aware of the shared values, principles, traditions, and operations that take place in my organization. Once I determine which goals need to be achieved, I can develop a plan to achieve those goals either...
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...Decision Making Introduction Analytic competitor can be described as an organization engaged in the committed activities of accumulating data, organizing and analyzing it into meaningful information, and following through with business decisions and activities informed by that information. In order for organizations to prosper as an analytics competitor they must use analytics data because most companies are offering similar products and services. They also must know what the customer want and how much they are willing to pay for that product. Competitors should also know the compensation costs, turnover rates and how to calculate how much personal contribute to or detract from the bottom line and how salary levels relate to individuals’ performance (Davenport 2006). When you define your key industrial competitive pressures can provide a framework for developing strategies for your growth. Analyzing your primary competitor and identifying their strengths, weakness, opportunities and threats (SWOT Analysis) help determine target markets, marketing plan, customer service, sales forecasting and sales planning. Competition in business is not new. Competing on Analytics is rapidly becoming not just a good idea, but vital for more and more companies as the economy squeezed from all sides (Taylor 2007). “Organizations that become more analytical have leaders who fully embrace analytics and lead the company’s culture toward fact-based decision making. According to Tom Davenport, a distinguished...
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...Running Head: STRATEGIC PLAN Strategic Plan, Part II SWOTT Analysis Jennifer Jones BUS/475 Derek Webster January 23, 2012 SWOTT Analysis SWOT Analysis is an acronym to the internal strengths and weaknesses of a firm and the environmental opportunities and threats affecting them. Pearce and Robinson (2009). This type of analysis is used to analyze and evaluate an organizations current situation and environment. An internal and external analysis was performed on Super Diva Kid Spa, a proposed business venture. The analysis will cover critical areas essential for the growth and development of Super Diva. In the following synopsis, several internal and external forces will be discussed. Those forces include goals, resources, competitive analysis, economy, environment, legal and regulatory and culture. Additionally, major issues and opportunities Super Diva face will be included in this paper. Circumstances surround each issue will also be addressed. Goals When starting up a business, setting goals are essential to the growth and well-being of the company. Goals are internal strengths and forces that are observable and measure results. Goals can be described as short-term or long-term. Short-term goals are detailed, assessable and time specific. These types of goals involve a direct mission and are fulfilled in a short time frame. Long-term goals are those goals that take place in the future or within a timeline usually three to five...
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... The work culture and the mindset of people have also dramatically changed over the past two decades. The introduction of foreign products has improved the quality of the local products. The lifestyle has also witnessed a major shift from the pre – liberalization years. Thus the changes that are occurring worldwide are very important and forcing organizations to change. Therefore the change agent working in a traditional organizational development framework, describing culture is the first step in a rational change process which involves moving an organization from ‘here’ to ‘there’. For the practitioner who works from a complex or living systems perspective, describing culture is also as a key part of the change process itself. The paper is an attempt to investigate as to how much a given Organizational Culture can predict the prevalent Organizational Citizenship Behaviors in three different sectors namely, Manufacturing, Banking and Information Technology. Index Term—Organizational culture, organizational citizenship behavior, correlation. I. INTRODUCTION The concept of organizational culture is relatively new and is still evolving. The discipline of organizational culture emerged from the fields of anthropology and sociology. The formal writing on the subject began by Andrew Pettigrew in 1979 from an anthropological point of view. Pettigrew focused on the concepts of myth, ritual, and symbolism in an organization context [1]. The culture is particularly ...
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...Environmental Scan Paper The business environment of an organization reveals much about its competitiveness and the possible influences on the success of its strategies. The focus of this paper will be an environmental scan of the internal and external environments of two real-world firms, their competitive advantages and company strategies for creating value and sustaining competitiveness, measurement guidelines for verifying strategic effectiveness and their evaluation. Internal and External Environments Environmental scanning of the internal organizational environment focuses on company culture, employee-employee, manager-employee, and manager-manager, manager-shareholder interactions, in addition to organizational structure, natural resources’ access and brand awareness, among others (Schneider, 1995, p.70). Environmental scanning of the external organizational environment focuses on the analysis of the industry/immediate environment, national, and macro-environments. Analysis of the industry environment appraises the competitive Environmental Scan Paper The business environment of an organization reveals much about its competitiveness and the possible influences on the success of its strategies. The focus of this paper will be an environmental scan of the internal and external environments of two real-world firms, their competitive advantages and company strategies for creating value and sustaining competitiveness, measurement guidelines for verifying strategic...
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...potential values of an analysis of your own organization or of the organization you are considering as a focus for an analysis. The language that you can use to capture two potential values of analysis in an organization is called SWOT analysis. This is a strategic planning method that is used by most organizations to value the company. It captures the strengths, opportunities, limitations or weaknesses and threats. The organization that I am considering is Facebook. Facebook has several strengths and opportunities but it also has its reasonable share of weakness as well. Some of the strength being that it is a popular and most used social networking site that allows people to stay connected and business to get seen. It has a weakness though that a lot of people don’t like and could end up theoretically hurting the association because of privacy issues. Facebook is releasing a lot of the users’ information to businesses, which is good for the businesses, but the people do not like it. Directing a SWOT analysis can really help your business out when it comes to your strengths and weaknesses. 3. You might consider possible problems you currently perceive in the organization and describe how a cultural analysis would help you better identify solutions to these problems. Or you might reflect on current changes being considered or implemented and ways a cultural analysis would help in the process of change management. A cultural analysis could help the organization better identify solutions...
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...UNIVERSITY OF PROFESSIONAL STUDIES ACCRA THE EFFECT OF ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE ON EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE AT BARCLAYS BANK, GHANA TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION 1 1.1 Background of the Study 1 1.2 Statement of the Problem 2 1.3 Purpose of the Study 3 1.4 Objectives of the Study 3 1.5 Research Hypotheses 4 1.6 Significance of the Study 4 1.7 Scope and Organization of the Study 5 CHAPTER TWO: LITERAURE REVIEW 7 2.1 Introduction 7 2.2. Theories of Organizational culture 7 2.3 Other theories 13 2.4 Empirical Literature Review 23 2.5 Operational Definitions of Terms and Constructs 29 2.6 General Overview of the Banking Sector 30 CHAPTER THREE: METHODOLOGY 32 3.1 Introduction 32 3.2 Design of the Study 32 3.3 Population and Sampling 33 3.4 Sources of Data 34 3.5 Study Instrument…………………………………………………………………………………………………....35 3.6 Analytical Techniques…………………………………………………………………………………………...35 3.7 Analysis of Data 34 3.8 Variables…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………36 3.8.1 Dependent Variables………………………………………………………………………………………36 CHAPTER FOUR: RESULTS AND DISCUSSION 40 4.1 Introduction........................................................................................................40 4.2 Data presentation………………………………………………………………………………………………40 4.3 Testing of hypothesis 41 4.4 Findings 47 CHAPTER FIVE: SUMMARY, CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS 56 5.1 Summary...
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...A STUDY OF HOW LEADERSHIP STYLE AND ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE INFLUENCE EMPLOYEE SATISFACTION (A CASE STUDY AT PRIVATE HIGHER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS IN TERENGGANU) LECTURER PROF. MADYA NORUDIN MANSOR TEAM MEMBERS MOHD FAIZAL JAAFAR 2011392489 WAN RAMLA WAN NAWANG 2011343575 NORAINI BINTI AMMRAN 2011952075 NAZREEN BEGUM NAJIBULLAH KHAN 2011545767 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT “In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful” Assalamualaikum W.B First of all, we would like to put our hands together to thank our lecturer Prof. Madya Norudin Mansor for his continuous support and guidance in preparing this project. The purpose of this project is to apply organizational behavior elements in the real world by conducting a survey at one of the higher institution learning organization. Besides, we also would like to thank to En Hamdan who has help us to install the SPSS software which we used as tool for data analysis. We also would like to thank to the Private Higher Educational Institutions in Terengganu for giving us the opportunity to conduct the survey. Lastly, special thank to our team members of EMBA for their support. TABLE OF CONTENT NO | TITLE | PAGE NUMBER | 1. | CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION | | 2. | CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW | | 3. | CHAPTER 3: METHODOLOGY | | 4. | CHAPTER 4: DATA ANALYSIS AND FINDINGS | | 5. | CHAPTER 5: DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION | | 6. | CHAPTER 6: RECOMMENDATION | | 7. | REFERENCES...
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...Work Culture Preference Maria Hernandez MGT/521 February 27, 2013 Dr. Vela Work Culture Preference The following describes ideal work culture and how it is essential for developing strategic and operational plans to achieve organizational goals. “Each of us has a unique personality – traits and characteristics that influence the way we act and interact with others” (Robbins & Coulter, 2012, p. 51). These personal traits and characteristics when matched up with the values and competencies of the work environment make easier to achieve company goals. One can find the ideal work culture based on one’s values by completing an evaluation, such as the Career Plan Building Activity: Work Culture Preference. Ideal Work Culture For instance an ideal work culture may include high powered, expert, and ethical environments. High-powered organizations have demanding jobs, career development, and the chance to try different jobs or work in different places. One with these preferences would need to find a culture that not only promotes the above but also one that motivates the employee to obtain career advancement. When an employee does not have opportunities for advancement his or her motivation will decline. In an expert culture this includes varied and groundbreaking work, high emphasis on specialist expertise, people encouraged to express opinions, innovative, creative atmosphere, control work schedule and organization, and a dynamic and changing environment...
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...Strategic Plan, Part II: SWOTT Analysis Rich Bucceri BUS 475 May 28, 2012 Sarita Wesley Intro Utilizing SWOTT analysis for the Bucceri Insurance and Financial Services organization this paper will discuss internal and external factors to identify the right steps for the business to take to help be successful. SWOTT analysis will help guide upper management decide on what steps the business should take. Through a thorough SWOTT analysis we will look at the external and internal trends to identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats that the company could potentially face. SWOTT Analysis In order to conduct a successful SWOTT analysis we will need to assess the market, our company, and our competition. Additionally the organization will need to review any areas that could potentially generate a loss in sales or generated revenue. The first thing we will look at to identify potential future opportunities is our strengths and weaknesses. By identifying the current strengths the organization can identify what is currently working and if there could be any enhancements to make it better. By reviewing the weaknesses of the operation will help with identifying certain areas to alleviate as well as modify to hopefully at some point move into the strength column. Next the company will want to identify any opportunity that is where a need may exist and could potentially move into a profit. As a final piece the company will look at...
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