Assessing Your Organization S Value
Assessing Your Organization’s Value
Anita LaGrone
COM/310
December 01.2014
Mary Lee Cunill
Assessing Your Organization’s Value
Is your organization infected? Do your organization collaborates, share information, and helps each other? There are so many companies that are quick to say they are invested in their employees, however if it does not show their everyday activities, the culture will soon reflect it. Therefore, finding the person to fit for your organization cultural can be a challenging task. It requires insight into your own organization’s culture and an intense observation of the candidate’s personality and work style. When trying to find the right people for your organization, you need to first identify your own organization’s culture and work style. It is said that, “Culture is the organization’s immune system.” — Michael Watkins. Meaning, culture is a form of protection from developed pressures and conflict in your organization. It prevents “wrong thinking people” from entering the organization and infecting it. It means an organizational culture functions much like the human immune system. The human immune system prevents viruses and bacteria from taking hold and damaging the body. The problem, of course, is that organizational immune systems also can attack agents of needed change, and this has important implications for on-boarding and integrating people into organizations (Watkins, 2013). The organization I worked at was Children Hospital for 10 years. I have always been very proud to say that I worked there. Regardless of the department I worked in, employees were made to feel that they have contributed to the patient’s and their family’s experience there. I have found that there is a vast opportunity there if you are willing to take the risk of going outside your boundaries in doing different things. I have learned something new almost every single day there. At the end of the day, it was rewarding. Children Hospital is an organization
Anita LaGrone
COM/310
December 01.2014
Mary Lee Cunill
Assessing Your Organization’s Value
Is your organization infected? Do your organization collaborates, share information, and helps each other? There are so many companies that are quick to say they are invested in their employees, however if it does not show their everyday activities, the culture will soon reflect it. Therefore, finding the person to fit for your organization cultural can be a challenging task. It requires insight into your own organization’s culture and an intense observation of the candidate’s personality and work style. When trying to find the right people for your organization, you need to first identify your own organization’s culture and work style. It is said that, “Culture is the organization’s immune system.” — Michael Watkins. Meaning, culture is a form of protection from developed pressures and conflict in your organization. It prevents “wrong thinking people” from entering the organization and infecting it. It means an organizational culture functions much like the human immune system. The human immune system prevents viruses and bacteria from taking hold and damaging the body. The problem, of course, is that organizational immune systems also can attack agents of needed change, and this has important implications for on-boarding and integrating people into organizations (Watkins, 2013). The organization I worked at was Children Hospital for 10 years. I have always been very proud to say that I worked there. Regardless of the department I worked in, employees were made to feel that they have contributed to the patient’s and their family’s experience there. I have found that there is a vast opportunity there if you are willing to take the risk of going outside your boundaries in doing different things. I have learned something new almost every single day there. At the end of the day, it was rewarding. Children Hospital is an organization
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