Busi 2215 16 18 Ed McHugh Assignment
Assignment #7
Busi 2215(16-18) Ed McHugh
Emily Crowell, 0659702
1. What purpose does culture serve for an organization?
1a. I believe that the purpose a culture serves for an organization is that it helps to form the personality of the organization; it defines values, norms, and beliefs. By having culture in the organization it will help control individuals and groups on how they act inside and outside of the organization.
2. Describe the Mayo Clinic’s culture from the perspective of espoused values and enacted values.
2a. From what I have read in the article the Espoused values I could see were the values of the organization, the beliefs of the company and the philosophy that the company teams follows. As well in the article the Enacted values I came across were the values of the employees, which were to actually push and challenge themselves with self-actualization and hard cases. In all of this the Mayo Clinic strives to promote respect, between not only the patients but the staff as well, and to treat the patients in the best way possible to ensure that they have the treatment they deserve.
3. Using the perspective of the functions of organizational culture, explain the impact of Mayo’s values and ideals.
3a. What I have gathered from the article in regards to the organizational culture, I believe that the impact of Mayo’s values and ideas will provide a control mechanism, sense of identity, reinforcing the values and a sense of making device. With these four values/ideas the company really shows that they are willing to accept the norms of taking care of patients and working on diseases and cures for those diseases, and really striving to taking care of the patient. They also realize the unacceptable norms of working to make higher profits which in a health care industry are a huge deal and pharmaceutical companies are constantly doing this year after year. With Mayo Clinic’s compensation system in place they really show that they are not about incentives
Busi 2215(16-18) Ed McHugh
Emily Crowell, 0659702
1. What purpose does culture serve for an organization?
1a. I believe that the purpose a culture serves for an organization is that it helps to form the personality of the organization; it defines values, norms, and beliefs. By having culture in the organization it will help control individuals and groups on how they act inside and outside of the organization.
2. Describe the Mayo Clinic’s culture from the perspective of espoused values and enacted values.
2a. From what I have read in the article the Espoused values I could see were the values of the organization, the beliefs of the company and the philosophy that the company teams follows. As well in the article the Enacted values I came across were the values of the employees, which were to actually push and challenge themselves with self-actualization and hard cases. In all of this the Mayo Clinic strives to promote respect, between not only the patients but the staff as well, and to treat the patients in the best way possible to ensure that they have the treatment they deserve.
3. Using the perspective of the functions of organizational culture, explain the impact of Mayo’s values and ideals.
3a. What I have gathered from the article in regards to the organizational culture, I believe that the impact of Mayo’s values and ideas will provide a control mechanism, sense of identity, reinforcing the values and a sense of making device. With these four values/ideas the company really shows that they are willing to accept the norms of taking care of patients and working on diseases and cures for those diseases, and really striving to taking care of the patient. They also realize the unacceptable norms of working to make higher profits which in a health care industry are a huge deal and pharmaceutical companies are constantly doing this year after year. With Mayo Clinic’s compensation system in place they really show that they are not about incentives