Anheuser-Busch traces its origins back to the Bavarian brewery, which was established in 1852. Eberhard Anheuser acquired the Bavarian brewery in 1860 and renamed it E. Anheuser & Co. In 1864, his son-in-law, Adolphus Busch, joined the company that would later become Anheuser-Busch.…
When making corporate changes on a company, issues such as resistance from employees is likely to be a problem. This is because of factors such a fear of the unknown, fear of failure, lack of trust and losing something of value. For Nokia, a new chief executive,…
This paper will discuss CrysTel a telecommunication company that has come to the realization that they need to develop a corporate culture that can support constant change. The first topic reviewed will be the Implications of Organizational Change and associated impact on employee behavior. The next topic the paper will discuss is the proposed change model and the potential impact that human variables and resistance to change will have on the process. The paper will review CrysTel will address employee reaction to the change specifically resistance to the change. The third topic, Measures to Monitor Progress will discuss the proposed leadership style and strategies that CrysTel will implement. The last two topics, Continuing Success of a Change Process and Evaluate the Dynamics of Organizational Change, will discuss respectively the management strategies need to implement an ongoing change process and additional challenges facing CrysTel over the next decade. The following section will review the current state of the company based data provided in the University of Phoenix. (2006). Building a Culture for Sustaining Change simulation.…
Verizon Communications Inc. is a global broadband and telecommunications company based in New York. Verizon originated in 1983 as Bell Atlantic, operating from New Jersey to Virginia and NYNEX, covering New York to Maine as a result of the AT&T breakup into seven “baby bells” in 1984 (Hoovers, 2011). The name was changed to Verizon in June 2000 because of the merger of GTE and Bell Atlantic (Hoovers, 2011).…
The Intel Corporation produces microprocessors that are used in computers. It has a market share of over 75% and has been praised for its highly innovative culture. Do you think that an innovative culture can be relied on to guarantee the future success of a business? Justify your answer with reference to Intel and/or other organisations you know. (40 marks)…
Verizon has employed multiple strategies to evolve its organizational culture and embed specific principles, attitudes, expectations, and behaviors as organizational norms (Kinicki & Williams, 2013). After merging Bell Atlantic, GTE, and AirTouch Cellular into one company to form Verizon, the company established its Company Credo to direct the actions of all leaders and employees (Strigl & Swiatek, 2011). Verizon’s Company Credo formally outlines their culture of focusing on the customer first, keeping integrity at the core of everything they do, leveraging teamwork to stay agile, embracing diversity, and running to a crisis (Verizon (USA), n.d.). Furthermore, Verizon shares stories with employees, various professional and community organizations,…
In order for Verizon to maintain its dominance in market share, subscriber count, and profitability, in the hyper competitive wireless industry, Verizon must achieve its 2016 organizational goals of growing top line revenue by 5%, reducing operational cost by 10%, and increasing customer satisfaction by 3% (Fiercewireless, 2016). Therefore, Verizon has established clear, concise, and specific objectives for each of its various companies, divisions, departments, and teams based upon their role within the organization. By doing so, Verizon is able to ensure employees throughout all parts of the organization clearly comprehend their departmental, team, and individual objectives, are contributing towards the accomplishment of the over arching…
* Organizational culture- The system of shared actions, values, and beliefs that develops within an organization and guides the behavior of its members…
In order for all organizations to survive they must adapt to their surroundings. Individuals term this saying as the ‘survival of the fittest’. Crys Tel is a telecommunication company with 2500 employees and annual revenue of 200 million. Its services include the production of cables, network development, and wireless solutions. As the telecommunication advance, so must Crys Tel who is now force to adapt both internally and externally by building a culture for sustaining change. In this paper, I will identify the major implications and human behavior of change at Crys Tel. Selecting the right change model will help develop a plan to address human variables, potential resistance to change, and contingency strategies for this resistance. The appropriate leadership style to implement change will be selected. I will also recommend management and leadership practices that will contribute to the success of change. I will recommend measures to monitor progress of these changes and analyze three leaderships that Crys Tel could face within 5 to 10 years.…
The quality of employees hired determines the quality of innovations. Therefore, it is important for Verizon to attract and retain top talents in the company in order to remain competitive in the industry. Verizon’s effort to attract top talent can be measured through the education level of new hires, which will show the company’s ability to hire competent individuals. Verizon’s effort to retain top talents can be measured through compensation comparison across the industry,…
In the historical fiction book, Shackleton's Stowaway by Victoria Mckernan tells the the storey of the Shackleton Exhibition to Antarctic in 1914. The main character in this book is a tough kid named Perce Blackborow he is an 18 year old with lots of determination and drive. In the beginning of the book peirce and his friend see an job opening on Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship, this is a huge opportunity for both of them so they both try out for the job, but only one of them make it and it's not Perce. After Perce in turned down he goes to Ernest hackleton to plead for a spot on the ship and is granted the job to look after the dogs on the ship until they depart for the expedition.…
The impact of the Credo of Johnson & Johnson on the organization can be seen on several levels. To begin with, the authors of this case, Professor Aguilar and Arvind Bhambri, quote a senior executive as saying, “The prime motivator in J&J is the opportunity to grow with more responsibility. It runs through the whole organization.” This brief statement illuminates what is at the center of the Credo when speaking about the responsibility of J&J to its employees – provide a fertile ground for employees to work, one that is managed well with room to grow, open to change and challenge, ripe with opportunities to innovate and take risk while being treated fairly and compensated well. These ingredients encourage a like-minded move towards advancement that inevitably come with employee / employer loyalty, respect and a common goal in line with those of Robert Johnson and his son, the General. In short, the Credo, when taken to heart, propagates a unified culture. This is supported by the fact that J&J could when needed, look outside of one of its 250[1] companies for a qualified candidate to fill a position in that organization from within one of the other 249 companies, confident that the prospective candidate would be able to move into that position with ease.…
When the United States was founded, neither women nor African Americans had civil rights. This all began to change in 1800’s when people began to fight for equality. The Women’s Rights Movement and the Abolitionist Movement, although different in leadership and protest, were similar in their motivation and spread of ideas.…
Verizon has used role modeling, training, coaching, organizational goals and performance criteria, measurable and controllable activities, and organizational systems and procedures as means to change their culture. Role modeling, training, and coaching are routine methods used by Verizon. One of the company’s goals is to build a workforce as good as it networks (Kinicki & Williams,…
Corporate culture has been said to be the toughest component of a business to change. Do you agree or disagree with this statement and why?…