Webster Industry Case Study
In any organization it is essential to understand the relationship between organizational culture, leadership behavior and job satisfaction. This understanding allows management to know what cultural factors drive the organization and can be used to align the organization with its strategy allow for a good reward system. Culture within organizations is important as it plays an enormous role on whether employees are in happy and safe environments and can perform at the full capacity. Strong cultures are based on two characteristics, high levels of agreement among employees about what’s a valued and high level of intensity about these values CITATION Cha03 \l 1033 (Chatman & Cha, 2003). Although it seemed as if it had a great culture and a reward system, Webster’s had its fair share of flaws within its culture.
Of the things working in Webster’s culture, is its family like culture. One employee was quoted saying that there was a sense of family here, meaning at Webster. Employees often spent time together outside of work in places such as churches and civic positions. Carter and his family often dealt with his co-workers at various community and civic activities. This sense of belonging served as huge role in employee motivation as stated by Maslow. It also allows employees to form an even closer relationship among themselves even at work. The company was often viewed as one that values employees and is willing to go out of its way to do what’s best for employees. By encouraging employees to hold civic positions it further strengthened its culture. The company’s culture allowed it to meet the employees’ safety as it was well known that if you have a problem, you can take it to the company and it will be considered.
Webster’s organization culture contained norms which seemed to hinder the organization’s ability to perform. Within the organization, information sharing did not seem to be encouraged, Carter was charged with an important task; however, did not
Of the things working in Webster’s culture, is its family like culture. One employee was quoted saying that there was a sense of family here, meaning at Webster. Employees often spent time together outside of work in places such as churches and civic positions. Carter and his family often dealt with his co-workers at various community and civic activities. This sense of belonging served as huge role in employee motivation as stated by Maslow. It also allows employees to form an even closer relationship among themselves even at work. The company was often viewed as one that values employees and is willing to go out of its way to do what’s best for employees. By encouraging employees to hold civic positions it further strengthened its culture. The company’s culture allowed it to meet the employees’ safety as it was well known that if you have a problem, you can take it to the company and it will be considered.
Webster’s organization culture contained norms which seemed to hinder the organization’s ability to perform. Within the organization, information sharing did not seem to be encouraged, Carter was charged with an important task; however, did not
Bibliography: Chatman, J. A., & Cha, S. E. (2003). Leading by Leveraging Culture. California Management Review, 23. Roosevelt, T. R. (1976). Webster Industries (A). Harvard Business School, 3.