customer-centred culture that emphasizes outstanding service and meets our commitments at every level of our organization. Shareholder Focus We are focused on creating sustainable shareholder value through developing profitable products and projects‚ and soundly managing the business for the benefit of customers‚ shareholders‚ suppliers‚ colleagues‚ partners and communities. Maintaining ethical and honest behaviour Our reputation for integrity is perhaps our most valuable business asset. If
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Organizational culture can be defined as a system of shared beliefs and values that develops within an organization and guides the behavior of its members. It includes routine behaviors‚ norms‚ dominant values‚ and a feeling or climate conveyed. The purpose and function of this culture is to help foster internal integration‚ bring staff members from all levels of the organization much closer together‚ and enhance their performance. However‚ there seems to be a widely held misconception that
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Organizational culture is the collective behavior of humans who are part of an organization and the meanings that the people attach to their actions. Culture includes the organization values‚ visions‚ norms‚ working language‚ systems‚ beliefs & habits. It is also the pattern of such collective behaviors and assumptions that are thought to new organizational members as a way of perceiving‚ & even thinking and feeling. Organizational culture affects the way people & groups interact with each other
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Defining “Culture” and “Organizational Culture”: From Anthropology to the Office Bruce M. Tharp ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE WHITE PAPER 04.09 ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE WHITE PAPER Defining “Culture” and “Organizational Culture”: From Anthropology to the Office The topic of organizational culture is increasingly understood as a company asset that can be used to increase business performance. While important‚ organizational culture is a slippery concept to concretely define. This paper deals
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INTRODUCTION TO PEOPLE‚ ORGANISATIONS AND MANAGEMENT STUDY SKILLS 658 MUL FOUNDATION OF MARKETING ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE AND DESIGN CULTURE AND LEADERSHIP An Organisation does not have to be big to be called an organisation . An organisation is a social arrangement for achieving a controlled performance in pursuit of collective goals. (Bucharian and Huczynski 2010) “Controlled performance” means setting performance standards‚ measuring actual performance‚ comparing it with the previous
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all wanted to come to America to have freedom and opportunity. Many people of the culture came little to nothing‚ but had big dreams. For example‚ some people would start from the bottom and work hard to end on the top. May business that opened in New York‚ such as restaurants were Greek. They brought their food and ingredients to the American culture to make profits. Furthermore‚ the Greek like owning their own business and to have freedoms to manage it like they wanted by being their own boss. The
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Business and Economics Journal‚ Volume 2010: BEJ-15 1 Empirical Study of the Effect of Conflict on Organizational Performance in Nigeria 1 1 O M Hotepo‚ 2A S S Asokere‚ *I A Abdul-Azeez1‚ 2S S A Ajemunigbohun Department of Business Administration and Management Technology; 2Department of Accounting and Finance; Lagos State University‚ P.M.B. 0001‚ LASU Post Office Ojo‚ Lagos‚ Nigeria *Correspondence to: I A Abdul-Azeez‚ ibforson@yahoo.com Accepted: September 7‚ 2010; Published online:
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The INSEAD Chaired Professor of Ethics and Social Responsibility at INSEAD‚ Boulevard de Constance 77305 Fontainebleau cedex‚ France. Email: craig.smith@insead.edu ** Professor of Business and Marketing at the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame 394 Mendoza College of Business Notre Dame‚ Indiana 46556-5646‚ USA. Email: Patrick.E.Murphy.72@nd.edu A Working Paper is the author’s intellectual property. It is intended as a means to promote research to interested
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A Process for Changing Organizational Culture Kim Cameron Ross School of Business University of Michigan 701 Tappan Street Ann Arbor‚ Michigan 48109 734-615-5247 kim_cameron@umich.edu In Thomas G. Cummings (Ed.) Handbook of Organizational Development‚ (pages 429-445) Thousand Oaks‚ CA: Sage Publishing. A Process for Changing Organizational Culture Kim Cameron University of Michigan Much of the current scholarly literature argues
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INTRODUCTION Culture is the way of life. Societal culture consists of the assumptions‚ beliefs and values acquired and held by the majority of people in a geographical area (Sinha 1991). The word culture derivative of Latin Word ‘Culture’ Steaming “COLERE” means to cultivate. Culture first appeared in the Oxford English dictionary around 1430 it meant “Cultivation” or “tending the soil” based on the Latin culture. In 19th century ‘Culture’ was associated with the phrase “high culture” meaning the
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