Environment The Organization–Environment Relationship Environmental Uncertainty Adapting to the Environment The Internal Environment: Corporate Culture Symbols Stories Heroes Slogans Ceremonies Environment and Culture Adaptive Cultures Types of Cultures New Manager Self-Test: Cultural Preference Shaping Corporate Culture for Innovative Response Managing the High-Performance Culture Cultural Leadership Learning Outcomes Chapter Outline © GE T TY IMAGES/DIGITAL VISION pt2 After studying this chapter‚ you
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Case 2.1: Organizational Culture: Life or Death Questions: 1. What values appear to be driving the doctors and nurses in the hospitals to treat heart attack patients? From the case study‚ the eleven hospitals utilize 90 minutes or less to deliver therapy in order to restore blood flow to heart attack patients. The followings are the values that appear to drive the doctors and nurses in the hospitals to treat the heart attack patients: (a) The hospitals are well organized‚ they have ability to
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What is Corporate Social Responsibility and how could this influence the organizational behavior of “BreadTalk”? Corporate Social Responsibility refers to a company’s sense of responsibility towards the community and environment in which it operates. Companies express this citizenship through their waste and pollution reduction processes‚ by contributing educational and social programs‚ and by earning adequate returns on the employed resources. CSR is also considered as a strategy to create‚ develop
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managers a framework which allows comparisons between cultures which is useful in predicting behaviour and reactions of different cultural groups. However‚ with globalisation criticisms of the comparative models have become more pronounced. Cultures do not signify a nation and today’s multi-national corporations do belong to a specific country or culture. The comparative model uses nation state as a unit of analysing cultures and assumes that a culture is contained with the geographical boundaries
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Has Jim Adamson been successful in changing the corporate culture at Advantica? I believe that Jim Adamson has been successful in changing the corporate culture at Advantica due to his strong commitment to change. The management team devised a four-part strategy to introduce culture diversity to the company. This four-part strategy included steps designed‚ "to loosen up the hierarchical environment; make diversity a performance criterion for all managers; require the entire staff to attend workshops
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a verb synonymous with Internet search (“Google me. I’m a pretty big deal.”). A behind the scenes look at the corporate culture driving this company will reveal how Google has managed to gain such coveted permanence in daily life‚ how it will manage to stay in its place as the top search engine‚ and how it will maintain its relevance in the technology market. One definition of culture from Merriam-Webster Online (2010) is “the set of shared attitudes‚ values‚ goals‚ and practices that characterizes
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Midterm Exam #2As the current CEO of Coca-Cola‚ I will pursue the strategy of localization‚ and there are several reasons below. First of all‚ because each country has its own culinary culture‚ Coca-Cola needs to adapt to a variety of culinary culture to increase their sales. Unlike products like cell phones or laptops which can become the best products as long as they are most advanced and practical‚ there is no best beverage because it’s really hard to identify. It means that Coca-Cola should
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Question 1 Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is going beyond compliance to the law. It is an obligation for a business to pursue long term goals that are good for society and it is about how a company manages its business to produce an overall positive impact on society. The triple bottom line of CSR encompasses three pillars‚ namely people‚ planet and profit. It encapsulates an extended array of components that measure that organisation’s performance‚ which are social‚ environmental and financial
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CORPORATE CULTURE AND THE INDIAN SOFTWARE INDUSTRY Introduction This article tries to explain the concept of corporate culture in general‚ its effects on the performance of employees in an organization. It then dwells on the specifics of the Indian software industry and then goes on to find out how organizational culture affects the performance of the software industry giving examples of specific software companies. Understanding and assessing your organization’s culture can mean the difference
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Assessing Delta Air Lines Corporate Culture This paper will discuss the corporate culture of Delta Air Lines‚ Inc. The team agreed that assessing Delta’s corporate culture would definitely be a learning experience. Delta Air Lines‚ Inc. provides air transportation for passengers and freight throughout the United States and around the world. As of February 1‚ 2006‚ Delta (including its wholly owned subsidiaries‚ Atlantic Southeast Airlines‚ Inc. and Comair‚ Inc.) serves 244 domestic cities in 46
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