Leaders and Organizational Culture There are leaders and there are followers‚ consequently the composition of most of the human race. There have been leaders since the beginning of time‚ thus leadership is an extremely important element in our society‚ for without leaders‚ people would be without direction‚ confused‚ and unmotivated. However‚ just because one finds his or herself in a leadership role‚ does not mean he or she is an effective leader or a leader that can create and maintain a healthy
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Observable Aspects of Organizational Culture Samuel Spetnagel University of Phoenix MGT 331: Management: Organizational Behavior Michael Borden‚ Ph.D. June 3‚ 2006 Organizational Culture refers to the values‚ beliefs and customs of an organization. Whereas Organizational structure is relatively easy to draw and describe‚ organizational culture is less tangible. The organizational culture at Kenworth is different from many other companies; this is because of the geographical location of the
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“With increasing globalization‚ organizational culture will be more important than national culture”. Discuss and critically evaluate this statement. As our world becomes increasingly globalized‚ a term used by marketing guru Theodore Levitt to depict extensive developments and advancements in communications and technology‚ resulting in an emerging worldwide cultural homogeneity (N. Asgary and A. Walle‚ 2002‚ The Cultural Impact of Globalization: Economic Activity and Social). With the diversification
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Running Head: POLISH ETHNICITY AND DISCRIMINATION Polish Ethnicity and Discrimination Bobbie Walker Axia College at University of Phoenix Polish Ethnicity and Discrimination I was born to parents who come from an extensively varied ethnic background‚ most of which consists of European descent. However‚ my parents have a large amount of Polish background coming from both of their sides of the family. Nearly all that I recall comes from many stories and conversations that were
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Organizational culture gives vision as to what is happening in the company as well as expectations on how everyone should behave (Kinicki & Williams‚ 2013). Verizon has a market culture that creates high profits and financial growth through competitiveness and customer focus. The company has used several mechanisms in order to create its current organizational culture. Verizon has used role modeling‚ training‚ coaching‚ organizational goals and performance criteria‚ measurable and controllable activities
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The Organizational Culture Inventory (OCI) is where people describe the behaviors and expectations that make up prevailing cultures of their organizations. This is an approach for mapping organizational cultures developed by Human Synergistics. (P.29 Organizational Behavior) The OCI is a system of beliefs and values that shape the attitudes of members‚ guides their behaviors at work‚ and influences their performance goals and aspirations. The OCI maps use these results to describe three alternatives
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Services‚ Communications‚ Maintenance and many more departments. In this assignment‚ the Accounting office of Fiscal Services will be analyzed as a Hierarchy organizational type‚ as mentioned in the Organizational Culture Assessment Instrument (Jennifer Bellot‚ 2011)‚ the core cultural elements of artifacts‚ values‚ and assumptions‚ and how the culture impacts the behavior of the organization through the ideologies of the beliefs of how things work‚ the values showing that professionalism is worth having
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Organizational Culture and Personal Values Development XXXX XXXXX Florida Abstract Job satisfaction and job performance are interrelated topics‚ which are derived from individual personal values‚ (Iaffaldano & Muchinsky‚ 1985). Organizations can use specific processes to shape employee values‚ which will reflect the desired work culture of the organization. The development of values will shape the culture of an organization and increase job satisfaction and job performance
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Hofstede’s dimensions of national culture Hofstede distinguished five dimensions of national culture: Power Distance (PDI)‚ Individualism/Collectivism (IDV)‚ Masculinity/Femininity (MAS)‚ Uncertainty Avoidance (UAI)‚ and Long-Term versus Short-Term Orientation (LTO). For those readers who are unfamiliar with his dimensional model‚ a short description follows. The dimensions are measured on index scales from 0 to 100‚ although some countries may have scores above 100 on certain dimensions because
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and the character is adored by youngsters all over the world. Disney also own14 licensed theme parks across the globe. It also operates and owns many other television networks such as Disney channel‚ ESPN‚ ABC family and many more. The two organizational culture elements practiced by the Walt Disney Company People orientation: is the extent to which the decisions made by the management effects on people in the organization. Disney can be considered as a company with high people orientation because
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