When we hear the word ’culture ’‚ what appear on our minds are traditions‚ which have lived and been practiced through the generations of a certain race‚ tribe or people‚ for examples‚ top-spinning and traditional wedding for the Malays. In the following paragraphs‚ I will be explaining what organizational culture actually is‚ as applied to the organizations nowadays. According to R.W. Griffin‚ in his book Management‚ he defines organizational culture as a broad form of culture‚ which comprises of
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Studies in Organizational Culture- Groupon Inc. “Groupon! Get your Groupon! Hot off the presses!” It wasn’t too long ago Groupon Inc. was the darling of Wall Street. Institutional and individual investors alike were anxiously anticipating an opportunity to buy shares of the company dubbed by Fast Company as “the most exciting thing to happen to retail since eBay.” That excitement was mirrored on November 4‚ 2011‚ Groupon’s first day of trading on the New York Stock Exchange‚ as the price sky-rocketed
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Introduction How to measure social culture and organizational culture of one country is an important issue (Miroshnik‚ 2002). Culture can be defined as the way of life of the group of people‚ which includes beliefs‚ art‚ law‚ morals‚ customs‚ and any capabilities and habits acquired by a man as a member of society‚ and enables people to communicate with others‚ provides the knowledge and skill necessary‚ and anticipates how others in society are likely to respond for the actions (Miroshnik‚ 2002)
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1.2.1.29 Organisational Culture. This sub-category describes how an organisation develops a culture and supports behaviours which are consistent with its values‚ and encourage achievement of organisational objectives. Most of the studies which addressed this issue focused on manufacturing companies. For example‚ Harber et al. (1993a) studied a large business enterprise within the electronics industry. They found TQM to be an excellent program to bring about massive change in both social and technological
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CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT STRATEGY JULY 2012 BIS Continuous Improvement Strategy Contents BIS Continuous Improvement Strategy ........................................................................................ 3 Why Continuous Improvement?.................................................................................................... 3 Continuous Improvement has been at the heart of a number of key areas of work.................. 4 Developing customer focus..................
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Knowledge Management and Organizational Culture: Toward a broader perspective on how organizational culture impacts knowledge management. The words knowledge and management are two extremely broad concepts when separated. When the two words come together‚ it speaks of an idea that strives to organize information in a way that produces an advantage for an organization. While anyone would think that harnessing the knowledge of an organization is a positive thing to do‚ there are many who do not
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Cross’ unwavering commitment to members of the U.S. military‚ its veterans and their families continues to grow and develop more than a century after Clara Barton first recruited nurses to support the U.S. Army” (American Red Cross‚ 2014). The culture of the organization is very traditional. The structure of the ARC is of corporate governance. “The governing body of the American Red Cross is the Board of Governors‚ which has all powers of governing and directing‚ and of overseeing the management
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1 Background Organizational culture becomes a competitive advantage of a company that “was found to impact a variety of organizational processes and performance” (Siew & Kelvin‚ 2004‚ p.340). Definition of organizational culture given by Schein (1999) containing basic underlying assumptions which define the deepest‚ the most fundamental level of organizational culture. Assumptions are divides into artifacts and espoused values. In addition to the meaning of organizational culture‚ Robbins and Judge
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the diamond as big as the ritz - That was all. The wind died along the tall grasses of the valley. The dawn and the day resumed their place in a time‚ and the risen sun sent hot waves of yellow mist that made its path bright before it. The leaves laughed in the sun‚ and their laughter shook the trees until each bough was like a girl’s school in fairyland. God had refused to accept the bribe. For another moment John watched the triumph of the day metaphor. Then‚ turning he saw a flutter of brown
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The current issue and full text archive of this journal is available at www.emeraldinsight.com/0969-9988.htm Organizational culture: the case of Turkish construction industry Ela Oney-Yazıcı‚ Heyecan Giritli‚ Gulfer Topcu-Oraz and Emrah Acar Department of Architecture‚ Division of Project and Construction Management‚ Istanbul Technical University‚ Istanbul‚ Turkey Abstract Purpose – The main stimulus of this study is to examine the cultural profile of construction organizations within the context
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