Executive summary In spring 2010‚ New United Motor Manufacturing Inc.‚ a successful joint venture between Toyota Motor Co. and General Motors Co‚ shut down its plant in Fremont‚ California. Over two decades NUMMI was a model manufacturing plant with high quality and productivity‚ exceptional worker’s satisfaction and attendance. What did NUMMI do to change the former GM’s dysfunctional disaster into best plant? This report is going to examine a dramatic change conducted by NUMMI’s leadership
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Prepared by: Ilya Bovkun‚ EPR10-english Essay on the topic: “Corporate culture: help or hindrance” “The only thing of real importance that leaders do is to create and manage culture. If you do not manage culture‚ it manages you‚ and you may not even be aware of the extent to which this is happening.” Edgar Schein‚ professor MIT Sloan School of Management Nowadays‚ in the end of 2011‚ we can make a clear overview of the remarkable events that took place not a long time ago. And though some
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Corporate culture is defined as: "the moral‚ social‚ and behavioral norms of an organization based on the beliefs‚ attitudes‚ and priorities of its members." Every organization has its own unique culture or value set; however‚ most organizations do not consciously try to create a certain culture. The culture of the organization is typically created unconsciously‚ based on the values of the top management or the founders of an organization. Southwest Airlines expends a lot of energy in maintaining
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delivery person who was given the wrong key to a FedEx drop box. So ingrained was the culture of “next-day delivery guarantee” that the delivery person unbolted the box from its base and took it back to the office where it was pried open. The contents were delivered the next day. It is not important whether this folktale is true or not. What is important is that this story illustrates Fedex’s corporate culture: every employee helps in the achievement of FedEx’s reputation of reliable overnight delivery
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Alaska Airline & Corporate Culture A unique cultural characteristic of Alaska Airline would be the benefits they allot their employees. After 90 days of working with Alaska Airline‚ an employee earns benefits which allows him or her to fly anywhere at anytime with 1 other individual. In addition to this‚ the employee is given 6 “buddy passes” each year which allows the employee to give 6 roundtrip tickets to people other than himself or the 1 person he chooses to travel with. The best part
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are caught‚ not taught.” At first‚ this sounded counterintuitive and completely wrong. Seriously‚ I thought‚ values are so important and significant in the life of any family‚ any organization‚ and to any group‚ how could they be left to be casually‚ haphazardly caught? Shouldn’t a person or group be intentional about how it teaches deeply-held values? It seemed careless to leave the communicating of values to something as nonchalant‚ and perhaps accidental‚ as allowing them to be caught.
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Culture is instrumental in shaping an organization and is viewed in through observable artifacts‚ espoused values‚ and shared beliefs of a group (). Observable artifacts are examined through the physical attributes of an organization which potentially include: dress codes‚ awards given‚ acronyms utilized‚ and rituals within the company. The basic assumptions‚ values or beliefs that employees hold shape a company’s behavior and they are the most difficult to change. Recently a topic of ongoing conversation
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“Caught in the Web” This story “Caught in the Web” by January W. Payne is about the problem of internet usage. She says people are getting addicted to the internet to the point where it is affecting their lives. The author said that being on the internet for so long can ruin relationships with a partner‚ or even with their own family. She also mentions the growth in college students with excessive internet usage‚ at least 14% of students said that they “found it hard to stay away from the internet
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Corporate Culture Culture refers to the fundamental values and norms that a group of peoplesuch as an ethnic group‚ a nation‚ a corporation‚ or some other organization or professionholds or aspires to hold. Every culture distinguishes itself from others by the specific ways it prefers to solve certain problems‚ such as those that arise from relationships with other people‚ from the passage of time‚ and in dealing with the external environment. Groups of people have "typical" cultural traits that
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The paper begins with explaining the theoretical foundations by introducing the main concepts; national culture and corporate culture‚ or culture at organizational level. The study conducted by Engelen et al. concentrates on the individualism versus collectivism dimension of national culture and on the strength of the corporate culture. After familiarizing the concepts‚ the paper presents the hypotheses and clarifies how the hypotheses are derived. Next‚ the research conducted to test the hypotheses
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