Organizational Transformation

Running head: Organizational Transformation

Organizational Transformation
University of Phoenix

Leadership Research
Today's business world is a fast-paced, complex environment that has many ways to achieve success. Many corporations and their leaders have fostered innovative environments for employees to excel in. There are various avenues a corporation or leader can take to improve product quality, customer satisfaction, employee satisfaction, and the bottom line. Corporations use different leadership styles along with promoting a solid corporate culture for employees.
Leadership styles
    There are many different styles of leadership. Each company and situation dictates the types of leadership that are formed. Some companies prefer a pyramid hierarchical approach while others lean towards a more flattened hierarchical approach. Our team researched and evaluated several companies to identify some practices utilized within various organizational cultures.
    Google is a company that fosters a tight teamwork based philosophy that relies upon open communication. This style closely relates to the participative style of leadership. Participative leadership involves employees in the decision-making process (McShane & Von Glinow, 2005). Google's management accomplishes this by holding face-to-face meetings, current status emails, and encouraging creative thought. By allowing employees to play an active role in the company's leadership, resulting in maximized creativity.
    Ford Motor Corporation has struggled for years with leaders who showed more concern with their own success rather than that of the company. The past 10 years have given way to many changes concerning managerial goals. Ford has taken steps to create an atmosphere that promotes the teamwork and collaboration of managers. Ford exhibits more of a team-based atmosphere in which groups (accounting, IT, and management) work closely together and divulge important information to each other.... [continues]

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