Organizational culture influences many aspects of work life. Workplace cultures that are grounded in strong and formally articulated values and modes of behavior define an organization. Well-communicated values influence employee behavior and drive how employees relate with all stakeholders within the organizationfrom co-workers‚ management and members of the board to clients‚ shareholders and the community at large. When organizations seek to change their culture‚ HRas change agent and educator
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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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2012 Case Study Integrating McDonald’s Business‚ Human Resource‚ and Staffing Strategies People are McDonald’s most important asset. The company’s success depends on the satisfaction of its customers‚ which begins with workers who have the attitudes and abilities required to work efficiently and provide good customer service. To execute its growth strategy‚ McDonald’s has identified people as one of its three global corporate strategies. McDonald’s claims that as an employer‚ it wants
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Organizational culture Since there are so many other competitors suddenly appear on the horizon‚ and Samsung have to create a lot of new creativity to face all the compete‚ they have to create their new organization culture. The new theme of corporate culture is “Creative”‚ to building a creative corporate culture‚ Samsung have to set a few characteristics to put into practice. Based on the research‚ Samsung adopting a program which is “Flexible Time” tp maximize employee creativity and another
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The Relationship between Organizational Learning and the Learning Organization Introduction During these years‚ there has been an increased trend toward emphasizing on the importance of learning in organizational management‚ due to the managers were told that the economy has turned into a knowledge economy (Drucker‚ 1993 cited in Berends et. al‚ 2003)‚ and that knowledge and learning “are of prime importance for creating and sustaining competitive advantage”(Nonaka‚ 1994 cited in Berends et
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In what way organizational culture is applied to shape values of workers associated to work performance without acceptable regards for legal and ethical consequences will be covered in this paper. Firstly‚ according to Dumitru Constantinescu‚ organizational culture is a “system of common rules‚ beliefs‚ values and expectations that bind together an organization’s employees‚ creating shared meanings among them” (Constantinescu‚ 2008). It is the norms‚ habits and customs that characterize the organization’s
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Organizational Culture Huawei launched its “Huawei Basic Law” in 1998. This law makes every details into formal regulations on the basis of summing up its own development experience. It aims to make Huawei’s development plan and to determine Huawei ’s second pioneering concepts‚ strategies‚ principles and basic policies. Huawei ’s corporate culture embodies its "core values." Huawei ’s Basic Law" clearly stated its core values which are the pursuits of the following aspect: customers in the
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ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE Each person has more or less lasting and fixed traits that help predict their attitudes and behaviors. Organizations also have personalities‚ which are referred to as “cultures.” Organizational cultures govern how that organization’s members behave. Organizational Culture is defined as a system of shared meaning held by members that distinguishes the organization from other organizations. There are seven primary characteristics that capture the essence of an organization’s
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Three general types of organizational culture—constructive‚ passive-defensive‚ aggressive-defensive: The organizational cultural inventory measures 12 sets of normative beliefs or shared behavioral expectations associated with three general types of cultures‚ Constructive‚ Passive-Defensive‚ and Aggressive-Defensive. Constructive cultures—in which members are encouraged to interact with others and approach tasks in ways that will help them meet their higher-order satisfaction needs‚ are characterized
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Organizational Culture & Innovation Author: Name of Institution: Abstract Organizational culture entails a pattern of behavior that an organization or its member has‚ consistent with the ideals of that organization. Organizational culture can at times become a liability when it becomes a hindrance to change and improvement. The norms and the values that members of the organization internalize can lead them to resist change. This is especially so when that change seems to be in conflict
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