Lexington School District One is a large organization with thirty-three schools, an Information Technology office, Student Services, Food 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, and the norms of the behavior of the employees within the office (UMUC, n.d.).…
Organizational Culture: “It’s the culture that creates the passion to succeed” C.Beddoe. Non-unionized workforce, re-labeling tasks and responsibilities, creating the Pro-Active Communication team – association that allowed engaging employees in management decision making and problem solving, establishing of a “vision of the future” for the employees and inspiring to follow it; job satisfaction, organizational commitment, recognition and rewards , training and coaching, place “where people wanted to manage themselves”, bottom-up management style, “set some standards and expectations, but don’t interfere in how people do their jobs”, lead by example ( “actions of executives”) , focus on empowerment and trust, “ opportunity culture”, teamwork.…
The culture of the United States, beginning in the late nineteenth centuries and into today, has always been one of great progress and also great tragedy. We have evolved from a nation with few inhabitants, mainly Native Americans, to a nation that has a profound influence on the rest of the world. With the rest of the world going through a revolutionary phase, the United States grew into the leader of the pack that spearheaded progress into the future. The United States' economic and entertainment industries have installed a sense of competitive lifestyle which can be viewed every weekend with the help of sporting events.…
* Control (Hierarchy) Culture – Highly formal, predictable and structured environment, govern by set of rules and procedures. High level of bureaucracy and regulations provides stability but at the same time weakens the employees. Strong emphasis on efficiency, scheduling, cost monitoring, security. Long-term goals orientated (banking, law)…
In the workplace there are many different aspects of the organization. Some of the aspects of an organization are dress and language, how communication flows, conflict management and organizational policies. This paper will discuss these aspects of the company I work for and define what the different cultures are. These examples contribute to the overall functionality of an organization. Every organization has these aspects within their organization in order to function properly.…
Medical records and their contents have been an important issue concerning privacy for physicians and their patients. A health care reform bill which passed legislation in 1996 is known as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) had a new rule put into place in 2000, which requires health care physicians and insurance providers to put into place new procedures that would guard patient health information ("Patient Privacy and Confidentiality", 2013).…
There seems to be many elements that show that there is a disturbance in the corporate culture. Jasper saw an importance in how each person respected their fellow workers which suggests that there is an involvement culture, though the employee that covertly spied into another’s emails suggest suspicion in the culture. The act of spying can be seen as being aggressive, which is one of the traits in a competitive culture. The lack of leadership in the involvement culture may allow the corporate culture to lean towards the competitive type of culture.…
Lustig, M. W., & Koester, J. (2006). Intercultural Competence: Interpersonal Communication across Cultures. Retrieved from https://ecampus.phoenix.edu/content/eBookLibrary2/content/TOC.aspx?assetdataid=25fb9b6a-472f-4da2-a6e3-db72e67e7b7a&assetmetaid=d08dcbf2-c5e6-49dd-bb20-5d7507e7fe1e.…
The organization that is the subject of this paper is Google. Even though Google is a worldwide organization it maintains a small organization feel. This is reflected in the organizational culture of Google. Google has various cafeterias where the employees eat together no matter what their position in the organization. Another part of the culture at Google is the commitment to innovation as an espoused value. It is believed that this is dependent upon the employees being comfortable in sharing their ideas and opinions. There is also access to management not common in a large organization like Google. This includes access to the founders of Google, Larry Page and Sergey Brin. The dress code is also casual. Gyms are available where employees can go and take dance classes, work out or do yoga. Foosball, ping pong, pianos, and various video games are also available at the office complex. Employees share yurts, cubicles, and huddle rooms instead of solo offices. In fact there are very few solo offices at Google (Google, n.d.).…
No matter how hard we try, or how much we study, it is pretty much impossible to become an expert on all the world’s cultures. It is possible however, to be enlightened on a few cultures through some effort and understanding. That is just what we did, through interviewing three people who were raised in cultures different from ours. The following are results from what we learned about different cultural dimensions.…
In the health care field patient privacy and confidentiality are of the highest importance. Physicians need to maintain confidentiality and protect their patients’ privacy to keep the level of trust that is needed to provide efficient health care. Patients need to trust that their private health information will be kept confidential before they will disclose important health information to their physician. Because of this importance in 1996 Congress passed the Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). HIPAA has put laws and regulations in place to protect patient privacy and confidentiality. Despite HIPAA and its laws and regulations, maintaining patient confidentiality at all times in certain health care settings is not easy. One health care setting that is facing issues with patient confidentiality is psychosomatic medicine. In the article by Psychosomatics, Confidentiality in the Age of HIPAA: A Challenge for Psychosomatic Medicine it discusses the administrative issues relating to patient confidentiality. I will be discussing the issue and the population affected any potential solutions and how the solution is supported, the ethical and legal issues related to this administrative issue, and any managerial responsibilities associated with the issue.…
The significance of developing ethical alertness is being able to handle confidential data, boosted education, and conversations regarding these problems should happen within the company to give pessimistic opinions of the coworkers and this could assist them to get through the conversation, conservative views, and moral instruction, this could take along groundbreaking ways for coworkers and other to efficiently to reply hard data, and this potentially could come into view.…
Turban, E., Rainer, R. K., & Potter, R. E. (2003). Introduction to Information Technology Chapter 13: Strategic Systems and Reorganization. Retrieved from https://ecampus.phoenix.edu/content/eBookLibrary2/content/eReader.aspx.…
How an organization is structured has enormous consequences not only for the success of its business but, also, for the success of its employees.…
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