Ldr/ 531 Week 6
Leadership in Action
Josh Nessa
LDR/531
January 14, 2011
Dr. Taylor
Leadership in Action
As a new employee for Smith and Facmouth, a teleshopping and mail order company, my job is to help eliminate the cliques and implement a restructuring strategy that can improve the employee’s culture and empower them. The company’s main figureheads are the Logistics Manager, Project Manager, and Marketing Manager. These three individuals have different initial emotions towards me and both influence and are influenced by the web development team and the logistics team. My challenge is to choose the appropriate figure head as an ally to help gain the respect of the team and help push down my new strategy to promote synergy and growth within the company.
Analysis
Methods of Control The current departmental and organizational cultures involve specific closed cliques inside respective teams. The project manager has a bidirectional relationship with the web development team and is strongly influenced by the logistics manager and team who also respect him. The marketing manager mainly interacts with me. Upon my initial arrival, all members were resistant to change and were threatened by my new position and task. It disrupted their organizational culture. According to Robbins and Judge (2007) organizational culture “refers to a system of shared meaning held by members that distinguishes the organization from other organizations” (p. 573). This culture is comprised of characteristics that the organization values. Robbins and Judge offer seven distinct characteristics that are valued. For this simulation the two most important characteristics that contribute to the culture is outcome orientation and stability. Outcome orientation involves the degree that management puts the focus on the outcome results instead of the technique to achieve outcomes and stability is the desire of an organization to maintain the status quo in contrast to growth (Robbins and
Josh Nessa
LDR/531
January 14, 2011
Dr. Taylor
Leadership in Action
As a new employee for Smith and Facmouth, a teleshopping and mail order company, my job is to help eliminate the cliques and implement a restructuring strategy that can improve the employee’s culture and empower them. The company’s main figureheads are the Logistics Manager, Project Manager, and Marketing Manager. These three individuals have different initial emotions towards me and both influence and are influenced by the web development team and the logistics team. My challenge is to choose the appropriate figure head as an ally to help gain the respect of the team and help push down my new strategy to promote synergy and growth within the company.
Analysis
Methods of Control The current departmental and organizational cultures involve specific closed cliques inside respective teams. The project manager has a bidirectional relationship with the web development team and is strongly influenced by the logistics manager and team who also respect him. The marketing manager mainly interacts with me. Upon my initial arrival, all members were resistant to change and were threatened by my new position and task. It disrupted their organizational culture. According to Robbins and Judge (2007) organizational culture “refers to a system of shared meaning held by members that distinguishes the organization from other organizations” (p. 573). This culture is comprised of characteristics that the organization values. Robbins and Judge offer seven distinct characteristics that are valued. For this simulation the two most important characteristics that contribute to the culture is outcome orientation and stability. Outcome orientation involves the degree that management puts the focus on the outcome results instead of the technique to achieve outcomes and stability is the desire of an organization to maintain the status quo in contrast to growth (Robbins and