oganizational behavior
Organizational Behavior
1. What impresses you about this company? Is it well-managed? To what extent does the management style match what business schools tell you about 'how to manage'?
According to our opinion this company look like a great place to work, it’s innovative, the work environment is supportive of individual decisions. The company has managed to grow and get big by implementing the principles of small organization. Another thing that impresses us is company’s surprising track record of growth, and very good profitability. The company gives people lots of responsibility and decision making process, by its approach to people management sponsor program, the process on the personal growth and development of people and the lattice structure.
2. How successful was Bill Gore in defining the business, developing a strategic vision, and crafting a strategy to achieve performance objectives?
We can see that Bill Gore’s management style was idealistic, and the mission of the company is serving high-performance and high value products to people who would like to use the services. Bill defined his business as a company that manufactured products to fit the needs of his users. On the other hand, he didn’t craft a strategy. It came up from the duration of trial and error. At last we can say that strategic decisions were decentralized.
3. What key traits define the corporate culture at W.L. Gore? In what ways has the culture contributed to the success of the company?
The key traits that define the corportate culture of W. L. Gore include:
Four guiding principles: fairness, freedom, commitment and discretion.
Sponsor program
The lattice structure: few layers of management, the role of leadership, the de-centralizationof decision making.
The stress placed on individual growth and development.
The culture is appealing to people who are self-starters, people who are good in operating in unstructured environments.
The culture contributed in a
1. What impresses you about this company? Is it well-managed? To what extent does the management style match what business schools tell you about 'how to manage'?
According to our opinion this company look like a great place to work, it’s innovative, the work environment is supportive of individual decisions. The company has managed to grow and get big by implementing the principles of small organization. Another thing that impresses us is company’s surprising track record of growth, and very good profitability. The company gives people lots of responsibility and decision making process, by its approach to people management sponsor program, the process on the personal growth and development of people and the lattice structure.
2. How successful was Bill Gore in defining the business, developing a strategic vision, and crafting a strategy to achieve performance objectives?
We can see that Bill Gore’s management style was idealistic, and the mission of the company is serving high-performance and high value products to people who would like to use the services. Bill defined his business as a company that manufactured products to fit the needs of his users. On the other hand, he didn’t craft a strategy. It came up from the duration of trial and error. At last we can say that strategic decisions were decentralized.
3. What key traits define the corporate culture at W.L. Gore? In what ways has the culture contributed to the success of the company?
The key traits that define the corportate culture of W. L. Gore include:
Four guiding principles: fairness, freedom, commitment and discretion.
Sponsor program
The lattice structure: few layers of management, the role of leadership, the de-centralizationof decision making.
The stress placed on individual growth and development.
The culture is appealing to people who are self-starters, people who are good in operating in unstructured environments.
The culture contributed in a