Essays on Corporate Culture

Verizon

Verizon has an Entrepreneurial Culture as its foundation. Ivan Seidenberg started out as a cable splicer in New York climbing telephone poles before he climbed up to his position as Chairman and CEO. Now he wants to retire and leave a legacy that will keep Verizon thriving in the years to come. In order to do that he needs to leave a legacy for his successor to follow. Therefore, he needs to unite the company with a strong corporate culture. This must extend across all departments including their acquisitions. Entrepreneurs know their best was good for today; then promise

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Question 1

The role of the head offices is essential for a Multinational Companies to achieve strategic success in the cross-market integration. The head offices are the places where the almost all significant functions of the organization are harmonized. Therefore, the head offices provide environment where the full responsibilities of business activities are coordinated and managed. The head office enables the managers to formulate and coordinate policies that can be applied to both international and local operations. As a result, the head office provides specific strategies that can help the MNC to meet their objectives and hence achieve strategic success. The

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Introduction

The success of any business in this century relies on the strength and uniqueness of its business strategy. A company’s corporate culture determines the way it manages its business arms such as human resource, sales and marketing and finance. Common aspects of corporate culture include the business environment, corporate values, rites & rituals and the organizational culture. Every company runs its operations on the basis of a certain culture that is unique to the organization. Companies whose management and employees clearly understand and abide by the company’s culture often succeed. In such companies, all stakeholders perform their duties

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While organizational structure refers to the makeup of positions, responsibilities and power in a company, the design is the strategy employed to realize its goals. In a sum, structure is about long term plans as opposed to organizing. It must be understood that creating an organizational structure is a complex process that takes time and tedious work. Perhaps one of the biggest challenges in creating an organizational link in a company is the tasking duty of creating a highly organized system of supervision. The creation of supervisory roles enables the upper management positions to have the ability to oversee

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Q1. What are the strengths and weaknesses of SLT’s corporate culture in terms of communications as described in the case?
Sweet Leaf Tea Company has been commonly praised as a fast growing company in the beverage sector after having gained a lot of dominance in the industry within a short period of time. This would be attributed to its peculiar corporate culture which ensures the development of an intense relationship with its clients. One element that has helped to promote the fast growth of this company is due to the communication strategy that is deeply entrenched in the

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1.) O’Reilly, Chatman and Caldwell (1991) identify many values used in describing organizational culture in their attempts to determine the validity of assessing person-organization fit. Person-organization fit is defined as the satisfaction that comes from “thesimilarity between an individual’s self-concept and his or her image of an organization” (p. 489). When an employee has values and perceptions of him or herself that matches the organization’s values and perceptions, more positive outcomes can be found. Using a quantitative assessment of organizational culture called the Organizational Culture Profile (OCP), the researchers compare organizational culture value statements (e.g. stability,

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