Essays on Organizational Values

Introduction

When it comes to discussing about values, they should be reported to different levels: individual, organizational or national, as at each level there are different values that prevail (Clothier, 2011). In the case of United States of America, in 2010, the top three most values prevailing individual values were family, caring and honesty customer satisfaction and continuous improvement, the top organizational values were ethics and continuous learning, and the most representative national values were bureaucracy, corruption and blame (Clothier, 2010). While Bellah et al. (2007) indicate that the most important political and philosophical principles of the USA are republicanism, ...

Five Key Organizational Values

The core five organizational values include teamwork, honesty, commitment, customer service, and professionalism. Teamwork involves listening to as well as respecting each other as they work together towards a common beneficial result. Through honesty, it is possible to encourage openness and honesty in everything that the organization does in addition to encouraging integrity all the time (Stone & Klein, 2015). When it comes to commitment, the organization is responsible for ensuring that all timelines met, unless if there are urgent circumstances. Because of this, the organization will be responsible for creating a new timeline and the agreed need of the ...

Personal value as a leader

Personal value as a leader

Identifying and clarifying my personal and professional values

Accountability: as a leader, one is supposed to be accountable for their actions and decisions. These are the facts and conditions that make a leader responsible and accountable for their actions and characters.

Authenticity: transparency and reality are the key factors that ensure a leader trustworthy.

Integrity: it is personal quality to uphold ethical, moral and principles as a leader. It is moral uprightness.

Vision and Missions: These personal values help in setting leadership goals, leadership development, and change.

Intentionality: The value of intentionality is developed through the setting plan, strategy, and action in setting an intentional and genuine effort of change. It is considered as deliberate and purposive effort to change.

What are my priorities?

My priorities are integrity, accountability, and authenticity. These values are ...

Introduction

All organizations be it public or private strive to survive to progress and grow. To achieve this goal, organizations may need to change their physical infrastructure or incorporate some changes in their routine operations. These changes have always been viewed a top-down approach that is mostly induced by managers (Samuel, 2013). Due to this reason, organizational change theory has been a very useful tool for management practice. There are various and multiple information sources available today on change theories to help managers manage change in organizations. However, despite the vast amount of literature involving change management available today and ...

Post Crisis Change Management in Business Organizations

Business Organizations are often confronted by situations which induce their owners to re- examine their policies and processes. These situations are termed as crisis and needs reformulation of organizational processes, in absence of which the existence of the organization may be threatened. These situations may erupt from failure to anticipate the internal and external consequences from economic, political, ethical and technological changes related to organizational activities. Even if they are anticipated, crisis may not be altogether averted; only it helps in formulating contingency plans that are used to address post crisis situation and calls for initiating changes in the ...

A Study on the differences between Maersk and Citigroup in IHRM practices

Globalization of business operations and the emerging issues have necessitated that business organizations reformulate their management policies to resolve the problems arising out of a diverse cultural atmosphere. Business destinations in developing countries offer a multitude of opportunities but organizations have to prepare themselves well to address the differences in business factors influencing success. These factors may be related to political, economic, cultural or legal environment and affect the functions of organizations. One of the organizational functions affected seriously by the diverse factors is that of International Human Resource Management (IHRM) and multinationals formulate different policies to confront the ...

Introduction

The phenomenon of leadership is one of the most broadly discussed in management-related scholarship. Various theories and models are designed in order to develop an understanding of the scope of leadership as a concept and the traits, necessary for an individual to exhibit strong leadership and inspire followers. In this regard, a crucial question remains whether leadership can be learnt in case an individual does not have a natural disposition to leading. In the end of the 19th century particularly the ‘Great Man’ theory, emphasizing one’s intrinsic ability to lead followers, was the major approach to leadership, logically ...

INDIVIDUAL ESSAY

Introduction The paper is intended to evaluate the importance of ethical decision making and to critically discuss the factors that affect the choice of an individual within the company (Ferrell & Fraedrich, 2016; Jones, 1991). Most of the managers and managements within the firms and organizations are now considering the importance of ethics in their practices and decision making (Samson & Draft, 2011). Either it is business firms, business people or government; all are concerned about the ethics. Based on the scenario that Radax is the company of the manager’s best friend, yet the bids of the company are not ...

Whole Foods Market® is an American grocery chain that is widely associated with healthy eating, expensive products, and gourmet food options. Under the page titled “Our Core Values,” the Whole Foods website lists the eight organizational values that underpin the company culture. The first and (presumably) most important value is Whole Foods’ dedication to selling “the highest quality natural and organic products available” (“Our Core Values,”2016). Its other corporate values include customer and employee satisfaction, wealth creation and community outreach, environmental stewardship, win-win business partnerships, and “healthy eating education.” On the same webpage, one may also find a “ ...

Generalized Theories and Concepts to be used in the Case Study

Some of the key topics learned in this week’s lecture with reference to the case study of Pace (manufacturer of set-top boxes) are briefly defined and explained as follows: Culture: Hofstede, G. H. (1991) defines culture as the “collective programming of mind” that provides a base for the distinction between different cultures and ethnic groups. The role of Culture in Organizations: It helps employees to be aware of organizational goals and objectives and make their efforts aligned to those objectives. It directs employees to develop certain cultural values such as hard work, flexibility, loyalty, commitment, and excellence in ...

Summary

Apple is a technology multinational corporation headquartered in California that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics all over the world. Nokia is a company related to communication and information technology and headquartered in Finland. Both companies are leaders that managed complexity, ambiguity, and change within their organizations but results achieved prove to be beneficial for Apple . Nokia leadership lacks in efficiently applying their relevant strategies that could provide expected outcomes. There are many factors including a collection of information, quick response, analyzing risks, and preparation of alternative strategies that resulted in the success of Apple. Nokia failed to obtain ...