Essays on Schein

Introduction

The globalization of business, as well as the rise in the movement of the workforce across the geographical borders and nations, have significantly increased the diversity in the workplaces. The contemporary organizations come in all shapes and sizes. Most of them now have employees from diverse cultural backgrounds. With the increased workforce diversity, especially within the multicultural organizations, the concept of organizational justice has increasingly become vital. Notably, many researchers continue having an interest in this concept (Colquitt et al., 2001). The HR is required to ensure that organizational justice prevails so as to prevent conflicts in the workplace. ...

Introduction

In the modern day, competition has led organizations to re-evaluate their strategies and identify new approaches to enhance their competitiveness. The need to improve the competitiveness of businesses has to the identification of efficiency improvement measures to enhance efficiency that leads to increased productivity and profitability of the organization. Junction Hotel is strategically located and it has operated for a long period. However, with the changing trends in the business environment, there is an increasing need to enhance their efficiency strategies to enhance their competitiveness in the business environment. Organizations adopt strategic approaches through effective management of human resource ...

Introduction

The primary objective of this report is to analyze the concept of flexible working and psychological contracts. Also, it aims at evaluating the influence of flexible working in an organization. The first part covers literature review of psychological contract and its impacts on business performance. Psychological contract is a notion that the employee and employer have a mutual relationship whereby both have expectations. According to CIPD (2016a) flexible working is whereby the employees have a degree of flexibility on work schedules such as working four days a week, part-time work, job-sharing, and annual hours. Flexible work improves retention and ...

Organizational Culture in the Workplace

The subject of organisational culture has been widely discussed. Despite culture being an abstraction, the forces created in organisational settings and which are derived from culture are very powerful (Schein, 2010). Schein pointed out that there is a need to understand the operation of these forces fewer people become victims to them. To him, cultural forces are very powerful because they operate beyond people’s awareness. He further argued that cultural forces need to be understood not only because of their power but also because its importance in explaining many controversial and frustrating experiences in organisational situations. Also, a ...

Leadership has numerous definitions and dimensions, but I largely view it as the ability of someone to influence other people to willfully and passionately to follow a certain course and achieve some specific objectives. There are several lessons in leadership that can influence me to become a better leader in my professional life. I learned that leaders are not born, but we do make them. To become a good leader, people need to improve themselves and become the best by increasing their ability to be the “best self” (George and Sims, 2010). In this regard, I looked at myself ...

Introduction

Organizations refer to entities or enterprises with distinct goals and aspirations, which operate within strict definitions or boundaries (Senior, 2002). In this perspective, organizational change is a phenomenon that occurs in every organization with a wide operation base. However, the magnitude of change is dependent on the size of the organization or the complexity of operations that the company or an organization engages in, either in products or customers. Moreover, organizational change can also be planned by the organization or unplanned. Unplanned organizational change is a result of external and internal forces that lead to the change of operations ...

Introduction

An organization’s mission and vision help to define its organizational culture. This is because they assist all the stakeholders to become aware of the purpose and values that the organization holds. An organization’s mission and vision therefore call for the development of a strategy that would in the long run assist the organization to achieve its goals and objectives. For such a strategy to be successful, there is a need to develop a strong organizational structure which would in turn lead to a smooth integration of the people within the organization and with the external environment (other ...

Introduction

As with any organization in any industry, health care organizations are also driven by the need for cost effectiveness. However, in addition to this, healthcare organizations must also ensure that the needs of the community and the health care requirements of all members of the community are addressed adequately. As the emphasis on cost control, patient safety, quality of care increases, there is a need for health care organizations to move away from their current organizational models and adopt more dynamic models that are designed with the needs of the patient as the focal point and which also address ...

Root cause analysis

The healthcare system recognizes its first priority as the safety of the patient and the ability to afford the patient groups quality care. The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) has an obligation to ensure that healthcare facilities live to this expectation and one of the methods that have been employed over time to oversee the sustenance of quality and safe care is the requirement that all healthcare facilities regularly conduct root cause analysis of their facility (Chen, Schein & Miller, 2015). The RCA process is based on the need to determine any existing misses and errors that ...

BUSINESS CULTURE REFLECTION

Introduction International business is becoming more and more diverse and mobility is an essential characteristic of not only business organizations, but social environment, where individuals become more exposed to different cultures in their professional and personal lives. Globalization and technology ay significant role in building this diversity in all aspects of the businesses and companies recognize that in order to be successful in their operations, they should be able to differentiate and personalise their approach to doing business, based on the diversity of the regions and countries, where they establish themselves (Davies, 2006). With the above in mind, academic ...

Recommendation

Increasingly complex international business environment makes organization provoke vigorous debates on the role of human resource management and development of the sustainable competitive advantage through human capital and intangible resources. Watkins (2013) that while there is a universal agreement on the fact that concept of organizational culture is known and it plays the crucial role in shaping organizational strategies and behaviors, there is little agreement on what this organizational culture actually is and what it encompasses. Schein (2010) defines organizational culture as a set of values and rituals, which serve as a way to collectively, build a description of ...

Managing Change

Introduction Organizational change has become a significant feature in today’s business environment. According to Burke (2008), the need for change and the demand for organizations to adapt and modify their operations have intensified. In fact, the most prevalent challenge in many organizations has been the need to cope with the rapid change. In a recent study conducted by leadershipIQ.com, a failure to manage the organizational change is one of the top reasons for termination of jobs for many managers (Murphy 2015, para 1). This failure is attributed to the managers’ inability to motivate employees, especially by not articulating ...

The First Crusade was organized in 1096 by the decision of Pope Urban II at the request of Byzantine Emperor Alexius I with the aim of helping the Eastern Christians in the defense of Anatolia (Asia Minor) from the onset of the Seljuks. During the campaign, further objective turned out to be the liberation of the holy city of Jerusalem and the Holy Land from the Muslims. Initially, the Pope`s appeal was addressed only to the French knights, but, later, the Crusade turned into a full-scale military campaign, and its idea spread to all the Christian states of ...

Management history

Introduction Cyber Software Inc. is a software development company that has engaged itself in the development of the security software since its establishment. The CEO of the company is putting his efforts to develop the lively working environment in the company that not only fostered the entrepreneurial culture but also boosted the innovation. Joseph Jackson, the CEO of the company, has been handling the company till today. Cyber Ware software is the popular software developed by the company that can monitor the activity of the hacker and stop them. However, the company’s performance has been dropping since Jackson ...

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 ...

Organization Analysis Part 2

Organization Analysis Part 2 The American Public Human Services Association (APHSA) is a national nonprofit organization that has multiple programs to assist families from different backgrounds to improve in their lives. The organization is concerned with issues such as child adoption, child care, child support, child welfare, disabilities, food stamps and temporary assistances for poor families. The organization functions with many affiliates that include American Association of Welfare Attorney, American Association of Food Stamp Directors, among others. The study will carry out organization analysis to find out how the APHSA organization functions (APHSA, 2016). To fully incorporate the functioning ...

ORGANIZATION BEHAVIOR

Organization Behavior Introduction The culture or behavior of an organization determines the performance of the firm and how it sustains its employees. The organizational behavior is determined by the people working in the organization, the groups in which these people are and how the organization is structured (Stephen 2012). The paper focuses on the Organization behavior and culture of AU Optronics (AUO) which is a global company that was formed in the year 2001 from Acer Display Technology Inc. and Unipac Optoelectronics Corp. The company is the leading manufacturer of TFT-LCD worldwide with operations in Taiwan, Mainland China, Japan, ...