the combined beliefs, values, ethics, procedures, and atmosphere of an organization. The culture of an organization is often expressed as "the way we do things...
After Raytheon Co. completed a series of mergers, they had to quickly implement a new corporate culture and eliminate duplicate processes while maintaining a focus on the customer. Raytheon produced a customized solution, Raytheon Six Sigma, which integrated knowledge management, cultural development, and successfully included customers and suppliers. Raytheon Six...
Corporate culture isn't something that one can define. It's intangible: a state of mind, a feeling, a collective consciousness that's infused in a business and its employees. If one were to ask 20 CEOs to define their corporate cultures, the person would get 20 different responses. The important thing isn't...
There are numerous direct benefits to either not cutting staff or, if cuts must be made, to minimizing them. And if cuts are necessary, highly selective surgical cuts should be utilized wherever possible to remove only under-performing or marginal employees rather than implementing massive across-the-board cuts. In the long term,...
Dr. Kerry Sulkowicz, founder and principal of the Boswell Group, shares his insight about the different personalities of corporations. Boswell Group is a consulting firm that specializes in the psychology of business.
Corporate Culture Redefined: How to Navigate Mergersget back to work!Hey folks it's is work. There should be no question as to what is correct regarding religion in the workplace, unless you work for a religous organization.Now get back to work!
DaimlerChrysler AG may soon be just Daimler AG, signaling a separation from the company's pre-Cerberus days -- before the private equity firm bought the U.S. Chrysler division for $6 billion -- and its future as a company not dependent on "the volatile North American market." In the wake of so many failed mergers, analysts are wondering why companies keep...
Do you dread Monday mornings, cringing at the prospect of returning to a job you hate, feeling tired, stressed, and unmotivated just thinking about it? If you don’t find joy or satisfaction in your work, it may be time to quit—after thinking it through. Even if you’re tempted to hand...
Gerhard Gschwandtner, founder and publisher of Selling Power magazine, interviews Matt Ferguson, the CEO of CareerBuilder.com about the tools needed to create a successful corporate culture.
The key to creating a consistent corporate culture across multiple locations is maintaining the critical balance between a strong corporate culture and local cultural differences. The report presented in this paper examines the changing roles the Human Resource HR function plays in a globally competitive marketplace and identifies the challenges...
The author has met and spoken with many SMEs in the author's personal experience, it is generally viewed by small to medium sized business owners that branding is an external and cynically manipulative activity adopted only by larger and wealthier firms for large corporate positioning. There is also a common...
The purpose of the study presented in this paper is to examine whether an organisation's corporate culture has an impact on the expatriate selection strategies including policies and criteria used in MultiNational Corporations MNCs. In an exploratory study conducted in this paper, sixty-seven recruitment and selection professionals (such as human...
Money talks, or so the old saying goes, which may explain why the Securities and Exchange Commission has recently been meting out increasingly larger civil penalties for corporate malfeasance and accounting irregularities. But it?s not only the SEC that wants to reach into the pockets of individuals accused of...
This paper explores factors important in the study and examination of corporate culture and change. The particular focus is on the technological methods used to conduct a study of accessible technology and corporate culture at Microsoft Corporation. Reasons for particular approaches are explained. Advantages and challenges of emerging technologies that...
The purpose of this executive white paper is to help one to reflect on the knowledge management strategy within one's organization and consider where improvements can be made. True knowledge management is not the "theme of the month" or the "flavor of the week", it is a strategy for helping...
The employment relations today are not confined to traditional issues of mere better working conditions and timely payment of salary etc. Rather the issues like empowerment, effectiveness, retention, development, managing cross-cultural diversity, management of gender issues, organisational learning, and change management etc. have emerged as contemporary challenges leading to new...
For the past few years, the business world has suffered from "Growing pains" and the corporate community is certainly enduring its share of turbulence and disorder. Among the many causative issues, mergers and downsizing are creating conflicts over strategies, roles and responsibilities, and corporate culture clashes. The current shift to...
In this paper, the management of corporate culture is explored through a series of reflections upon literature that has fashioned and addressed this field. Specifically, the paper considers the motivation, key elements and continuing relevance of the critique made in "Strength is Ignorance; Slavery is Freedom" where, by pointing to...
The subject of Integrated Management Systems in terms of quality, environmental and occupational health and safety management has become of increasing interest to researchers and business alike during the last many years or so. This research was based on a review of the various models of integration found in the...
Groups are formed when two or more people come together and work in cohesion towards attainment of common goals and objectives. The group becomes a team when the individual members develop complimentary skills and develop interdependency towards attainment of the common goal. Corporate culture is the set of values, beliefs,...
Corporate culture refers to the set of values, beliefs, and behavioral dynamics existing in an organization. It is unique for a particular organization. The paper examines the role of corporate culture in managing change in organizations. The change needs to be fully institutionalized in the organization for its successful implementation....
