Using Organizational Culture to Resolve Business Challenges

Using Organizational Culture to Resolve Business Challenges
Author: Reyes Ruiz, Gerardo
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2023-08-29
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1668465698

Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) face numerous challenges in today's ever-changing business landscape, including excessive bureaucracy, limited government support, and difficulties accessing specialized personnel and cutting-edge technology. These obstacles have been further exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, pushing SMEs to the brink and requiring innovative solutions to navigate the crisis successfully. Gerardo Reyes Ruiz's edited book, Using Organizational Culture Strategies for Adapting to Change, offers a transformative solution to these challenges. Through a collection of real success stories from around the world, the book demonstrates how organizational culture played a crucial role in the resilience and triumph of SMEs during the pandemic. By studying these case studies, readers gain valuable insights and practical strategies to cultivate and leverage organizational culture for navigating change and driving sustainable growth. Using Organizational Culture Strategies for Adapting to Change is a comprehensive resource for academic scholars, stakeholders, business professionals, and students. It thoroughly explores the impact of organizational culture on SMEs, emphasizing the critical importance of fostering a strong culture and providing actionable guidance for establishing and nurturing it within these enterprises. The book equips readers with the necessary knowledge and tools to thrive in the face of adversity and seize new opportunities in today's rapidly evolving business environment. Whether readers seek to understand the role of culture in SME success or want practical advice for implementing cultural strategies, this book offers valuable expertise to help SMEs not only survive but thrive in challenging times.

Culture Hacker

Culture Hacker
Author: Shane Green
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2017-04-24
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1119405726

HACK YOUR WORKPLACE CULTURE FOR GREATER PROFITS AND PRODUCTIVITY "I LOVE THIS BOOK!" —CHESTER ELTON, New York Times bestselling author of All In and What Motivates Me "When companies focus on culture, the positive effects ripple outward, benefiting not just employees but customers and profits. Read this smart, engaging book if you want a practical guide to getting those results for your organization." —MARSHALL GOLDSMITH, executive coach and New York Times bestselling author "Most books on customer service and experience ask leaders to focus on the customer first. Shane turns this notion on its head and makes a compelling case why leaders need to make 'satisfied employees' the priority." —LISA BODELL, CEO of Futurethink and author of Why Simple Wins "This is a must read for anyone in a customer service-centric industry. Shane explains the path to creating both satisfied customers and satisfied employees." —CHIP CONLEY, New York Times bestselling author and hospitality entrepreneur The question is not, "does your company have a culture?" The question is, "does your company have a culture that fosters outstanding customer experiences, limits employee turnover, and ensures high performance?" Every executive and manager has a responsibility to positively influence their workplace culture. Culture Hacker gives you the tools and insights to do it with simplicity and style. Culture Hacker explains: Twelve high-impact hacks to improve employee experience and performance How to delight and retain a multi-generational workforce The factors determining whether or not your employees deliver outstanding customer service

Enhancing Organizational Performance

Enhancing Organizational Performance
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 298
Release: 1997-04-02
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0309175828

Total quality management (TQM), reengineering, the workplace of the twenty-first centuryâ€"the 1990s have brought a sense of urgency to organizations to change or face stagnation and decline, according to Enhancing Organizational Performance. Organizations are adopting popular management techniques, some scientific, some faddish, often without introducing them properly or adequately measuring the outcome. Enhancing Organizational Performance reviews the most popular current approaches to organizational changeâ€"total quality management, reengineering, and downsizingâ€"in terms of how they affect organizations and people, how performance improvements can be measured, and what questions remain to be answered by researchers. The committee explores how theory, doctrine, accepted wisdom, and personal experience have all served as sources for organization design. Alternative organization structures such as teams, specialist networks, associations, and virtual organizations are examined. Enhancing Organizational Performance looks at the influence of the organization's norms, values, and beliefsâ€"its cultureâ€"on people and their performance, identifying cultural "levers" available to organization leaders. And what is leadership? The committee sorts through a wealth of research to identify behaviors and skills related to leadership effectiveness. The volume examines techniques for developing these skills and suggests new competencies that will become required with globalization and other trends. Mergers, networks, alliances, coalitionsâ€"organizations are increasingly turning to new intra- and inter-organizational structures. Enhancing Organizational Performance discusses how organizations cooperate to maximize outcomes. The committee explores the changing missions of the U.S. Army as a case study that has relevance to any organization. Noting that a musical greeting card contains more computing power than existed in the entire world before 1950, the committee addresses the impact of new technologies on performance. With examples, insights, and practical criteria, Enhancing Organizational Performance clarifies the nature of organizations and the prospects for performance improvement. This book will be important to corporate leaders, executives, and managers; faculty and students in organizational performance and the social sciences; business journalists; researchers; and interested individuals.

Real-World Solutions for Diversity, Strategic Change, and Organizational Development: Perspectives in Healthcare, Education, Business, and Technology

Real-World Solutions for Diversity, Strategic Change, and Organizational Development: Perspectives in Healthcare, Education, Business, and Technology
Author: Burrell, Darrell Norman
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 473
Release: 2023-09-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1668486938

The great resignation, quiet quitting, #MeToo workplace cultures, bro culture at work, the absence of more minorities in cybersecurity, cybercrime, police brutality, the Black Lives Matter protests, racial health disparities, misinformation about COVID-19, and the emergence of new technologies that can be leveraged to help others or misused to harm others have created a level of complexity about inclusion, equity, and organizational efficiency in organizations in the areas of healthcare, education, business, and technology. Real-World Solutions for Diversity, Strategic Change, and Organizational Development: Perspectives in Healthcare, Education, Business, and Technology takes an interdisciplinary academic approach to understand the real-world impact and practical solutions-oriented approach to the chaotic convergence and emergence of organizational challenges and complex issues in healthcare, education, business, and technology through a lens of ideas and strategies that are different and innovative. Covering topics such as behavioral variables, corporate sustainability, and strategic change, this premier reference source is a vital resource for corporate leaders, human resource managers, DEI practitioners, policymakers, administrators, sociologists, students and educators of higher education, researchers, and academicians.

Addressing Corporate Scandals and Transgressions Through Governance and Social Responsibility

Addressing Corporate Scandals and Transgressions Through Governance and Social Responsibility
Author: Lopes, Carlos Flórido
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2023-09-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1668478870

Despite the evolution of corporate governance in the last 30 years, corporate scandals have not stopped appearing in the media and academic documents. Therefore, this book presents a multidisciplinary study of corporate governance, as its mechanisms to reduce conflicts of interest and risk management must act as preventers of ethical and financial problems. The number of corporate scandals began to grow in the 1960s and peaked in the 1990s. From the first decade of the 2000s onwards, a remarkable evolution has taken place in the regulation market. However, new scandals continued to take place including the Subprime Crisis of 2008. New concepts such as corporate social responsibility (CRS), independence, gender diversity, and shell companies were incorporated. Until 2008 the scandals were mainly financial. Now, cases of corruption, environmental accidents, unsafe working conditions, child labor, and the political influence of power are increasing, which this book intends to address. It is critical to explore methodologies that allow collaboration among companies, regulatory entities, and those that guide their behavior and to ensure that they are consistent with the values of ethics, legality, disclosure, social responsibility, and accountability. Addressing Corporate Scandals and Transgressions Through Governance and Social Responsibility examines the tools of management and control that can be used as enforcement mechanisms of corporate governance and social responsibility and provides critical research on how to improve, discuss, and develop theories around fraud, corruption, ethics, corporate governance, and corporate social responsibility. Covering topics such as corporate scandal, human rights, and business fraud, this publication is ideal for corporate governance and social responsibility professionals such as accountants, auditors, tax officers, counsellors, directors, and managers as well as researchers, investors, and regulatory bodies and authorities.

Transformational Leadership Styles for Global Leaders: Management and Communication Strategies

Transformational Leadership Styles for Global Leaders: Management and Communication Strategies
Author: Roache, Darcia Ann Marie
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 573
Release: 2023-09-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

The impact of transformational leadership styles, management strategies, and communication for organizational effectiveness and employee performance within organizations cannot be overemphasized. Leadership as a concept has evolved over the years based on situations, practices, and change management approaches in organizations. The evolution of transformational leadership in organizations is imperative to examine in order to motivate and encourage others to collectively support and work to achieve organizational effectiveness, or vision and mission. Leadership needs a paradigm shift to influence opportunities and challenges in organizations such as organizational behavior, motivation, communication, and management functions. Transformational Leadership Styles, Management Strategies, and Communication for Global Leaders aims to provide relevant theoretical, conceptual, and procedural frameworks and the latest empirical research findings that critically examine the areas of leadership, leadership styles, management studies, and communication for leaders globally. It is ideal for multi-sectoral interests in business and educational organizations, chief executive officers, executive members, team leaders, industry leaders, human resource directors and personnel, leadership and management, and practitioners.

Transformational Culture

Transformational Culture
Author: David Liddle
Publisher: Kogan Page Publishers
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2021-09-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1789661099

SHORTLISTED: Business Book Awards 2022 - People, Culture & Management category Company culture is the foundation of business success. Strong culture drives an average of four times more revenue growth, 12% more productivity and half the employee turnover rate. Driven by global health, economic and environmental emergencies and rising social justice and employee activism, organizations are urgently seeking a new cultural model which will enable them to thrive. Transformational Culture provides a blueprint for a fair, just, inclusive, sustainable, and high performing organization. With a foreword from Dave Ulrich and expert analysis of the benefits of a people-focused and values lead organization, it provides 8 transformational enablers to deliver individual, team and business success. Guidance is also included on how to tackle toxic cultures and behaviours, how to shift the dial from retributive to restorative justice, and how to develop humane and human HR and management systems. The book offers practical guidance for HR professionals and business leaders on how to redefine their culture and to embed a unique, practical framework to assist with the resolution of concerns, complaints, and conflicts at work. Tried and tested toolkits and templates plus case studies from organizations who have successfully implemented this approach including London Ambulance Service, Aviva, The FT and British Retail Consortium are contained within Transformational Culture making this an invaluable guide for anyone wishing to put their people and their values first.

Management of Organizational Change

Management of Organizational Change
Author: K Harigopal
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2006-04-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780761934158

Organizational Change is a complex yet essential process for growth and development in business. The second edition of this insightful book examines the nature of this critical process in the light of the rapid changes in the business environment and intense global competition.The author revisits fundamental concepts, as well as presents new ideas, activities, and processes associated with how to plan, implement and manage effective transformational change. The book highlights:- The nature and process of transformational change and the paradigms basic to the change process- The basic concepts and strategic leverages of change- The need for and ways of aligning current tasks, systems, processes, and culture with organizational goals- The support systems required for change and the need to develop and maintain these systems- Ways of tuning organizations for change- Managing change through people by optimizing individual and group effortsSupported by numerous case studies and written in a lucid and reader-friendly style, this book will be a definitive guide for students, scholars, and practitioners.

Agile L&D

Agile L&D
Author: Natal Dank
Publisher: Kogan Page Publishers
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2024-04-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1398613266

Agility is no longer a buzzword, it's now a business imperative. Apply agile thinking, tools and processes to the learning function with this expert guide written specifically for learning and organizational development (OD) professionals. Written by an author at the forefront of agility in the people profession, Agile L&D explains how to develop an agile approach to workplace learning. The business context has dramatically changed, so the way you approach specialisms like learning and OD must also change. Based on five design principles: Product-led, Human-centric design, T-shaped people in T-shaped teams, Experimentation and Deliver with impact, Agile L&D provides a dedicated toolkit to help you design learning and OD solutions that solve workplace challenges and impact business performance. How we design work, upskill people and deploy teams is now intrinsically linked with modern business strategy. To continuously adapt to a complex business environment, companies need a more fluid movement of people and skills across the organization to better reflect customer needs, market opportunities and capability requirements. This book has the answer. Full of tools, tips and frameworks as well as real world examples from global organizations including Macmillan Cancer Support, TomTom, Diageo, Arup and Citizens Advice, this is essential reading for all learning and development, OD and people professionals in this constantly changing world of work.

Management of Technology

Management of Technology
Author: Hans J. Thamhain
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2015-05-14
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1119139724

- vorgestellt werden die modernsten Managementkonzepte, Hilfsmittel und Methoden, die auch in technologieintensiven Unternehmensbereichen einwandfrei funktionieren - Schwerpunkte liegen auf Prozeßintegration, Managementwerkzeugen und Personalentwicklung