Organizational culture of the National Company “Kazakhstan temir zholy” (KTZ)
Organizational culture is a very important aspect of management practice. According to Rick (2015), “Organizational culture is the sum of values and rituals which serve as “glue” to integrate the members of the organization”. Any organizational culture despite the size of a company must complete the following functions:
• Distinctive recognized company image formation
• Development of a sense of community, achieving cohesion among all employees, employers
• Enhancing social stability in the organization
• Inducing the involvement of workers in the affairs of the organization, ensure commitment and devotion to the organization
• Formation and control of patterns of
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Hence those who are enlisted in the talents pool do feel confident that they are highly appreciated by top managers, hence their sense of space is fulfilled. Despite the fact that KTZ is formal and reserved organization, talents pool employees are rewarded and their achievements are announced internally in order to motivate the others. Another category of new organizational culture of KTZ includes the term “Employee development” defined by Harris and Moran (1996). Adaptation of a new personnel to KTZ corporate culture is not an easy process. In order to simplify induction and adaptation process, adaptation sessions with KTZ mentors are held, for example, according to KTZ’s HR activities report for 2013, around 300 workshops were held for newcomers. Ceremonial rites of passage, integration, and enhancement do exist at KTZ. For example, Dauren (team member and KTZ employee) says that a newly hired person must give a banquet to his new colleagues, particularly meat dishes are preferred rather than just cakes (maybe due to our Kazakh national love to meat), all alcoholic drinks are not allowed inside the KTZ building, but “veterans” tend to require vodka during banquet. If consider Hofstede’s model, it can be said that there are strong signs of collectivism, however, due to new business transformation strategy, extrinsic incentives are offered to encourage
The Kiwanis Hi-Liters is a group of eighteen or so young performers between 7 and 18 who travelled to local convalescent homes and nursing homes each week from September to May in an effort to bring some joy to the elderly. Throughout these two-hour shows, there were performances from singers, musicians, clowns, and magicians. When I first started as the backstage manager my role was to ensure the audio technicians had the proper music for each performance prior to the start of the show, organizing the performers before their numbers and relaying pertinent information to the directors regarding any changes that needed to be made to the line-up because of unforeseen complications whether that was the performer was no longer available to do their
Zinczenko reinforce his point of view by using numerous amount of rhetorical appeal methods to assist him in conveying his message being: ethical, emotional and logical. Although Zinczenko is effective in putting the blame in not only fast food mega cooperation and the government. Yet, Zinczenko accidently manages to turn a blind eye on the consumer; which plays major role in controlling
This quickly gives the audience a feel for the way Krosoczka goes about life. He then opens up his speech to broader generalizations. With this, he invites the audience in and connects to them. Since he has now connected with the audience , he then shows them different time lunch ladies have done extraordinary acts and changed lives. This then opens up the audience’s eyes to what they can also do, and how they can change people’s lives.
The Subway community is filled with interaction with customers. This community shares a broadly agreed set of public goals and based on these goals are what type of people usually join this discourse. The food service discourse community shares common goals such greeting everyone as they come into the restaurant, keeping the customers satisfied, and being very organized and timed managed. These are a few of common shared goals in the community. In order to join this discourse, these individuals must be time managed, team player, helpful, organized, and fast-paced.
Every employee has a dream. Some may be seemingly unattainable but those dreams are facilitated at Chick-fil-A. Their aim is to help cultivate a culture that will be a part of the employee’s complete life even after Chick-fil-A. (4) Engaging Guests in a Compelling
As questions were thrown around, the amount of hands raised slowly decreased. Many students wanted to know why their school wasn’t doing anything. Others were disappointed because they were planning to bring a veteran(s). After school, Kurovski and a few other students went to their teacher and wanted to know what they could do to get the school’s traditional ceremony back. While talking, they came up with some ideas to confront
During those hours one will find people who are homeless, numerous vendors selling handmade jewelry and incense, businesspersons and woman going to and from work, people sightseeing, as well as college and Berkley high school students milling around the plaza all of which make the plaza an ideal place to observe hierarchy in a public space. For the reasons mentioned, I met my partner at the plaza 11 am expecting to observe the usual crowd. What stood out immediately was the people in the plaza during mid-morning are not the same people I see in the plaza during the early morning, late afternoon and evening.
Kotter’s “common errors to organizational change efforts.” They are ‘allowing too much complacency, underestimating the power of vision, permitting obstacles to block new approach.’ First, allowing excessive complacency is one of main drivers for unsuccessful instillation of any new culture into organizational culture. President Obama’s promise to keep the Armed Forces the best in history allows defense leaders to lessen their determination to the cost culture. Secondly, the strategic leaders underestimated the power of vison which guides guide military leaders and personnel to consider their actions with regard to culture of savings accordingly.
DISCUSSING ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE Lisa Thai HRMT-440 Colorado Technical University 4/18/2018 Business organizations in the industry are always experiencing changes in the business environment. This forces them to change their operations hence in order to coup with the changing business environment (Fletcher, 2004). The technology keeps on advancing hence the need for business enterprises to adopt the use of it in order to boosts its performance in the industry. Organizations that perform well in the industry starts to grow in size hence expanding their operations in the industry. The increase in size of a firm requires it to makes certain changes in its operations in order to incorporate the growth in its operations.
Ford Motor Company's various leveled society affects the affiliation's drive toward higher execution to perform its vision of industry organization. An association's various leveled society describes the qualities, conventions and traditions that impact individual and group practices. Ford uses its progressive society to keep up a world class workforce. As the fifth most noteworthy player in the overall vehicles showcase, the association needs to keep up high productivity and convincing support for mechanical and technique headway (Khosrow-Pour, 2006). These necessities are met through a various leveled society that epitomizes Ford's vision and mission statements, with highlight on flawlessness and joint effort.
Its objective is to retain and promote the best managers possible at every location to best influence the food and the customers positively. A unique method of staffing was enacted at Chipotle. The staffing structure ensured that the hourly employees could be promoted to better and higher paying positions and even into management. This career progression attracted and retained the best human resource talent and provided a motivating and positive career trajectory for lower-tier staff. The ability of managers to reward or withhold tangible and intangible rewards allows for the development of a meritocracy.
The Importance of a Company’s Culture The culture of a company is one of the most important and sometimes overlooked factors in an organization. The culture can increase employee engagement and increase productivity which will allow a company to reach its goals, “From productivity and engagement in the organization’s day-to-day, to an employer brand that naturally fuels recruiting efforts, to creating a lasting brand that customers immediately recognize, there’s no escaping it – culture radiates outward into the marketplace” (Straz 2015). The culture can have a great impact on the employees. Employees thrive in a positive working environment and the ability to engage with their managers without fear of retaliation.
COLLAPSE Week 3 – Marie Samalova GF2059 Activity 1 – Definition of culture It is hard to set up a universal definition of culture as its understanding vary. This difference can be explained by experience of the person and by some national stereotypes. Culture can is a combination of religion, art, habits, traditions, lifestyle and various other factors. Some of these aspects can be very strong for one person or a group but insignificant for some other one.
When women were given opportunity to participate in the labour market they were still given low wages then man, feminism movement was associated with seeking equal human right and opportunities for women in economic activities. Organizations have now became flexibly people from different races are allowed to exercise their cultures in the work place for example Friday Muslims go to prayer at a certain time and organizations respect that,this is a reflection flexibility. Organizational culture plays a very important role in intergrating employees.the aim of strong cooperate culture is to form strong identification and loyalty within the man organizations objectives and values.the use of culture as management strategy . Corporate culture was put on agenda .according to Thompson & McHugh (2004) “This can be defined as a way in which management mobilize combinations of values, language, rituals and myths and is seen as the key factor in unlocking the commitment and enthusiasm of employees”.
Organizational culture and its effects on the success or failure of the organization. • Type of the organizational culture, and its seven primary characteristics of culture. Each organization has its own culture that builds up the atmosphere inside and between the workers and gives it its own impress. An organizations society suggests plan or a system of shared essentialness held by people that perceive the relationship and differs the organization among others. There are seven vital characteristics that seem to get the substance of the belonging to the company which are: 1.