Family Business Culture: Case Study

The organization of Danube obliges all newly hired employees to go through the procedure of “Induction”, which allows newly hired employees to attend a three to four working day workshop that is hosted by the management at the main headquarter. The “term “Induction” is defined as the procedure or action at which someone is brought into an organization. The “Induction” workshop will include a trainer that allows new employees to be involved activities such as social tasks, which would improve communication. The activities are made realistic situations that have occurred previously, which is beneficial in engaging new employees with the methods used in reacting to certain situations. This will assist in allowing will enable the new employees to understand the core value of the family business culture and will also assist the trainer to analyze the new employees connection and compatibility with the culture as well as the values of the family business Danube. Danube also provides lectures, where they provide the exact detail needed for new employees and includes the different standards and protocols of the company. This includes applying for various types of leaves and the reasons on why they would like to go on leave, which also includes health or simply vacation

In the discussion with the manager, the manager did mention a lot on the growth of employees and employees personal growth. Employee trainings and lecture or courses are significant as the employees are to understand the current market product or the new market product. Furthermore managers would attempt to mentally motivate employees by allowing to feel want or important, allow them to make decisions, while they receive more experience with Danube. The management at Danube would prefer that their employees analyze and solve issues by implementing their own knowledge and expertise. After analyzing the problem, the employees need to report back to the management with the solution. Management intervention is possible if employees find difficulty in resolving certain issue or that certain issues are too large to be resolved by regular employees. The culture at Danube allows employees to fell as if they are part of the family (business sense) as well as part of the procedure and without them the entire procedure would be unsuccessful. All employees are motivated to mention or come up with any creative or innovative ideas and concepts. It could be about a work procedure or a business gathering, which is more informal. Employees are given work leaves to come up with such innovative ideas. Not many organizations allow employees to have a break to come up with innovative ideas. It is rare in family businesses allow employees to come up with such creative