Competency 1 - Assessment

Competency 1 – Reflection

Shemeko Hopkins

LDRCB/535:

Motivation in the Workplace

One place that felt motivated is when I was working at Fred’s Dollar Store because when I was there, we felt like family there we were all there to help each other every day was a good day to be happy to be at work. At most jobs, you feel like a team, but we felt like a family if one had it, we all have it. If something went wrong, we all took the blame because we were a family that stood by each other no matter what, and since it was like that it made me more motivated to take the manager position without any problem. I knew that I had a good team behind me that will help me if I fall that was the best thing to have a wonderful team/family. There is a time that I felt very unmotivated is when they told us that the store {Freds} was closing I felt so sad so disappointed because we had worked so hard to build what most companies do not have is a family. People do not understand when you are able to get alone with your coworker's that is a good thing but the whole team is working together and getting along that is unbelievable, but we made it happen. We had done so much for this company and for them to just push us out and missed over someone like that was wrong that unmotivated me to work hard for a company again. I think that they could have set us up with something different than what they did to help us feel comfortable with the company leaving and that we were well-talking care of, but we were not they just let us go are they dropped us down to part-time making us not get what we deserve out of the company. I personally do not think these companies do not have their employee's best at hand because they will leave you high and dry and not care as long as they are okay.

Elements of Organizational Culture

A mission statement communicates the organization’s reason for being, and how it aims to serve its key stakeholders. A vision statement describes the company's purpose, what the company is striving for, and what it wants to achieve. Customers, employees, and investors are the stakeholders most often emphasized, but other stakeholders like government or communities. Values are the beliefs of an individual or group and in this case, the organization, in which they are emotionally invested. Ethical climate is important because it can improve employee morale, enrich organizational commitment, and foster an involved and retained workforce. Creating clear boundaries for risks and ethical business standards provides a framework for employees to make the right decisions. The better employees understand an organization's purpose, through its mission and vision, the better able they will be to understand the strategy and its implementation. The mission and vision statements of a company help direct the organizational strategy and they both provide purpose and goals, which are necessary elements of a strategy. They outline the audience for the business, and what that audience finds important.

Reference

https://open.lib.umn.edu/principlesmanagement/chapter/4-3-the-roles-of-mission-vision-and-

values/

https://hbr.org/2019/05/how-to-design-an-ethical-organization

https://smallbusiness.chron.com/importance-mission-vision-organizational-strategy-16000.html