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Organizational Culture and Design Derrick Bradley MGT/521 10 March 2020
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Introduction
Ideally, organizational culture is communicated to all workers. It directs what they do and how they do it. Additionally, it is embedded in all activities in a bid to improve operational efficiency. As for IDEO, the culture is about helping one another in complex tasks. Employees work as teams and whenever one needs assistance, it becomes easy to get it. As such, culture makes all tasks easy. Different techniques are used to realize it as discussed in the following slides.
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Organizational culture is communicated to all workers
It directs what they do and how they do it
IDEO culture is about helping one another in complex tasks
The culture makes all tasks easy
Different techniques are used to realize it
Organizational culture at IDEO
Leadership conviction to encourage collaborations (Kinicki & Williams, 2020)
A company culture with employees’ roles as helpers (as seen in fig.1 here)
Every worker has been assigned a helper
Understanding helpfulness as better than the competition
IDEO’s leadership normally encourages collaborations among the employees (Kinicki & Williams, 2020). Complex problems require more help. To ensure that the employees can work on complex problems, they join hands and find solutions. Brainstorming is one way they apply. As part of the company culture, the workers act as helpers, as seen in fig.1 presented. They develop networks and participate in daily activities as a way to build the helping culture. It is also crucial to note that each worker is assigned a helper so that he/she can offer a helping hand whenever the task is complicated. Finally, the workers have grown to deeply understand bout helpfulness. It produces a better outcome than the competition. When people join hands and share their thoughts, tasks become simple and doable compared to when each person is engaged in a task trying to compete with others.
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Techniques used by IDEO
Leaders’ support.
Using collaborative approaches like brainstorming, clan culture (Kinicki & Williams, 2020).
Fig.2 indicates a brainstorming session at IDEO.
Teamwork vs. competition
Open offices, easy to access helpers
IDEO has embedded the organizational culture through several techniques. First, support from the leaders has made it easy for people to interact freely and learn from one another. Again, leaders have allowed employees to have helpers. Without leadership support, the culture would not have succeeded. Another technique is incorporating collaborative approaches like brainstorming in finding solutions (as in fig.2 above by IDEO workers). It promotes the clan culture where employees participate (Kinicki & Williams, 2020). The process brings people together to find ways of addressing some organizational challenges. Teamwork has also promoted a helping culture. It is contrary to competition where people work on individual tasks which can be complicated and take more time. Lastly, IDEO has open offices where workers can easily access helpers and have the problem solved.
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Organizational culture used in our organization
Our organizational culture entails better salaries and performance-based incentives (Al Mamun, & Hasan, 2017).
Employee recognition
Employee engagement (Ruck et al., 2017).
Many employee benefits (Kinicki & Williams, 2002).
IDEO organizational culture can be implemented in our organization
Our organizational culture entails better salaries and performance-based incentives meant to make employees strive to improve their productivity to increase their salaries (Al Mamun, & Hasan, 2017). Moreover, there is an employee recognition program where the best employees are recognized and awarded. The program makes others work hard so that they too can be recognized. Employee engagement helps us communicate with the management and offer our feedback as seen in fig. 3 (Ruck et al., 2017). We also have an innovative workplace culture whereby the workers are given the opportunity to explain their ideas and if they work, they are rewarded for that. Finally, we benefit from company perks like retirement, health, and life insurance as well as paid leaves (Kinicki & Williams, 2002). With the success that IDEO has achieved, its organizational culture can be implemented in our organization.
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Mechanisms Our Company Can Use To Adopt The IDEO Culture
Encourage teamwork and group perks. Fig.4 has IDEO employees posing as a team.
Have employees get helpers
Exercise open office culture to reach one another
Have departmental forums to address complex challenges
To adopt the IDEO organizational culture of helping in our organization, the company must encourage teamwork and group perks. Teamwork entails working as groups and not individuals (as seen in fig. 4, IDEO workers). Again, instead of awarding and recognizing individual workers as we normally do, groups should be recognized. As for group perks, these are team awards such as group vacations to rewards groups and not individuals. The employees should also get helpers, people who can be easily accessed whenever there is a problem or a difficult task. Importantly, the organization needs to exercise an open office culture so that a worker can reach one another at any time. Finally, we must have departmental forums to address complex challenges. The brainstorming process is one way that employees within the department can effectively gather ideas of addressing issues.
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Conclusion
IDEO’s organizational culture is about helping.
All tasks are easy because of concerted efforts are made.
Techniques used include collaborations, teamwork, and open culture.
Our organization use performance-based incentives, employee recognition, innovative workplace culture, and many employee benefits.
To adopt the culture, we need to encourage teamwork and group perks, employees get helpers, utilize open office and have departmental forums.
Undeniably, IDEO’s organizational culture is about helping. All tasks become easy when concerted efforts are made. Employees can easily access help from their colleagues when they need it. They leverage techniques such as collaborations, teamwork, and open culture. In our organization, we use performance-based incentives, employee recognition, innovative workplace culture, and many employee benefits. We can adopt IDEO’s culture to make all tasks easy. To adopt the culture, we need to encourage teamwork and group perks, employees get helpers, utilize the open office, and have departmental forums.
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References
Al Mamun, C.A., & Hasan, M. N. (2017). Factors affecting employee turnover and sound retention strategies in business organization: a conceptual view. Problems and Perspectives in Management, 1(1), 63-71
Kinicki, A., & Williams, B. (2020). Management: A Practical Introduction (9th ed). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.
Ruck et al. (2017). Employee voice: An antecedent to organisational engagement? Public Relations Review, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pubrev.2017.04.008
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