Organizational Culture and Leadership Leadership is power, exercise of influence of an authority that seeks to inspire the conduct of others (individuals or groups) in order to get them to voluntarily achieve clearly defined objectives. While some have naturally predisposed to leadership, it is also true that leadership develops over time. What is the key to a productive leadership? How to improve weaknesses to achieve positive results? How to mobilize and

Oracle's culture also relies on teams instead of larger and highly hierarchical organizational structures (Eden, 2006). These teams give employees an opportunity to personally identify with their team goals and have a higher level of accountability and performance as a result (Kumar, 2007). Of the seven primary characteristics of an organizational culture, Oracle has a strong outcome orientation, team orientation, aggressiveness, and innovation and risk-taking. One of the most appealing

Maximizing a unit's performance is influenced by how well the leader shapes the organization's climate. Climate is a reflection about how people think and feel about their organization at a snapshot of time (Swift, 2010). Climate is generally a short-term experience that is contingent of emerging personalities in a small organization. The organization's climate evolves as the people change. A soldier's first point of contact within the chain of

Over the past decade, 'culture' has become a common term used when thinking about and describing an organization's internal world, a way of differentiating one organization's personality from another. In fact, many researchers contend that an organization's culture socializes people (Stein, 1985) and that leadership styles are an integral part of the culture of an organization. A culture-specific perspective reflects the view that the occurrence and the effectiveness of certain

A healthcare organization has both formal and informal structures that occasionally conflict with one another. Formally, this healthcare organization is approaching that of a service line. It is flatter than a traditional hierarchy, with several of the bureaucratic layers removed. Yet there is a senior leadership team with official, formal authority, presiding over different departments and work groups. Wadsworth (2017) in fact recommends a similar organizational structure and design for

Organizational Learning What is the role of learning in change processes? Pay particular attention to the ideas of Naomi Raab Learning is a galvanizing factor across all change processes in that it unifies each step in the process and over time creates an experience effect that creates greater levels of knowledge over time. The role of learning in change processes is also non-linear, a key finding of management and organizational design theorist