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Organizational Culture: The Walt Disney Company
Relationship between the design of your selected organization and its organizational culture
The Walt Disney Company is a popular company in many homes all over the world because of the magical treatment given to visitors. The magic starts with the excellent training given to each employee that makes visitors have a memorable experience. The Disney Institute uses a structured learning atmosphere to offer training to employees working in restaurants and cast characters. This training aims at ensuring that all Disney workers obtain top notch learning that enables customers to be pleased (Gibson & Ivancevich, 2005).
Among all the structures, culture and the controls is a relationship that operates like a locked chain. The company's culture specifies the decision-making authority, controls and procedures. The organization's structure has been matched with the company's strategy. The organizational structures serve the purpose of managing the company's daily work routines, distribute resources, and explore new competitive possibilities and resources. This is evitable in every company because companies are made of employees with different believes, history, background and educational levels. An interaction between...
The organizational culture creates controls, which seek to motivate The Walt Disney Company employees. The company's controls give guidance on how to implement strategies, suggest the appropriate corrective actions and differentiate between expected and actual results (Gibson & Ivancevich, 2005).
Employees shape the shared values and customs within an organization. Controls are used both in internal and external interactions. Controls are established in different organizational areas. In most company,'s these controls can be easily noticed and observed through different organizational cultures. Organizational structure can be used as a tool to inaugurate and keep in control strategies decided upon by the company's management. Monitoring and control measures can be used to distribute them thus giving rise to distinct culture within organizations (Robbins, 2008). In the management area, Functions like accounting, R & D, and marketing divide management's organizational capacity. Organizational culture in an organization might be its strongest asset or biggest liability. With time, this fact has raised eyebrows many arguing that organizations that have a rare culture are in the pool of…
References
Robbins, S. (2008). Organizational Behaviour: Global and Southern African Perspectives. New York: Pearson
Gibson, J. & Ivancevich, J. (2005). Organizations: behavior, structure, processes. Cornell University: McGraw-Hill/Irwin
Walt Disney Company Organization's culture determines communication Walt Disney's culture and communication can be described as two sides of the same coin. It is through structured mechanisms and processes that the organization exists. It is through documents, memos, meetings, and conversations that employees coordinate their activities. These communicative behaviors are collectively known as the discourse of the company. Therefore, it is primarily identified as the means by which Walt Disney creates a
It makes deals with fast-food companies for using its characters for promotions which also serve to promote Disney productions. The company has some synergy with its television network as an outlet for Disney made-for-TV films and some television shows, though in-house productions are not as prevalent on the network as they might be. The company has the money it needs to make changes and to continue to produce films, television
When the dentist asked Walt to come over to finalize the deal, Walt had to admit that he did not have the $1.50 to recover his shoes from the local cobbler. The dentist not only came to Walt to hand over $500 for the deal, but also gave him the cobbler's fee. Walt then began work on Alice's Wonderland, in which a child was placed against a cartoon background,
One of the most important matters for Disney Corporation is something that is not materially valuable. Its reputation is the one thing that most tend to disregard when considering its fortune, as people would rather think about the money it generates and its possessions. However, the people at Disney's know that shareholders are expecting their investment to benefit them, given the company's tradition. In order to refrain from disappointing its
Walt Disney Company CSR The Company Walt Disney Company began as a small cartoon studio in 1923, produced its first sound-synchronized short five years later, its first full-color cartoon short in 1932 for which it received an Academy Award, and from there the Company catapulted to greatness with hits such as Snow White, Dumbo and Pinocchio. Disney expanded into live-action production, television, theme parks, and global productions over the decades with Walt
Disney and Pixar Disney's acquisition of Pixar in 2006 resulted in many headlines and opinions. The main reason for the acquisition was Disney's reluctance to lose its ties with the new giant in animation, while its own opportunities were waning because a lack of technology and innovation. The acquisition was therefore based upon Disney's drive to maintain a relationship that has historically proven to be profitable, while also maintaining its own