Organizational Culture
Essays

This paper is about capital budgeting. The focus is the HBS case on Stryker that talks about that company's systems for approving capital projects. The case seeks to reconcile the existing system at Stryker with the objectives of the system, and to recommend ways to improve the existing system's functionality.

Managing Diversity Diversity is a fact of American and International business and is a broader, more complex issue than one might initially believe. This paper will address the breadth and complexity of Diversity by reviewing: the nature of Diversity; legally protected classes within the United States; aspects of Diversity that fall outside the scope of U. S. legal protections; the benefits of Diversity for employers; the differences/challenges presented by Diversity for employers; general business adjustments/accommodations for Diversity; and suggested specific business adjustments/accommodations for Diversity. Though this paper cannot exhaustively address all aspects of Diversity, it is hoped that a review of all those aspects will give a good overview of modern businesses' Diversity issues and possible solutions. The nature of Diversity is shown to be much broader than the classes legally protected by U.S. Law; it also includes global issues created by international business and classes, such as our four generations of American workers, extending far beyond the narrow confines of U.S. law. As we have seen from our sources, there are many benefits for companies embracing Diversity, not only in "doing the right thing" but also in basic business advantages of greater employee skills, attraction for consumers and greater profitability. Despite these advantages, Diversity exposes businesses to differences/challenges, such as the attitude of some businesspeople; societal prejudice; different attitudes of different cultures; the apparent tendency of business to inadequately honor international cultural differences; prejudice against Middle-Eastern workers in view of 09/11; challenges when women & minorities are not proportionately represented in upper management; and challenges presented by the different traits and expectations of our four generations of American workers. In order to meet those differences/challenges, most sources seem to agree on general business adjustments/accommodations for Diversity, such as: recognition of Diversity; recognizing the need for Diversity Training; establishing a "corporate culture" embracing Diversity and inclusion through communication, clear policy and insistence on Diversity; Diversity coaching; a clear plan for company-wide Diversity, with the company acting as a "moderator" of those values; training involving a "top-to-bottom" approach in which Diversity values start with the CEO and move down and throughout the company. Finally, some sources have offered propositions, simple plans and very complex plans for Diversity programs, all of which seem to agree with the general principles that the positive embrace of Diversity must come from the highest reaches of a company, move down through company channels and spread throughout the company for the greatest success.

Organizational Behavior - Terminology and Concepts

Employee Compensation and Benefits Package Redesign Project

This paper is based on workplace violence, predominantly in the health care industry. Workplace violence in the today's time has accelerated immensely amongst various industries, and healthcare industry is considerable amongst them. The violent actions and behaviors performed in the workplace environment that can cause emotional and psychical damage to a person is typically referred to as workplace violence. The paper includes an incident of workplace violence amongst nurses in the healthcare industry. The situation, current culture of the organization, and other factors attributable to workplace violence has come under extensive discussion. The key people that have been directly or indirectly affected by the incident have also been included.

Inarguably, enterprises and organizations derive strategic benefit from cyber capacity, but these benefits that are ensured only as cyberspace is simultaneously kept secure. In the private sector, the benefits are manifested through economic growth. Robust cyber capacity is fundamental to an empowered society and to national security. Experts assert that the key indicators of information-dependent business success are knowing the business information held by the enterprise, understanding the value of the information to your business goals, establishing a comprehensive system to protect that information, and using the information for competitive advantage.

Gale, S.F. (April - 2003). "Putting job candidates to the test." Workforce Today, 64-68.

Organizational Change and Development in Public Sector

Montefiore Medical Center is one of the best hospitals in New York State employing several employees annually. Located in Bronx, New York, Montefiore is ranked as the sixth best hospital among the 180 New York City metro area hospitals. However, the hospital underwent several strategic changes to boost productivity as well as productivity. In this regard, this paper highlights the rationale behind the hospital's development of a new strategy, the strategic direction chosen by MMC and the factors that influenced this decision. In addition, the paper compares and contrasts the new and old organizational structures while explaining the health center's value map and discussing relationships in the model. Finally, the paper compares and contrasts the activity system view as recently proposed by Michael Porter with resource based view.

Workplace Diversity "The benefits of diversity cannot be achieved with isolated interventions. To the contrary, a complete organizational culture change is required in order to promote appreciation of individual differences… diversity is a multifaceted reality…" (Martin-Alcazar, et al, 2012) Abstract The need for diversity in the workplace has been well established in the literature, but the need for managers and executives to build a culture based on diversity is still on the drawing boards for many organizations. Learning the how, why and when of diversity in the workplace is the next big step for companies, in particular those organizations competing in the global marketplace. Diversity in the workplace must be more than numbers and demographics, according to the literature in this paper. It is a moral imperative and in addition it should be an intelligent, insightful and practical business policy.