...Change and Culture Case Study I Lydia Wooten Managing in Today’s Health Care Organizations HCS/513 September 17, 2012 Darlene Cantu Change and Culture Case Study I There are many reasons why mergers take place. The main reason why corporation exists with merging with companies is to enhance their level of competition in the market. It is however important to note that conjuring departments into a single organizational unit is a different form of merging. This is due to the fact that the cultural transformation may not be as great as merging two companies. The major challenge involved with merging is getting two different groups or staff to work collaboratively to realize real benefits. In this scenario, am a middle manager in a healthcare organization that has merged with a previous competitor, Competition has been viewed to result to delivery of poor quality of care. One unique aspect about the new organization is the fact that it has in place numerous outpatient and inpatient services that our organization does not. This paper will be described what affects the organization will have on the culture on terms of systems and shapes. In detail provide quality care from the middle manager to ensure the staff will ensure quality care without a competitive point of view. Impact Sale on the Culture of the New Combined Organization T-Mobile and AT&T are similar organization but they provide different services. The same scenario for health care organization they...
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...culture it will requires cultural change. There are three reason why cultural change is need, the first one is the change cannot occur in a hostile environment, second is the quality culture will need time to change and the last one is the difficulties to overcome the past. To establish a quality culture it will involves specific planning and activities for every business or department. Some steps need to be identified and the outlines of the emotional processes that the employee go through as the steps are being taken. The top management will need to recognize and accommodate the emotional transition required not only of employee but also themselves. They are seven phases of emotional transition, the first one is shock. Most people will shock when there is a change in the way the doing thing. People feel uncomfortable to do something they not used to since them already comfortable with their everyday work. Unexpected changes will interrupt and shock them. The natural state of human is they does not welcome new changes in their life and most of them find it hard to accept the changes. The second is denial, when they were shock by the new changes they will automatically denial the change. However the shock won’t be lasting forever since human has the capability to adept with changes, only time will decides it. Third is realization, even they were shock and deny the change, they still realize that thing already changing. Whether they approve the change or not it will still...
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...Limitations: Point: main difficulty with the concept of deviation from social norms = varies as time changes Evidence: What is socially accepted now may not have been socially acceptable 50 years ago e.g. homosexuality Explanation: definition will be constantly altered with regards to the prevailing social norms/ attitudes time change = social attitude change no standardised/generalised based on deviation from ‘social norms’. Limitations: Point: main difficulty with the concept of deviation from social norms = varies as time changes Evidence: What is socially accepted now may not have been socially acceptable 50 years ago e.g. homosexuality Explanation: definition will be constantly altered with regards to the prevailing social norms/ attitudes time change = social attitude change no standardised/generalised based on deviation from ‘social norms’. Limitations: Point: attempts to define abnormality influenced by cultural factors (cultural relativism) Evidence: Western European society’s accept sex between consenting adults of any gender where s it may be classified abnormal in a different culture e.g. Sub-Saharan Africa Explanation: different cultures = different standards Limitations: Point: attempts to define abnormality influenced by cultural factors (cultural relativism) Evidence: Western European society’s accept sex between consenting adults of any gender where s it may be classified abnormal in a different culture e.g. Sub-Saharan Africa Explanation:...
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...IMPACT OF CULTURAL DIVERSITY ON SOCIETY Group Memebers Asad (13-811) Aqsa ( 13-720) Daniyal( 12-816) Maham (13-695) Usman( 12-822) CONTENTS Introduction * Society * Culture * Diversity: Monoculturalism, Multiculturalism Cultural diversity and harmony in society Cultural diversity and Conflicts in society Impact of cultural diversity on social institutions of society References Part 2 Cultural diversity and harmony in society. The word "diverse" refers to Variety and the Cultural Diversity is a variety of human societies or cultures present in a specific area. Understanding different cultures is very crucial for us as community builders. Regardless of what part of the world we reside in we have to work and build relationships with people of various cultural backgrounds. Cultural diversity is acknowledging, accepting, celebrating and valuing the numerous ways that people live and interact in the world .Basic culture of other societies cannot be ignored. Groundwork of this acceptance is that every culture and race has made a significant input to history When we read the word "Harmony" a question that most of us ask ourselves is . What actually is harmony? According to Professor David de Kretser "The word harmony brings to my mind a sense of happiness, as one might get by listening to a piece of music that blends notes to yield a pleasant, comfortable feeling without any harsh note that "jars" one's body." Harmony is...
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...Culture 1. Introduction to Culture 2. How culture affects managerial approaches 3. Trompenaar’s Cultural Dimensions 4. Geert Hofstede’s Cultural Dimensions 5. Cultural challenges when entering a new market 6. Pros and Cons of entering a new market with an adapted/standardized product 7. Characteristics of culture 8. Conclusion 9. Values in Culture 10. Value Similarities and Differences across cultures Introduction to Culture There is no doubt that the international marketing process do face a large set of variables as it take place over different countries and it does act in different environments. One of the most determinant environments to the success of the international marketing process is Culture, which hold the reason for many human acts and behavior. Reaching to that point international marketer should study deeply culture treaties of a country the company is planning to act in. so that special amendments in the organization overall plans and actions is made to act in accordance with the new market variables The role of culture in international business and marketing Culture is a distinctive element of international marketing. While factors besides culture are present, culture could be a key determinant of most overseas relationships. Researchers agree that exchange processes within business networks can only be understood by conducting studies in different countries and cultures. For example, studies...
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...Innovation Management Assignment WS 2010/11 Case B: Introduction of Management by Objectives Problems when putting the change into effect Although many companies have found acquisitions to be highly beneficial to their operations, many more encounter problems that can have disastrous consequences to the future position of the firm. Specifically, a poorly executed acquisition can harm a firm´s financial and strategic situation and can have negative impacts on the firm´s management and overall culture. The most valuable resource a company has includes their employees and the skills and knowledge that they posses. If the acquiring company fails to retain these quality employees, the firm loses the value of their expertise for which they paid through the acquisition. Many companies have gone into an acquisition without evaluating the organization...
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...(a) The objective external environment of labor unions in the U.S. post-1980 is more of a revitalized unionism and less of bureaucratic conservative unionism. Although the bureaucratic conservatism model is no longer in use after the 1980s because it failed to work within the objective world, our understanding of the world as subjective has made the bureaucratic conservatism to be still applicable. In this regard, unions tend to win when they are organized and lose when they are disorganized. Unlike the bureaucratic conservative unionism, revitalized unionism is more of an organization and far from disorganized mass protest. Therefore, the culture in the post-1980 world of Big Labor was one that limited the use of bureaucratic conservatism....
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...Name Institution Instructor Tittle DEFINITION OF CULTURE AND BIOLOGY AND THEIR IMPORTANCE Culture is a core concept encompassed in anthropology in which art, knowledge, belief and religious practice as well as societal administration are exercised. Culture also the aspect of practicing the societal norms that have been put in place over a given period of time thus making people in the vicinity to adhere to the latter and sometimes consequences may be associated if an individual deflects from their requirements. Morals, law, customs, language, beliefs and traditions encompass culture and in a given geographical location with different societies, culture may take a form called multiculturalism (which is cultural diversity). Culture is among the oldest developments in history dated back millions of years during the evolution of early man in the Paleolithic period when he made stone tools, developed language, built settlements, made paintings, hunted and gathered wild animals and plants, reared and developed the art of plant and animal domestication and eventually established a sedentary lifestyle with laws and regulations governing the conduct of their generations. A culture can be due developed in the community, institution, organization or any business entity especially if the administration of such institution lays a concrete base on a given practice. Such may include the likes of instilling a culture on responsibility in duty, early reporting to work premises and timely...
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...why not, the other boy’s mother answered, ‘Because you are Indians and we are white, and I don’t want my kids growing up with your kind of people’” (Lake 92). The only reason to prevent two children from playing outside of school was based on the idea that the Indian culture could be bad or dangerous. The boy’s mother specifically emphasizes that the reason she is against their children being together is because of her belief that Indians and Whites don’t belong together. At some point in her life this mother’s mind was molded to believe that the cultural differences between Whites and Indians is enough to prevent interaction between them. This perspective she has developed is a reflection of her own culture that she was raised to believe, because I can assume she has been White for the majority of her life. However, culture can change; the way that we act, believe, and dress are always changing and adapting. When our culture changes, so does our perspective on other cultures. In an essay by Bharati...
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...As I have been learning these past nine weeks I have learned so much that I have truly changed as a person to try not to be prejudice towards others. In the past honestly I was very prejudice towards others just by their looks. There are many ways that diversity means for things in the world. So many things are different in the world, but that doesn’t mean we need to be prejudice about things or people. The things I have learned about my own racial, ethnic, and cultural history is that race doesn’t matter. I know that whites use to be the most popular race in the world but that has changed a lot in the last century. Whites are now the third most popular race in the world. For ethnic there are many different groups in my race. Groups like Christians in my race many people are Christians so they are considered an ethnic group. Things I have learned about ethnics are that there are so many different types of groups in the world. They don’t need to be judged or criticized. There are many ethnics about Americans. Cultural history in my race is things that have shaped the world today. Americans have come a very long way in life. They have shaped this world to what it is today. It is a strong nation, one that is always going to fight for their country. A new report from the Pew Research Center projects that immigration will propel the U.S. population total to 438 million by the year 2050. Right now we are at 303 million and the year 2014. As I have been researching over the past...
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...Intercultural Management | Table of Contents Summary MBI Analysis Excel Cultural Scenario Map Recommendations for a Business Solution References Appendix A – Cultural Summary and Observations Summary 1. Case: Blue Ridge Spain case 2. Key Business/Management Issues: Blue Ridge restaurants, a profitable franchised joint venture is facing dissolution at the hands of its incumbent owners Delta foods corporation. The managing director of Blue Ridge Yannis Costas has been aimlessly attempting to convince his superiors to remain partners, but in turn is completing an imminent foreclosure strategy. Sodergran the in experienced native Fin vice president of Delta Foods is crusading to dictate management and expansionary contract terms, must to the dismay of Blue ridges Costas and its Spanish counterparts at Terralumen, most notably its company president Andres Balaguer. . 3. Goal: Before the new owners Delta Food Company, Blue Ridge Restaurants have been operating with much success. If the joint venture were to dissolve Blue Ridge Restaurants may have to close down. The goal is to resolve the issue with all counter parts and continue with a joint venture. 4. Key Players: Yannis Costas Greek/American, (Blue Ridge Managing Director). Andres Balaguer Spanish, (Terralumen Company President) Mikael Sondergran Finish, (Delta foods corporation vice president). MBI Analysis Cultural Models and Dimensions selected for MBI Hofstede Preference for Individualism...
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...How to Adapt to a New Organizational Culture after a Merger/Acquisition Introduction The organization that I will be researching is Wachovia Bank. Wachovia is a diversified financial services company that provides a broad range of retail banking and brokerage, asset and wealth management, and corporate and investment banking products and services. They are one of the largest providers of financial services in the United States, with retail and commercial banking operations in 21 states from Connecticut to Florida and west to Texas and California, and nationwide retail brokerage, mortgage lending and auto finance businesses. Its retail brokerage operations under the Wachovia Securities brand name manage client assets through offices nationwide. Globally, clients are served in selected corporate and institutional sectors and through more than 40 international offices. Over the last several years Wachovia has always been in the position of purchasing smaller banks. And with most acquisitions, Wachovia has implemented their policies and procedures without taken into account how this would affect the existing employees of the company that was bought. Now for the first time, in company history, Wachovia finds itself on the other side of the table. I’m currently a Business Analyst at Wachovia. I’ve been with the company for almost 2 years, but I’ve been there long enough to understand and adapt to the culture, their policies & procedures, their implementation of diversity within...
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...Cultural Differences Between Married Couple With Two Different Cultures Cultural Differences Between Married Couple With Two Different Cultures ENG-105 Research paper Summer 2014 Prepared by Sumaiya Rahman ID:-1220448030 Section:- 21 Date:- 21/08/2014 Prepared for: Shireen Haque (SnH) Acknowledgements This research paper is has been prepared as a requirement for completing my course on Eng-105 (Advance Composition). Several people have played a large role behind the development of this paper, whether by active participation or through their advice and suggestions, so I will start this paper by acknowledging the people who have provided me with their aid, which was necessary for completing this research paper. First of all I would like to thank my course instructor Mrs. Shireen Haque. She selflessly devoted her time in preparing me for conducting my research and in developing my writing skills. Her invaluable support towards my topic motivated me to conduct my research confidently. Whenever I faced any problems, she often took time off her free period to help me, and I am really grateful to her because of this. I would also like to thank my friends, especially Afsana Shompa, Risalat Rahman, Taskin Ahmed, Shahriar Amin and Richard Chakma, for helping me out in conducting the survey and also for their honest opinions regarding my topic and the questionnaire, and there is no way that I can fully repay the...
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...deviant? In a society, deviance is any behavior or belief that violates the culture’s norms. However, the norms constantly change as the popular culture continues to transform with time. Mass media, on the other hand, is what constantly spreading and influence popular culture as it has becomes part of nearly everyone’s daily life. Since deviance depends in the current culture’s norms, which involves a large group of people in a society, one can say that it learned at a macro level. Therefore, mass media plays an important role in defining deviance socially as it sends powerful messages that spread popular culture to its targeted audience. There are several theories surrounding deviance. One should understand these theories to understand how the media plays apart in defining and promoting social deviance. Three theories that explain deviance are the Strain theory, Opportunity theory and Control theory. While each theory has its own unique analysis on deviance, one similarity they all share is that deviance is the result of unachieved goals through the normal accepted means. As a result, the pursuer of goals will rely on means that the society may not accept. The society will label those who do not follow the norm deviant. However, the label deviance is subjected differently between different groups in the society. While one large group in the society may accept a norm, other groups may not. For example, those who considered themselves hippies during the 1970s may have said that...
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...An Analysis of the Culture of an Organization Student’s Name University Contents 1.0 Background to the Organization...........................................................................................3 2.0 Theoretical Framework.........................................................................................................4 3.0 Discussion of Central Topic..................................................................................................6 4.0 Conclusions..........................................................................................................................13 References..................................................................................................................................15 An Analysis of the Culture of an Organization 1.0 Background to the Organization Every organization has a personality that is unique, that individual character in the society is its culture (Barker, 2010). My company of choice for analysis is The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC). I have used this bank to discuss the central topic in my report.As I have found it to have a strong corporate culture that has continued to improve its efficiency, value, performance and ratings over the years. HSBBC is a privately based organization; it was incorporated in 1865 with a primary objective of increasing trade and commerce between Europe and China. The headquarters of HSBC are located in London...
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