...Organizational Culture and Climate Organizational Culture and Climate Lisa R. Gaulden Organization Communications 3240 Professor Debra Boyd October 22, 2012 The Correlation Between Organizational Culture and Climate Introduction Organizations are regarded as living, breathing, complex organisms. These organisms are made up of various forces; two of which are organizational culture and organizational climate. An organization must maintain an awareness of not just the dynamics of its culture, but also of its organizational climate. Although theoretically two separate forces, each is closely connected and interdependent upon the other. In essence, an organization’s culture helps to shape its climate just as the organization’s climate has a notable impact on its culture. Organizational culture is developed from the values, beliefs, myths, traditions, and norms of the organization. Furthermore, organizational culture may consist of other sub-cultures. Organizational climate is based on the behavior and environmental perception of the organizational members. The climate of an organization is oftentimes viewed differently in comparison to subordinates and their superiors. Companies would be remiss to focus solely on their culture and not heed to the climate of their organization. Organizational Culture Culture exists within an organization “. . . when people . . . share . . . language, values, beliefs, and interpretations of experience. [Culture] is reflected...
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...There are 4 basic patterns in leadership that when analyzed; can outline the type of climate within any given organization. The climate within the organization can be exploitive, impoverished, supportive, or enlightened. According to Manning & Curtis (2009), “Although members may have considerable influence, organizational climate is determined primarily by leaders”, (Manning & Curtis, p.82). So, based on this week’s questioner; the most recent organization that I was part of “North Chicago Naval hospital”; falls under the supportive organizational climate, simply due to the fact that it placed a great wealth of interest in the professional growth of its members and confidence on members to get the job done with minimal discrepancies. Supervisors from various clinics within the hospital were part of a team that conducted weekly training sessions that enabled co-workers to become well rounded with the medical various fields so that when it came to advancement exams; they would be better prepared. It positively impacted much more than just our potential for professional growth; it also enabled for members from different clinics to be able to help each other when needed, ensuring that the hospital would have a sustained level of manning throughout our clinics. By being properly trained constantly; our leaders were able to have more and more confidence on us, which removed most of the micromanaging within our respective work centers. Also, having an open door policy to voice...
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...The Art of Leadership Facilitator: Professor Keith Grant April 22th, 2013 Organizational Climate Our organization is experiencing a decline in members and leaders. It appears that the impoverish organization has lost its core values and intended direction. While listening to our founded and leader of the organization, I find his messages to evasive and not direct to any point of conclusion. This sets up a non-interesting vibration among the group. The morale of the group is declining as well as the membership of congregates. Decision-making, is left to the board of directors, and the senior minister. Rarely if any are the choices presented to the team. The welfare of the members need more attention and involvement. Goals and objectives need to be reached and its progress more transparent. The five steps that our organization can take are: 1. Stick to core principles and values. 2. Become more open and communicative 3. Maintain integrity throughout all affairs. 4. Thrive toward technology enhancements 5. Educate your team I see these changes as a means to build a community that supports one another. Can this take place? Yes, if great effort in being the best is instilled in the minds and hearts of each individual. By building the team leaders, morale and confidence, through scheduled meeting, we’re able implement the same throughout the organization. People need to bind and feel...
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...Article of ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR BUS568-01 Yuhyung Shin. CEO Ethical Leadership, Ethical Climate, Climate Strength, and Collective Organizational Citizenship Behavior. Journal of Business Ethics Jul2012, Vol. 108 Issue 3, p299-312. Major Hypotheses Although there are a large number of studies on the Ethical Climate, it is still lack of understanding of the antecedents of the Ethical Climate or the relationship between the Ethical Climate and the outcome of work. Ethical Climate (EC) is the formal or informal policies, practices, and procedures of an organization. The EC of an enterprise determines its morality, value, and behavior, and then affect the ethical behavior of its employees. Due to the behaviors of the employees of an enterprise are impacted by same policies, practices, and code of ethics, they tend to have similar views of the organizations’ EC. Many scholars believe that the leader has a significant role in shaping the EC of the enterprise, but the key is to detect that how does the moral leadership of the CEO affect his business. CEO as a role model in the work environment strongly influences the behavior of the employees. In addition, the moral leadership of the senior leaders influences employees' pro-social behavior, and thus contributes to form an EC, and affect the company's ethical conduct. Based on the above, this study proposes the Hypothesis 1: “CEO ethical leadership is positively related to ethical climate.” Organizational citizenship behavior...
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...review: Organizational School Climate Perceptions from Teachers and Principals Name Institution Date Organizational Climate Various academic reformers and researchers have advanced differing definitions of organizational climate yet in all the advanced definitions, the components of an organizational climate seem to be similar. Freiberg and Stein (1999) points to thesis that school climate is the soul and the heart of a learning institution, that is the component of a school that motivates the principal, teachers and the students to be allured to the school and love to stay and always be associated by the school and its environment. The metaphorical reference to a school climate underscores its significance; it gratifies and motivates the school members a feeling of comfort with and without the college, and thus any attributes regarding the school. In lieu of this, the school climate is the aspect of the school that offers it life as well as revealing cherished values of the college. The concepts of organizational climate deals with the perception of the members of the staff about the environment in which they work (Grayson & Alvarez, 2008). This surrounding is influenced and affected by the administration skills projected by the school management which is in turn translated to the motivation and the demeanor of the whole staff membership (Loukas & Murphy, 2011). In a more straight forward way, a climate would refer...
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...Organizational Culture and Climate Organizational culture characterizes a work environment. It comprises all of the life experiences each employee brings to the milieu. Culture is made up of the values, beliefs, attitudes, assumptions and behaviors shared by a group of people. The organizational climate is the way we fell about where we work. Climate can be seen as that which quantifies the culture; it is the collective perceptions about the organization. (Huber, 2010). I currently work in the endoscopy suite of a 222 bed, suburban community, private non-profit hospital. Our unit is small and includes six nurses, two of whom are full time employees; four of us are part-time. We have a full nursing assistant who also serves as our transporter. One of the full-time nurses is our unit manager with the dual role of staff nurse. My nurse manager identified the environment as collaborative in which teamwork is always encouraged, however, recognizes that unity is not always perceived. Generally the environment is positive but we often feel overlooked by the larger organization. I was able to interview all of my coworkers using the Frosythe tool. Some of my findings were as I suspected, and I became enlightened by some new information. The hospital vision statement is to be the leading provider of a care in the region and a national model for quality, service excellence, and fiscal stewardship. Emphasis is placed on a five-point plan that includes innovation, collaboration...
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...Organizational Climate Paper Cassandra Muller, Kateeva Madu, Marvin Dale Watson MGT / 312 June 21, 2016 Professor Tammy Cagle USAA USAA encourages positive Organizational Behavior through and through. It appears they have accepted a "Single behavioral expectation." This is underlined in the USAA Standard. The USAA Standard breaks down the Organizational behavior expected and acquired through they employment process at USAA. Under the USAA Standard, there are five categories and requested behavior is broken down further. The five categories are "Keep our membership and mission first", "Live our core values: Service, Loyalty, Honesty, Integrity", "Be authentic and build trust", "Create Conditions for people to succeed","Purposefully include diverse perspectives for superior results", and "Innovate and build for the future." Understanding the investment and the involvement with your employee can give the company a chance of better moral, better atmosphere for the work family at USAA. Yes, USAA has a positive organizational behavioral standard that is demonstrated through the consistent effort of the employees to reinforce a diverse culture, values, and their mission as financial consultants all over the world. The reinforcement of their moral values is to assist those U.S. military men/women and their loved ones in resting assure that their financial needs are met. The USAA company welcomes those who are deemed truly passionate in delivering the mission. The positive...
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...related with national GDP ( gross domestic product), welthness of the people and tendency of people for consuming. However this tendency pass over “the costs and risks of doing business in the market.” In the article, these costs are grouping as four main title: cultural distance, administrative distance, geographic distance and economic distance. Ghemawat created a schema which is called The CAGE Distance Framework. Cultural distance consists of different languages,race,religions and social norms. Administrative distance comprises of lack of colonial ties, shared monetary or political association, political contrast, government policies and organizational powerlessness. Physical position, absence of common frontier and sea access, greatness of country, weaknesses of communication and transportation networks and different climates are parts of the geographic distance. Economic distance includes income, cost and quality differences. Arranging a company’s CPA for a company compounding distance induces a absolutely different conclusion of a the growth potential of the country. Ghemawat created a unique system and descriptor the CAGE Distance Framework for valuation the international expansion chances for...
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...Final Exam In the beginning of this semester I never thought to think how big my impact on the environment was. And now that the semester is over I know exactly what I as a consumer am doing to the environment. Everyone plays a big role in impacting the environment and everyone can play a bigger role in helping conserve the environment they live in. When it comes to air pollution, global climate change, changes in natural habitat, and water pollution I as a consumer negatively impact those four problems. With air pollution I affect it negatively by driving a car, running electricity, and other ways like using the stove in the kitchen. I affect climate change by driving a car, by buying things that come from factories that release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, and by using electricity. When it comes to changes in natural habitat I impact it by living in a house that was built on natural habitat which then forced the environment to change, also by going to the mall and other stores that were built upon natural habitat. I impact water pollution by using harmful pesticides, buying food that comes from farms that irrigate, by wasting water like letting the faucet run, also by using fertilizer. Those are just some of the ways I as a consumer impact Earth’s environment. The five levels on which people can participate in working towards a sustainable future are as follows, individual lifestyle changes, political involvement, membership participation N60s, volunteer, and...
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...Planet Trojan X is approximately 110,546,002 Miles from the sun. Trojan X is very much similar to desert regions on earth with some exceptions. Such as instead of there being climate region changes, the entire planet has the same climate. Since the entire planet has the same climate type there was not much pressure on choosing the location to settle. There were a few things that proved to be necessary though such as a reliable water source and good food source nearby. We had found a great water source with an even greater wildlife and food source nearby. The timespan between night and day is very similar to earth’s timeframe with a few exceptions. Daytime lasts for only 8 hours and nighttime last for an average time of 16 hours due to the position of the planets in between Trojan X and the sun. In the region that we settled in there is a constant breeze that occurs, but on some nights there is a greater breeze that comes through and lowers the temperature drastically. Much like how the temperature in deserts on earth would be. It is very often that it rains on this hemisphere but that doesn’t mean it never rains. There is a timespan from where we will go 12 months with no rain and then the other twelve months of almost constant rain which makes crops a bit of a hassle for half the year. With the majority of Trojan X being a desert planet, there is an overabundance of sand. There are quite a bit of mountains a wild plants growing on them but over all its almost all sand. ...
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... This quote suggests that Paul’s father’s impression of Darwin is a city consumed by alcohol, and additionally consumed by its incarcerated inhabitants. Inhabitants with poor standards of education and with nothing intelligent to say. Paul’s father feels as though the people of Darwin do not appreciate or acknowledge his son’s talents and are therefore stupid. “The arsehole of the earth” (p9) This contributes to the mood of the book as it displays Paul’s father’s feelings of hatred and embarrassment towards the unfortunate city he lives in. He explains how disgusted he is by Darwin and how to him, it resembles a hole, a black abyss, an empty pit with nothing and no one of interest. Although Paul’s parents reaction to Darwin and its climate is more of a negative one, Paul seems to embrace his new environment. “ I loved the town of booze and blow at first sight. And above all its smell; those hot, steamy perfumes that wrapped about me as we stepped off the plane.” This is an important aspect of the book as it shows a different side of Darwin. The humid, exotic jungle like side to Darwin, which is foreign to...
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...are depleted, environment is degraded. One major component of environmental degradation is the depletion of the resource of fresh water on Earth. Approximately only 2.5% of all of the water on Earth is fresh water, with the rest being salt water. Water scarcity is an increasing problem due to many foreseen issues in the future, including population growth, increased urbanization, higher standards of living, and climate change. Climate change affects the Earth’s water supply in a large number of ways. It is predicted that the mean global temperature will rise in the coming years due to a number of forces affecting the climate, the amount of atmospheric CO2 will rise, and both of these will influence water resources; evaporation depends strongly on temperature and moisture availability, which can ultimately affect the amount of water available to replenish groundwater supplies. An increased population means increased withdrawals from the water supply for domestic, agricultural, and industrial uses, the largest of these being agriculture believed to be the major non-climate...
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...due to human interference and climate change. However changes within these forest and/or ocean ecosystems also impact the human population, as we depend on these crucial bionetworks for our very own existence. • The Boreal forest is a band of forest that stretches across the northern hemisphere, which includes the following countries: Canada, Russia, United States and the northern countries of Europe such as Sweden, Norway etc… (Green displays the areas where the Boreal forest is situated) • Within Canada, the Boreal forest region covers more than 290 million hectares. •This forest is primarily dominated by coniferous trees, namely: Jack Pine, Balsam Fir, Red Pine, White Pine, Black Spruce, White Spruce, Tamarack, Paper Birch, Eastern White Cedar, etc… • The leading cause of most threats upon ecosystem biodiversity is climate change; such is the case in Canada’s the Boreal forest. • Climate change also has an effect on the number of forest fires. • Invasive alien species are also a huge factor in destroying biodiversity in the Canadian Boreal forest. • The Boreal forest is the largest intact forest and wetland ecosystem remaining on earth. • One of, and perhaps the biggest threat to biodiversity in the Boreal Forest is Human infringement. • In summation the best way to preserve the Canadian Boreal forest would be to make people aware. If people are mindful then we can really put a stop to human encroachment, and perhaps climate change all together. We cannot...
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...Final Assignment Report Abstract Environmental design in architecture encompasses factors relating to the natural environment, and can be measured through the various green building council principles and guidelines. However it also needs to be seen holistically as an expression of culture, it defines the human environment. In this way regionalism is important, successful environmental design tempers and is able to manipulate the climate, or human senses, or both, here the thermal experience is introduced and the ecology of heat is important. Today, with the evidence to climate change indisputable, successful tempering, of the climate; this ecology of heat for human comfort range cannot simply be through the air-conditioner, it can turn to GBC's as a first step, but additionally it must look to design for the climate, for regionalism, with specific techniques and strategies. This will be looked at in detail by examining the works of Costa Rican Architect Bruno Stagno, both in his designs for buildings in the tropics, his formation of the Institute of Tropical Architecture (Instituto de Arquitectura Tropical) and his various writings relating to architecture and regionalism. Included in this is his approach to eco principles and how this has, and could benefit a Costa Rican GBC adoption of LEED. Introduction With today's contemporary architectural discourse, and indeed building industry, an outsider looking in can be excused for thinking environmental design is simply...
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...INTRODUCTION The Philippines has a tropical maritime climate and is usually hot and humid. There are three seasons: tag-init or tag-araw, the hot dry season or summer from March to May; tag-ulan, the rainy season from June to November; and tag-lamig, the cool dry season from December to February. Since the Philippines has a hot climate to begin with, we decided to grab the opportunity to build a business that will cater to this kind of weather and to start a new trend regarding food service and food trucks here in the Philippines. Food trucks are a culinary trend in America, And by this reckoning, we might treat food trucks as the latest food fad in the Philippines. Our economy is growing, every people are on the go we need speed, motion, and transport, and we dwell on this as our latest take on "fast-food”. So why ice cream? Ice cream doesn’t have a specific market; it can cater to everyone, kids, teens and adults. Since our location has a big market for adults, we decided to add coffee in our menu. Because coffee is the trend nowadays, we take this opportunity to accommodate to this coffee lover people and add coffee ice cream flavors and a special espresso mud pie just for them. Another part of our market is the kids and teens; we cater them by adding colorful ice creams, different kinds of toppings and encourage testing their creativity by letting them self service in what toppings to put in their ice cream. With all this perks, the Fuzione is starting a trend regarding...
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