The Impact of Corporate Culture and CMS


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Entering developing markets, companies are challenged by various cultures and widespread corruption. This book is a cross-cultural survey that explores the crime preventive effects of corporate cultures and compliance management systems (CMS) in China, India, Russia and Germany. Almost 2,000 managers anonymously reported about the compliance programs in place and cultures in their companies as well as on their experience with corruption at work and in everyday life.Despite differences across countries, results suggest that the elements of an integrity-promoting corporate culture are similarly important in their corruption preventive effects. The second major result is that a CMS can develop its effectiveness only when combined with an appropriately practiced integrity-promoting company culture. Third, companies can counteract the negative external influences of a corruption-prone national culture. Moreover, spill-over effects of an integrity-promoting company culture can make an important contribution to national cultural change. For this reason, an integrity-promoting corporate culture is a contribution to corporate social responsibility.




Competing Values Leadership


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øIt would be unusual for a framework as powerful and predictive as the Competing Values Framework to remain unchallenged and absent of criticism. In addition to updating the examples and references, this second edition provides a new chapter motivated




Global Economic Trends and Their Impact to Corporate Development


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Without a doubt, Global Economic Trends have sustainably changed today's economic and socioeconomic landscape, and the transformational power of GETs will drive industries and markets to a new secular destination. However, there are substantial uncertainties over future economic growth, arising from the complex interplay of domestic and global determinants, including such diverse factors as demographics, advances in technology, capital availability, scarcity of resources, domestic policies and global trade, regimes, environmental policies and financial regulations. Aligning the right information to successfully plan and to implement management principles is challenging to corporations, especially when addressing resource and investment decisions. Therefore, corporations need to establish organizational measures to incorporate the risks associated to GETs into the strategic management process, and to avoid harm to the corporate portfolio. The scientific contribution of this thesis is a tool called GET assessment framework, which can be applied within strategic business planning to tackle risks associated to GETs. The intent of the tool is to analyze the impact of a trend to the actual business situation of the corporation, and to help the management to formulate and to establish counter measures within a scenario planning. To prove its applicability, the GET scarcity of resources is used to demonstrate how the shortage of oil is affecting a virtual corporation that is operating within the chemical industry, which is a recent problem to business planning in the industry. Using the concept of corporate evaluation, which is introduced within the assessment framework, potential risks are identified. By this means, external risks are mapped to the internal environment of the corporation and countermeasures are developed.







Understanding Organisational Culture in the Construction Industry


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Using the construction industry as the subject of his research, Vaughan Coffey investigates the culture/performance link using a new measure of company performance and an evaluation of organizational culture which is largely behaviourally-based.




Handbook of Research on Organizational Culture and Diversity in the Modern Workforce


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Optimal development of contemporary businesses is dependent on a number of factors. By creating novel frameworks for organizational behavior, effective competitive advantage can be achieved. The Handbook of Research on Organizational Culture and Diversity in the Modern Workforce is a comprehensive reference source for the latest scholarly content on components and impacts on effecting culturally diverse workplace environments. Highlighting a range of pertinent topics such as emotional intelligence, human resources, and work-life balance, this publication is ideally designed for managers, professionals, researchers, students, and academics interested in emerging perspectives on organizational development.




Implementing the Corporate Mission


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Inhaltsangabe:Problemstellung: Unternehmensleitbilder (englisch: Corporate Mission Statements) sind in den vergangenen beiden Dekaden sehr populär geworden bei amerikanischen, aber auch europäischen Unternehmen. Das Unternehmensleitbild ist quasi das Glaubensbekenntnis eines Unternehmens: es beantwortet die grundlegenden Fragen warum das Unternehmen existiert, welche langfristige Strategie es verfolgt, für welche Werte es einsteht und welche Geschäftphilosophie es vertritt. Das Leitbild gibt die interne wie auch externe Orientierung des Unternehmens vor, es wirkt sich auf jede Entscheidung im Unternehmen aus. Der Wert eines sauber formulierten und umsichtig implementierten Unternehmensleitbildes ist inzwischen unumstritten. Insbesondere gilt dies in Situationen der Krise, der Veränderung und des Wachstums eines Unternehmens. Aber auch in einer relativen stabilen Umwelt ist das Leitbild ein entscheidender Orientierungs- und Identifikationspunkt, der zu einem wichtigen komparativen Wettbewerbsvorteil führen kann. Diese Arbeit analysiert die aktuelle angloamerikanische Literatur, bezieht jedoch wichtige deutschsprachige Autoren mit ein. Basierend auf der Literaturaufarbeitung wird ein sehr praktisch angelegtes Modell zur Formulierung, Generierung und Implementierung des Unternehmensleitbildes entwickelt. Dieses Prozeßmodell ist umfassend angelegt und gleichzeitig einfach auf jeden Unternehmenstyp übertragbar. Diese praxisnahe Arbeit wurde im Juli 1994 als Abschlußarbeit des MBA-Studiums des Autors an der Azusa Pacific University / Los Angeles mit A+ bewertet (A+ ist die best-mögliche Note im amerikanischen Benotungssystem). Im Dezember 1994 wurde sie vom Lehrstuhl für Marketing an der Westfälischen-Wilhelms-Universität von Herrn Prof. Meffert anerkannt und nach deutschen Kriterien als Diplomarbeit mit der Note 2,7 bewertet. Inhaltsverzeichnis:Inhaltsverzeichnis: 1.Introduction1 1.1.Background of the Study1 1.2.Focus of this Study2 1.2.1.CMS in the Strategic Management Model2 1.2.2.CMS and Corporate Culture5 1.2.3.Implementation Environment6 1.3.Chapter Overview8 1.4.Need for This Study9 1.5.Research Methodology10 2.The Corporate Mission Statement12 2.1.Introduction12 2.2.The CMS13 2.2.1.Defining the CMS13 2.2.1.1.Strategic School of Thought14 2.2.1.2.Integrative Approach18 2.2.1.3.The Ashridge Mission Model20 2.2.1.4.Definition Determination21 2.2.2.Examples: Jack in the Box and Federal Express24 2.3.Distinction to Other [...]




Diagnosing and Changing Organizational Culture


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Diagnosing and Changing Organizational Culture provides a framework, a sense-making tool, a set of systematic steps, and a methodology for helping managers and their organizations carefully analyze and alter their fundamental culture. Authors, Cameron and Quinn focus on the methods and mechanisms that are available to help managers and change agents transform the most fundamental elements of their organizations. The authors also provide instruments to help individuals guide the change process at the most basic level—culture. Diagnosing and Changing Organizational Culture offers a systematic strategy for internal or external change agents to facilitate foundational change that in turn makes it possible to support and supplement other kinds of change initiatives.




Handbook of Organizational Culture and Climate


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The Handbook of Organizational Culture and Climate provides an overview of current research, theory and practice in this expanding field. Well-known editors Neal Ashkanasy, Celeste P. M. Wilderom, and Mark F. Peterson lend a truly international perspective to what is the single most comprehensive and up-to-date source on the growing field of organizational culture and climate. In addition, the Handbook opens with a foreword by Andrew Pettigrew and two provocative commentaries by Ben Schneider and Edgar Schein, and concludes with an invaluable set of combined references. The editorial team and the authors come from diverse professional and geographical backgrounds, and provide an unprecedented coverage of topics relating to both culture and climate of modern organizations.




Corporate Leadership and Its Role in Shaping Organizational Culture and Performance


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Increasing globalization, cutthroat competition, recurrent financial crises, and new social media technology provide unimaginable strain on companies to rethink their human resources practices. Such ever-growing business environments particularly call upon companies to develop sustainable leadership practices and create a well-established organizational climate. By promoting an organizational value system, the leader can influence the work behavior and attitudes of the employees and results. Corporate Leadership and Its Role in Shaping Organizational Culture and Performance is an essential reference source that investigates the influence of corporate leadership on the organizational culture and performance of a company and ways in which this understanding can improve firm effectiveness, nurture entrepreneurial behavior and practices, and establish innovative processes. Featuring research on topics such as intellectual capital, job satisfaction, and gender inequality, this book is ideally designed for managers, executives, business leaders, entrepreneurs, researchers, academicians, and students.