How does culture and environment affect institutions and their management?

It is essential to have teamwork within a company. Companies who have embraced the concept of teamwork have reported increased performance in work production, problem solving and it has stimulated new growth. This group project approach has improved employee morale and increased input when managed correctly. The benefits of teamwork can make a positive effect in the company that incorporates this type of teamwork approach.

In today’s complex and ever changing environment, organization continue to experiment with new forms of team development. Some of the most successful teams bring together employees with different talents and perspectives. In this research report, my aim is to have a clear and deep research on teamwork and how it affects businesses so that I can help Tina and Frank who is coming back from overseas to start their own business. Before could anybody start their business, it is very important to learn certain aspects. Team work is one among them. I have included some of the important information I collected through my research in order to help Tina and Frank succeed in their business.

Organization – Leadership: Though Alison Sampson has good business leadership skills, she has no cultural understandings. Hong Kong’s culture is almost opposite to US culture. As per GlobeSmart profile Hong Kong’ culture is more likely Interdependent, Status-oriented, Indirect, and Relationship-oriented culture, whereas US culture is more likely Independent, egalitarianism-oriented, Direct, and task-oriented culture. If the existing systems, structures and culture are not aligned with the new required behaviors, managers must adjust them. After her appointment in Cushy, she first needs to try to understand the organization culture and work culture. Instead, she decided to make the changes directly. Peter Drucker said strategic management is “analytical thinking [formulation] and a commitment of resources to action [execution]. CA’s strategic management is not in the form of analytical thinking and executions of the changes were failed.

Ann’s history is peppered with examples of her poor interpersonal skills, a partner at the St. Louis office said that she alienated most of her group and that she needs a dramatic improvement in her people skills (Ann Hopkins 9). For team projects to be successful, the team must behave as a unit, however, Hopkins’ demeanor would only dismantle any sense of teamwork. Also, a friend of Ann’s who was a partner at OGS named Thomas Beyer reported that she was quite critical of her coworkers. At a lunch one day “[Ann] began to criticize a number of people in the office… it got more vitriolic… [Beyer] began to get angry” (Ann Hopkins 7). This immature conduct is condemned amongst adolescents, let alone an adult such as Ann, this behavior is especially unacceptable from someone who wishes to be promoted to a leadership role.

One of Shawler 's problems is that his team doesn 't communicate with him and doesn 't trust him. In a collectivistic country as Korea they value the overall good of the in-group members as family, colleagues and friends (Francesco and Gold 2005, p. 24). Relationships between employees are like a family link and when it comes to decision-making the management should take account of the employees (The Hofstede Center 2015b). Shawler who is from

The key fact in this case is Walton Arts Center selected a new President by the name of Anita Scism to help bring revenue, and to change things around within the company for the better. Although, Anita was aware of the numerous different challenges that she would have to face, made her want to strive even more for improvement for the Walton Arts Center. “Anita Scism was highly recommended by Bill Mitchell the President who is primarily responsible for the growth and success of another Art Center in the state of Virginia” (Lester, 2007, p.6). Because of Anita’s’ knowledge and skills learned from being under the wings of Mr. Mitchell gave Mr. Mitchell confidence that Anita would be a great candidate for the job. Anita Scism new exactly what

The first issue that must be addressed is the lack of engagement for Sadie’s aspirations. It is understandable that Sadie, as a dedicated employee with defined career goals, would desire a challenging but rewarding work environment. Thus, when she began feeling underutilized and prohibited from taking initiative as she was wont to do in her previous position, this established a significant disconnect between Sadie and her workplace. With this in mind, it is unsurprising that she departed the company shortly after the aboard project concluded.

Several barriers stood in Lisa’s path of becoming a partner. One such barrier was the fact that even though her credentials, commendations, and work ethic were extremely high, she was never respected by the CEO, Michael Breyer, as someone who deserved to be on an executive level. His

For Ms. Myers, being successful in America, did not translate to being successful in South Korea. Although she was an executive, she had many barriers that hindered her from adequately helping the company in the ways that she wanted.

Lydia’s attitude and work performance, prior to her promotion, was positive, bright, and extraordinary. Lydia was very good at her job as a secretary, and she enjoyed going to work every day, as well as, going above and beyond her job expectations. Once Lydia got promoted to her new job, her work performance took a turn for the worse, and her motivation also declined.

To begin, the newly appointed sales manager, Melissa Richardson, was not quite prepared to be put in this position. Even though Mrs. Richardson was the top salesperson in the Chicago branch, she was not prepared to bear

The problem is not Myers' alone, though. She had "no official orientation" and no detailed guidance from her superiors," (p. 124). This is an organizational issue, stemming from poor management decisions related to human resources. Moreover, Myers felt "isolated," as she was not given any opportunity to form relationships with her new colleagues in Seoul (p. 124). Moreover, human resources managers failed to choose someone who might better fit in with the Seoul business culture than Myers, if

Geert Hofstede developed a model which seeks to understand how values in the work place are influenced by culture. He started this study by looking at IBM operations between 1967 and 1973. Data was culled out from 50 different countries which were then extrapolated to 74 nations (the original 50 plus an additional 24).

Although Mary Ann did not want to waste time with this open communication process, she would have realized that Mike and Jeanine work better together when each subordinate individually feels useful and important. Mary Ann got the results out of Jeanine that she expected because she made her feel useful and important. If Mike was properly motivated and given

Although Yong Lee is an “expert” in the field of accountancy, the role she has been given within the business requires more than her accounting skills. She lacks the knowledge and skill of a successful manager. Lee demonstrates her style of leadership to be fairly autocratic (Robbins, 2014), although she deligates work she still ‘monitors them for completition’ (Philip, 2015, Paragraph 1). This is evident when one of her employees, Virat, complains about Lee questioning his every move creating the feeling that she “doesn’t trust him”. She also demonstrates this autocratic style of leadhership by failing to acknowledge the work by her employees and making decisions without consulting her team (Philip, 2015). This notion becomes apparent when Nafisa Rehman criticizes Lee about not acknowleding the “numerous drafts” of “suggested improvements” she had provided, which were then used by Lee compeling those above her to believe they were her own ideas. According to Kouzes and Posner (2008), another trait of a good leader is social skills of which Lee appears to lack. This creates difficulty in communicating with her employees, which is demonstrated when Petrova suggests to her staff to try and “get that help from Lee”, but they all agree that it was “difficult, as [she] was hard to talk to” and if anything needed to be discussed she would write it in a “memo”. This was also evident