The International Academy
The University of Essex one of the UK’s leading academic institutions and has international reputation for high quality research and teaching. It has three faculties that bring schools, departments, centres and institutes. Faculty of humanities has eight schools, centres and departments; one of them is International Academy. International academy offers courses at pre-undergraduate, undergraduate and pre-masters levels. It bring together all the teaching services and programmes which have been developed for students who have a range of non-standard qualification, often from overseas but also from Europe and the UK or have not met entry requirements for a particular degree. This paper will discuss the
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It also offer English language and teacher education programmes. Their innovative courses are popular with both international and UK students because of supportive and international learning environment.
Organisational structure and culture
Each business has each own organisational culture and structure
Culture can be described as ‘the way we do things round here’. In other words, it is attitudes and behaviours shown within the workplace. (Marcouse, 2008)
According to Needle (2004), “Organisational culture represents the collective values, beliefs and practices of organizational members and is a product of such factors as history, product market, technology strategy, type of employees, management style, national cultures and so on”.
The culture of the business has many aspects that they are fundamental to its success or failure. First are the business values. The challenge is to develop a set of values that employees can feel proud of. It should motivate them to work towards the organization’s objectives.
In obedience to University of Essex website, the success of university depends on all staff having the relevant skills, knowledge and experience to undertake their roles effectively. The main values of IA are communication, quality, respect, student centeredness, support and transparency (See appendix 1)
IA staff keep language clear and simple without dumbing down the content, and keep tone friendly and accessible,
Organisational culture can be acknowledged as the organisations personality; which is also referred to as corporate culture. Organisational culture is defined as the process of how things are dealt with within an organisation on a daily basis, affecting the employees and how they work, how they are relating to each other, to the customers and also their managers. Deal and Kennedy defined organisational culture as ‘the way we do things around here’ and Hofstede said it is ‘how people behave when no one is watching’ and ‘the collective programming of the mind’ (Deal and Kennedy 1982, Hofstede 2001).
Armstrong (1999) cites the work of Furnham and Gunter (1993) defining culture as ‘the commonly held beliefs, attitudes and values that exist in an organisation. Put more simply, culture is ‘the way we do things around here’.
Organizational culture is the summation of the underlying organizational values manifesting as collective assumptions, attitudes, beliefs, expectations and norms. Grounded in the customs and
Students are enrolled in the course with the intention of advancing to the next level of English and eventually into regular classes.
Organisational culture describes the values, beliefs and behaviours which provide norms for the environment of an organisation (Anon., 2012). The culture of an organisation sets out to provide structure for employees within a business and often culture shows to be a strong factor in certain organisations. Edgar Schein, a culture theorist explains that the definition of organizational culture must be general otherwise factors may be eliminated which may contribute to culture within a business. (Anon., 2007). Culture impacts on the working procedures in which a business performs and effects the way in which the organisation is run on a daily basis.
Organisational culture refers to the behaviours of people at work, their shared beliefs and values. Schein (1992, p.12) describes this as a set pattern of assumptions that a team shares as they learn working together over a period of time. Organisations
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