Case Study Of Aetna's Organizational Culture

I am doing my paper on an article called Family giving Bayada Home Health to non-profit but staying at helm by Colleen Diskin and I am going to relate it to the topic of organizational culture. Organizational culture is the mutual knowledge of rules, norms and values of an organization which form the behaviors and attitudes of the company's employees. (p.510 Colquitt, LePine, & Wesson, 2017). Not only does organizational culture influence the company, but it also has a great impact on the employees of that company.   Bayada Home Health Care is a non-profit organization that has been providing home health, adult nursing, assistive care, pediatrics, hospice and habilitation services to individuals since the company was founded in 1975 ("About BAYADA Home Health Care", n.d.).

’s no secret that the years since the Great Recession have been hard on American workers. Though unemployment has finally dipped below six per cent, real wages for most have barely budged since 2007. Indeed, the whole century so far has been tough: wages haven’t grown much since 2000. So it was big news when, last month, Aetna’s C.E.O., Mark Bertolini, announced that the company’s lowest-paid workers would get a substantial raise—from twelve to sixteen dollars an hour, in some cases—as well as improved medical coverage. Bertolini didn’t stop there.

Organizational culture; let’s begin with the definition. “A teaching process in which organizational members teach each other about the organization’s preferred values, beliefs, expectations and behaviors.” In researching which of the eleven areas that are being employed by the immense wireless communications company Verizon. The goal; formal statement sets itself ahead of the others. Granted, the carrier excels in several areas of culture change; but, the one sector that seemed to stand out among the eleven points taught in the week 's reading was Formal Statements.

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Organizational culture is the foundation for organizations to strive and maintain success. Its structure of standards, include planning of human resources, management, health and safety, and the like. Organizations depend on these tactics to gain revenue, marketing strategies, and satisfaction of employees, and build relationships. Management should also be involved to create positive work environments, demonstrate great attitudes, and effective communication to its employees. The organizational culture at Walgreens is based on a variety of components within the organization.

The purpose of this final project What Kind of Change Leadership Will You Provide? Integrated Principles and Theories of Organizational Change Understanding institutional culture

Organizational change continues to occur at a high rate in modern organizations, many people fear change because of the unknown. However, in the case study of HCL the change that happened for this company brought about huge improvement for the company and its customers and employees. Many companies practice that the customers are always right and their needs should always come first. They feel as if one is getting a check and that’s good enough however, early on in the reading owners of the Whole Food market felt that keeping the employees happy was one of the keys to success for them. The happier their employees were the better their customer service was.

In order to increase strength in the position of transformational leadership. In terms of business, Lou Gerstner, the present chairman and CEO of IBM is one of the best examples

An Analysis of Lincoln Electric Company’s Culture through Assessment of its Case Study After thorough investigation of the Lincoln Electric Company’s (LEC) Harvard Case Study, certain understanding and reflections may be made about the company’s culture from a multi-faceted perspectives such as the visual aspects of culture and its maintenance dynamics as observed in the textbook’s Chapter 8. ( Carpenter, Taylor, & Erdogan, 2009) Continuing Influence of Founders at Lincoln Electric It is easily evident from the case study that the diverse aspects of LEC’s operations --- from investors, employees, and customers to how the senior management conducts and approaches its business --- all reflect the philosophy, vision, and ideals of its founders:

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“The study of history has been a study of leaders – what they did and why they did it” (Bass, 2008: 4). New contemporary styles of leadership have emerged that arguably are more successful in the long term (Dawson & Andriopoulos, 2014). This report critically evaluates different styles of leadership to determine if a transformational style will have a more decisive effect on employee motivation and organisational culture culminating in long term prosperity of the business. Fresh perspectives to leadership are required if organisations are to be successful in times of change while at the same time increasing employee morale (Conger, 1999). Studies done by Burns (1978) differentiates between transactional leaders and transformational leaders.

There are many different definitions of workplace culture. Charles Handy an Irish author/philosopher specialising in Organisational Behaviour and Management famously said that, “Culture is the way we do things around here,” but if someone was on the outside looking in how would you explain that to them. Would you have to be working there a long time yourself before you could see “how things work around here”. Because culture in an organisation is what makes it unique, it’s the personality, the attitudes, and the way we interact and relate to each other these are the things that attract the best and Brightest talent to a company. So, if an organisation has a “strong, positive, clearly defined and well communicated culture with strong core values” (Deloitte) that company is onto a winner.

PepsiCo International seeks for employees that are passionate with their work together with an energetic workforce. For this to happen, TMC has came out with their own modified simplified John Kotter’s 8-Step Change Model, it’s a four step process known as the Culture Change Roadmap. The change started in 2004 and with this, it has successfully guided PepsiCo International throughout. Ever since the implementation of the Culture Change Roadmap, PepsiCo International has shown significant improvement. It has first of successfully created an awareness of understand diversity and inclusion especially among the senior leaders.

Amazon’s culture is based on employees’ competiveness, hard work and innovation. This corporate culture however brings a really stressful environment among the organization. For the past years, the company lessened the impact of a negative culture whereas the financial reports as well as the innovation were reported as the most important things. Nevertheless, organizational culture is nowadays becoming really important. It was for example seen in the Harvard Business Review when the CEO of Amazon went from one of the top ranked CEO in 2014 to the 87th position in only twelve months.

Growing customer expectations result in shorter life cycle of products and this means that companies should make their processes more and more flexible adopting modularity and product platforms in order to overcome competitors. Companies who fail to meet dynamic customer needs are doomed to fail. To illustrate this we can consider Tata Motors that designed a car selling at $2500 having identified the need for cheap vehicles and introduced market-pull innovation. Though having some negative feedbacks on its security it is affordable for many families in India.