Amazon's Culture: A Case Study

  It was a positive environment and climate for success instilling commitment, inculcating pride, and building team spirit (page

Organizational culture is the shared beliefs and values that influence the behavior of organizational members. While on the hard-organizational climate is the shared perceptions among members regarding what the origination is like in terms of management policies and practices (Uhl-Bien, Schermerhorn, & Osborn, 2014). The company Chipotle has been successful due to their organizational culture. The company focuses on people and motivates them to progress in the company. They only promote employee that are within the company, instead of outside hires, by doing this, it motivates employees.

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.).

As our focus shifts from being on the best corners of Main & Main, to being America’s most loved health and beauty destination, we must ensure our leadership internalize and practice our cultural beliefs as well as share the cultural beliefs with team members. Our cultural beliefs should guide our daily actions as they are incorporated in all aspects of team member engagement and store operations. Cultural beliefs determine the way in which we conduct meetings, generate and execute ideas, and solve problems. Moreover, talking about the cultural beliefs in a consistent way will help us gain momentum in driving our cultural beliefs and re-energize the Walgreens culture.

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.

If employees are not familiar with the company’s goals and what the company is expect from them they won’t be able to perform good. Successful organizational culture requires a team work. Johnson should establish the espoused values of the company. These are the stated values and norms that are preferred by the company (Kreitner, 2013, p.63). Johnson should set the basic assumption which values employees (Kreitner, 2013, p.65).

Introduction The power and utility of the internet is common knowledge to literate people. It has fundamentally shifted the economic land scape to such an extent that its era is dubbed the new economy (Turban et e, 2011l). At the heart of this new economy is e-commerce. E-commerce is simply doing business online. Amongst the companies at the pinnacle of the new economy and more specifically e-commerce is Amazon.

It markets itself as a “fast-paced, innovative and collaborative environment.” This environment aims to do things the right way and ensures secrecy. The organizational culture that Steve Jobs created helped the employees and encouraged them to debate and to give different ideas in order to contribute and be a part of the firm’s success. Moreover, the culture motivated all the employees to believe in the vision set in the beginning. The core values found in the culture of Apple are the reason behind their successful products.

The Importance of a Company’s Culture The culture of a company is one of the most important and sometimes overlooked factors in an organization. The culture can increase employee engagement and increase productivity which will allow a company to reach its goals, “From productivity and engagement in the organization’s day-to-day, to an employer brand that naturally fuels recruiting efforts, to creating a lasting brand that customers immediately recognize, there’s no escaping it – culture radiates outward into the marketplace” (Straz 2015). The culture can have a great impact on the employees. Employees thrive in a positive working environment and the ability to engage with their managers without fear of retaliation.

The importance of organizational culture: We can define the Organizational culture as a system of beliefs and shared values about what’s appropriate and important in an organization it also includes relationships and feelings externally and internally. Every organization’s values are supposed to be unparalleled and are widely shared and reflected in daily practice, relevant to the strategy and organization purpose. It is necessary to understand the culture of the workplace setting as well. This is where the human resources management policy is very important because it reflects and reinforces organizational values and culture. Alphabet games wants to increase the small games and survive the big profitability The Developers are struggling to control escalating costs, technological progress and consumer demands and economic conditions all combined to challenge business models and strategic positioning.

You cannot sit through an interview or work a day in our offices without hearing a reference to our values and mission. We do more than talk about or core ideology, we live our values by treating our employees and customers well, working hard, and being honest and transparent. We live these values as a team, and it has enabled us to reach goals that we would not have been able to attain individually. While our leadership team is comprised of several successful industry veterans and thought leaders, we have designed a deeply collaborative environment. Not only is our organization flat, so everyone has access to every layer of management, our employees largely drive our technical direction through participation in various committees.

Amazon has achieved many milestones from starting in the founder’s garage in 1994 to the growth in revenue to US$147.8 million in 1997 and then to the revenue growth of US$177.866 billion in 2017 (Amazon, 2018a, Amazon, 2018b and Jurevicius, 2018). These milestones were achieved through tenacious focused strategies of meeting their customers’ needs and wants. These strategies have maintained and expanded their customer base locally and internationally and have increased its market shares and profit over the last two decades. In addition, projection for the company’s growth and expansion for the next three to five years looks positive as it predicted to grow at the same rate with its expansion internationally and continued focused in satisfying consumers’ wants (Amazon, 2018a). Although, some factors such as governmental policies, legal issues and natural disasters could pose a threat to Amazon’s growth plans, the management team led by the founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) are working on mitigating the risk (Amazon, 2018a).

5 – Main risks going forward for Amazon.com are to loose its competitive advantage because of opportunities that Internet offered to its competitor : low prices, deliver, costumer’s service, etc. Moreover, if the business develops, it may encounter logistical problems and limits : geographical and logistical constraints (energy, delivery and connection and some contries) and legislative constraints (censorship, taxes and state agreement : Corea, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, etc). Founded in 1994, Amazon started as an online bookstore and quickly became popular as it received high marks on several Internet rankings. Today, Amazon.com, Inc. is the world's largest online retailing company headquartered in Seattle, WA

3.3 Customers and Competitors Customers Amazon customers consist of upper & middle class social groups who have inclination towards using E-commerce portals and are comfortable with online shopping. Majority of the customers are professionals or businessmen who are busy with their business/Job & find it convenient to purchase anything online rather than visiting the physical outlet in order to save time & money. Furthermore, the customers might also be the ones who are searching for deals.

1. Primary Target-Market — main consuming group/Secondary Target-Market —additional sales potential Amazon’s target customers are people who have access to the internet and have financial paying tools such as credit card, debit card, paypal etc. futher, the firm’s clients do not stay within the united states only. Amazon has reached its hand to online customers in other continents. Further the company’s prime program seems to appeal more to older shoppers than the younger ones since data shows that individuals whose age 40 or more are more loyal to the service than people whose age is less than 40.