Organizational Culture

It is important to understand yourself as a leader and how you fit into an organization. In this journal assignment, you will discuss your individual experience with organizational culture and how it has impacted communication and leadership within an organization you are familiar with. This could be an organization you currently work for, or one you have worked for in the past. You may wish to revisit the results of your personality assessment from your previous work and discuss how your leadership style connects to the organizational culture you describe here.

Prompt
Revisit your Big Five personality assessment and the related journal assignment, and consider who you are as a leader. Think of the culture of an organization that you currently work for or have worked for in the past, and describe your role within it based on the organizational culture and your disposition.

Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:

Organizational Culture: Describe the organizational culture of the organization of your choice. Consider the following in your response:
What is the organization’s mission and vision?
How have you seen the organization’s mission and vision reflected in daily activities such as communication, management approaches, priorities, and so on?
What does the organization value?
Impacts of Culture and Leadership: Describe the impact of culture and leadership on the employees and day-to-day business, providing examples. Consider the following in your response:
How did organizational culture play a role in the examples you provided?
In the examples you provided, was the communication or behavior aligned with the culture the organization promotes? Why or why not?
Leadership Style and Personality Traits: Discuss your leadership style and personality traits; focus specifically on how your leadership fits into an organizational culture. Consider the following in your response:
What traits make you a strong leader, and how does this connect to the organizational culture you described?
Guidelines for Submission
Your submission should be a 1- to 2-page Word document with 12-point Times New Roman font, double spacing, and one-inch margins. Sources should be cited according to APA style.

SAMPLE PAPER

COMPANY: Organizational Culture

The company’s vision under consideration is “to be the company that best understands and satisfies the product, service, and self-fulfillment needs of the people across the world.” The company’s mission statement is, “Build the best product, cause no unnecessary harm, use business to inspire and implement solutions to the problems facing humanity.” The organization’s mission and vision are reflected in daily activities such as communication, management approaches, and priorities in various ways. First, there is a lot of information sharing to ensure that every employee is well acquainted with what they are supposed to be doing at any given time. In order to ensure that we deliver value to our customers, the employees have been empowered in such a way that they can take responsibility ad ownership of the success that the company achieves. This is done by involving the employees in decision-making, empowering them to produce good results, and being involved in societal initiatives (D’Innocenzo, Mathieu & Kukenberger, 2016). This enables it to produce the best products and offer good service, while at the same time creating a positive impression among customers. The organization values satisfying customers through happy and competent employees.

The organization has instilled a culture of ownership and open communication. This has led to a sense of direction and accountability in the organization. All the employees want to be part of the good results that are attained by the organization. For example, the employees are frequently informed on the extent to which they are achieving their daily targets. This makes it possible for them to improve their effort on a continuous basis. The employees also check on each other and give peer reviews that help on improving performance. The culture of open communication makes it possible for the employees to be aligned with the objectives and increase their efforts towards the same. The behaviors are aligned with the culture the organization promotes.

My leadership style is participative or democratic. As much as I make final decisions, the input of my juniors contributes to the final decisions that are made (D’Innocenzo, Mathieu & Kukenberger, 2016). This makes the employees satisfied and therefore produces the best results. The employees own the organizations, and when the company succeeds, they also succeed. This has led to customer satisfaction because their needs are addressed by satisfied employees. Therefore, the leadership connects to the organization’s culture of zero-rating the level pf ham caused, customer satisfaction, and building the best products for the customers.

As for the character traits, I am straightforward, competent, tolerant, and accommodative to different opinions. This explains why I have a good relationship with my juniors, and I have been able to take seriously their contributions towards any milestone that we have attained. The traits make me a strong leader in the sense that I can steer the goals of an organization forward through the input of the people while at the same time, maintain a good relationship with them. As for the organization’s culture, the personality traits have made it possible for me to instill standards among the employees that make them deliver excellent quality, hence customer satisfaction (Yahaya & Ebrahim, 2016). The employees are also aware of the social responsibilities that there supposed to observe, e.g., addressing environmental pollution. All these align with the culture of the organization.

References

D’Innocenzo, L., Mathieu, J. E., & Kukenberger, M. R. (2016). A meta-analysis of different forms of shared leadership–team performance relations. Journal of Management, 42(7), 1964-1991.

Yahaya, R., & Ebrahim, F. (2016). Leadership styles and organizational commitment: a literature review. Journal of Management Development.