Organizational Behavior Terminology and Concepts Organizational Culture An organization's cultural composition encompasses a wide array of structural variables, all of which comprise the ultimate operational atmosphere of the company. Productive capacities and efficiency levels are almost always determined by the effectiveness and receptiveness of an organization's culture. The culture within an organization is also a key determinant of why and how leadership bodies will integrate strategic decisions. Depending of the various specificities

E. The staff can be all Chinese at a Chinese restaurant in Chinatown). A diverse workforce brings many benefits, such as innovative thought and the absence of discrimination lawsuits. In the restaurant business, diversity should ideally reflect the environment. Kitchen staff should be multi-gender if not multi-ethnic. The front of house does not necessarily have to reflect the clientele (particularly with regards to age) but should roughly reflect the demographic of

As mentioned above, communication issues are frequent in this company in the case of top-down communication. This is probably because managers do not appreciate the importance of communication, or they prefer not to include their subordinates in the decision making process. The availability of top managers for their subordinates is another issue that must be modified in order to develop a fair organizational culture. The Glaser test has also revealed some

Resolving Organizational Culture Issues Situational Overview and Background of the Issues The organisation consists of 43 employees managed by a management team of 3 males in their middle 60s: a Director, General Manager, and National Sales Manager. The average age of the employees is 30, and only 3 of the employees are female. The 3 managers all adhere to very outdated authoritarian management styles and communication patterns, routinely resorting to verbal abuse

Team building, group dynamics, talent management, leadership development, and any number of other functional areas are much more about clarity, focus, aligning expectations, and defining roles than creating equality" (Myatt, 2012). In the last twenty years, organizations have come to the realization that the better their employees are at working together, the more successful their organizations will be. Reductions in budgets in the public sector mean that there is an

Communication Communication in the organizations cover all the means and modes, be they formal or informal, by which information finds its ways down, up or even across the organizational network of employees and the management in a given business setting. These modes of communication may contain important information for instance between employees and the managers, to more trivial issues like passing rumors or hearsay from one employee to another as noted