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Corporate Culture Exercise (2 1/2-4 pages)
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Corporate Culture Exercise
(2 1/2
-
4 p
ages)
This exercise is to determine the personality of a corporation, what the leaders want to
achive (driving force) and the way they structure their business (strategy) which affects
the way workers live day
-
to
-
day and long term.
To complete this
f
ill in the following rubric (use both the write
-
up and the pictures):
1. What is the name, location, type of business, and business structure (privately held,
stock
held, profit, non
-
profit).
2. What is the goal (driving force) of the busi
ness; what do the owners want as their
return?
(remember for
-
profit businesses’ goal is
not
to serve customers. That is perhaps
part of
their strategy).
3. What elements of appearance and physical setting, including traffic pattern do you see
in
the pictures and from the write
-
up?
3a. What does this tell you about the goals of the business, whom management values,
etc.?
4. What does the company say about itself and what does that tell you about what
management thinks is
important?
5. How does the company greet strangers and what does that tell you about what
management thinks is important?
6. How are people compensated and what does that tell you about what management
thinks
is important?
7. W
hat do employees say about their workplace (interviews) and what does that tell you
about what management thinks is important?
.
8. How do employees and managers people spend their time, how do they dress and what
does that tell you about what ma
nagement thinks is important?
.
9. Do you see any glass ceilings to promotion and success (that is, where you see people
like yourself (at all?; in what jobs?; how often promoted?)?
10. What is their business strategy (model) to succeed
?
11. What is their strategy in dealing with employees to make sure they succeed
according to
their business model?
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