Essay 2 Single Space Three pages or more Here\u2019s the situation I want you to imagine\u2026 You\u2019ve just been hired into a new management position. You think back to your favorite class back at good ol\u2019 KSU, Mr. Bohan\u2019s Organizational Behavior course, and you remember how often he addressed the importance of building and sustaining a strong, positive culture. Further imagine that you\u2019ve already gathered a good bit of information about the current state of the eight Culture Levers. You found serious deficits that you need to address in four of the Culture Levers. Here\u2019s a summary: Communications: The Communication Lever is very Tight. Information is provided on a \u201cneed to know\u201d basis only. Your department reports that it can be very difficult to find out what it needs to know to get the job done. \u201cThe treat us like mushrooms\u2026they keep us in the dark and feed us worm poop.\u201d Decision Making and Planning: Decision Making and Planning has been strictly Top Down. Your department reports that they have been seriously micro-managed and that they have to get approval for the smallest decisions. \u201cYou can\u2019t buy paper clips here without getting management approval.\u201d Innovation: The Innovation Culture Lever is very \u201cTried and True\u201d. Your team members report that they don\u2019t even bother coming up with new ideas or suggestions. In fact, they tell stories of getting in trouble for the smallest improvement changes they\u2019ve made to processes and procedures. \u201cNew ideas? Heck, accounting still uses an abacus.\u201d Teamwork and Collaboration: The Teamwork and Collaboration Culture Lever is best described as Teamwork Light. The members of your team report that they get along and work well together. On the other hand, previous managers of the team have seen no value in working as teams on solving problems or creating improvements or even getting work done. \u201cWe get along pretty well within the department but if management sees two or more folks talking, they assume we\u2019re wasting work time.\u201d Your task in this essay is to come up with a plan to improve these four levers. Your plan must include specific initiatives for improving each of the four levers. You\u2019ll need at least one improvement initiative for each of the four levers. Here are the criteria for the initiatives you propose: Be specific as to exactly what you will do or what you\u2019ll put into practice\u2026it won\u2019t be enough to say, for example, \u201cI\u2019ll make information more available,\u201d or \u201cI\u2019ll push decision making down to my team members.\u201d You\u2019ll need to describe HOW you\u2019re going to accomplish those improvements. Be very clear as to which principle we covered in class supports your initiative. If one of your initiatives is \u201cI\u2019ll put up posters that promote teamwork all over the department,\u201d you\u2019ll need to clearly point to which principle that we covered in class supports that idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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