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In your continued role as NoJax's organizational behavior consultant, you will examine their culture and how management can help employees adjust to change. You will need to use the management profiles in the company background document to analyze leadership traits and styles. NoJax needs you to write a report of their company's culture and how change may impact employees and their relationship with management.
- Assess the company's culture and provide your analysis, including the relationships between management and employees.
- Identify the company's structure and explain how it impacts the culture.
- Provide an analysis of management leadership traits and leadership styles. Assess how those traits and styles may be impacting the company's culture.
- How might a change in structure or management style impact the culture and employees?
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Running head: CORPORATE CULTURE
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Corporate Culture and Change
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CORPORATE CULTURE
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Corporate Culture and Change
The Nojax Culture
As a start-up business in 2010, Nojax did well, and it had the right structure where the
co-founders stayed active in the daily running of the company. Power is centralized, meaning
that there is autonomy of decisions in the organization; employees do not have the freedom to
make quick important decisions that may not require the consultations of the top level
management. The senior management is exercising micromanagement which makes sense in
the context of a small business whose goal is to grow. The employees are also monitored
closely, and reports of every activity undertaken daily are recorded and reported, at the same
time, mistakes are recorded, and they accumulate points. The lack of margin for error put
employees under tension, and they always strive for perfection, and that does not provide
room for learning. Management and employees have a rigid relationship that is reduced to
reports, rules, and policies. There is no connection between the management and employees
since decisions are made horizontally and they involve too many consultations. The style of
leadership is autocratic, and it includes too many bureaucracies; this causes delays in
decisions (Mark Mallinger, Don Goodwin & Tetsuya O’Hara, 2019).
Hiring decisions are made by senior management without the help of a human
resource department. Lack of an HR department dedicated to staffing decisions means that
the selection process is not t...
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