Name MGMT 317 - Organizational Behavior Module 1 Xerox Case Study Xerox Case Study Diversity of employees and cultures in organizations possess the ability to bring about tremendous transformational changes coupled with a great deal of benefits. Fortune 500 companies such as Xerox are aware of these benefits, so how would Xerox define diversity, and how have its definition revolutionize over the years? For one to accomplish anything they first have to be motivated; so what are some of the reasons why Xerox should be motivated to diversify their workforce? And how have Xerox demonstrate its values workplace diversity? The leaking pipeline phenomenon; has Xerox embody or defy it?
Supreme Court. "Because our population is diverse, and because of the increasingly global reach of American business, the skills and training needed to succeed in business today demand exposure to widely diverse people, cultures, ideas and viewpoints," the companies -- which included Microsoft, 3M Co., Eastman Kodak Co., Lockheed Martin Corp. and Pfizer Inc. -- wrote in the court brief. "Employees at every level of an organization must be able to work effectively with people who are different from themselves. (The companies) need the talent and creativity of a work force that is as diverse as the world around it." The increasingly global nature of commerce makes it imperative to have employees who understand various cultures, said Joyce Tucker, vice president of global diversity for Boeing Co.
These forces encompass raw materials, instant capital, and people. Other factors PepsiCo faces are labor skills, socioeconomic opportunities, including uniqueness, and division in population, labor costs, gender, race, class, language barriers, trading arrangements, technology, and ambiguous rules (International Business, 2005). Response PepsiCo responds by defining core beliefs by making the utmost of diversity assets and aptitudes to aid corporate success. The organization takes abundant care to interlace diversity and presence into the culture to progress as a global, and multicultural organization adept at serving the world’s societies effectively ("Performance with Purpose" 2011).
Due to the size and nature of this large establishment, it is necessary to maintain enough senior managers to oversee all of the divisions (“Strategic Audit of Lowe's Companies, Inc.,” 2011.) Lowe’s expands across different regions and countries, which makes a divisional organizational structure ideal. A divisional organizational structure consists of different divisions grouped around specialized departments such as sales, marketing, safety, and human resources. This allows each division to have some autonomy when making decisions inside the division (“Organizational Structure,” 2013.) A number of approaches were considered to help Lowe’s lower expenses and increase profits.
How do you differentiate between a stereotype and a cultural characteristic? How do you determine this differentiation? Well I believe you have to take each terminology at hand and explain definitions to be able to comprehend and differentiate between stereotype and culture characteristic. Love to know Corporation explains, “A stereotype is a well-known idea or image of a person or idea that is held by a number of people. (Noun)…Stereotype means to attach an idea or image to a person who belong to a particular group (verb) (LovetoKnow, Corp., 2011).
Q. ‘The decentralisation of retailing and other services has had a major impact on urban areas.’ To what extent do you agree with this statement? City centres and central business districts are usually recognised as being places where businesses, major shopping areas, tourist attractions and major corporate companies are based. They reside in the city centre as it is the place where bodies of people will swarm to, making it successful in earning and boosting the economy. However, when decentralisation occurs, urban centres suffer many negative impacts.
It is measurably more expensive to attract a new customer than to retain an existing customer. So why do so many companies focus their efforts and their dollars solely on new customers? It is because every organization is committed to growth and growth is associated with building new business. However, in order to maintain continuous profitability, companies must establish and maintain profitable relationships with all of their customers (past, current and future). Business leaders must do four things to have profitable customer relationships.
In addition there are many disciplines that make use of the term culture such as history, sociology, anthropology and archaeology. This makes it challenging for one common definition of the term culture to be known, however common themes within these disciplines can be seen. The notion of a high and low culture then comes under the idea of judgment based on the hierarchy of society, these ideas of high culture and low culture then lead to the discussion of the value of culture (Barker, C 2007, p. 48). The term culture started to be used in critical theory during the time of Karl Marx, him and many theorists influenced by him such as Edward said and Antonio Gramsci, first used their theories to justify the concept of the word culture. These theorists used the term to describe the social formation in their studies of anthropology (Patterson, T, C 2009, p 91).
How do the texts that you have studied, explore the assumptions underlying the concept of belonging? The notion of belonging, as well as its antithetical nature, refers to the state of being accepted and feeling at ease within a particular environment or situation. It is further defined to be in relation with members, adherents or inhabitants of a specific place. This particular concept is intensely explored throughout the avenues of literature and film, and notions of belonging are interplayed by means of evident themes and motifs, which differ within each text studied. The themes of; relationships and connections that one has with those around them, the state and extent of acceptance and understanding one feels, and ones individual identity are manifested throughout Raimond Gaita’s, ‘Romulus, My Father’ as well as the film ‘The Black Balloon’ directed by Elissa Down and Bruce Dawe’s poem, ‘Drifters’.
Diversity is a very proud term representing the United States as a melting pot containing many different races in a country. As Caucasians always is the biggest group of the population, but the other difference races has been growing fast such as Hispanic and Asian and these two groups will grow twice as many by 2050 (Kelly & McGowan, 2012 p.12). Diversity change will shift way of living, spending, working style from location to location depend on the change. The changes would impact the investment direction of companies because location, race, living style, spending habit and power of work force. Therefore, companies would have to recalculate on their future investment strategy.