Successful Organization Culture

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Successful Organization Culture The four characteristics of a successful organizational culture are planning, organizing, leading, and controlling. Planning is determined by organizational goals and a means for achieving those goals. Planning is a key component to having success, because a company is always looking to strive to be more successful. To be successful, the company as a whole will need to set new goals, thus planning must take place. Next, organizing is characterized by deciding where decisions will be made, who will do what jobs and tasks, and who will work for whom in the company. To me, I believe this to be the most important key to a successful business; if you as a company are not organized; the company will not last and will fail to become successful. The third key to success is leading, which can be described as inspiring and motivating employees to work hard to achieve the organizational goals. Inspiration and motivation play a key role in how successful a business can be. If the employees are not motivated or inspired to do the work in front of them, then they will not produce the desired amount of work to make the company a successful one. The final factor to have a successful company is controlling, which is monitoring progress toward goal achievements and taking corrective action when progress is not being made towards that achievement. To have success in this context a company, in my own opinion, must excel in at least three of these areas. An organization that seems to be thriving in the previously listed four areas to make a successful business would be Google. Google is particularly successful in the leading category. As we saw in the short film in class, the employees at Google never want to leave the company, because the company has provided them with so many incentives and extra benefits at the company site. As they

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