Organizational Culture and Successful Functioning

Paper Summary:

This paper discusses the strategies that an organization requires in order to function successfully. It looks at hiring policies and the reward systems, executive leadership roles and responsibilities and employee motivation. The paper focuses on organizational culture and how this affects cross cultural leadership and other aspects of how the organization functions.

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"Any organization depends on its members for its functioning. People however need to be motivated in order to perform their tasks. It is not an easy task to increase the motivation of the employees. The differences between people, their interests and desires, as well as the characteristics of their jobs, together with their abilities make it difficult to come up with an unique motivation scheme for the entire group of people part of an organization. There are various theories regarding motivation. One of the most famous ones is represented by the hierarchy of needs , a theory conceived by Maslow. An organization can motivate its employees through the satisfaction of the five types of needs that Maslow has individuated. The physiological needs for example can be satisfied by the wages. The financial motivation is extremely strong since the amount of money that people gain influences their status and thus their opinion regarding themselves, regardless of the cultural environment they belong to."

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