Ideo company structure

Organization culture and design

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Introduction

Every organization has its own distinct culture which differs from other organizations

Organizational culture is termed as shared beliefs, values and norms

Cultures have strong influence on behavior of individual in an organization

Strong organizational culture enhance goal alignment, high level of staff motivation and better ideas from the past

IDEO company case study has been used to transform various company cultures

Organizational culture can be termed as the underlying values, beliefs and assumptions that create a unique psychological and social environment in an organization (Amabile, Fisher and Pillemer, 2014). Organization cultures tend to influence the behaviors and operations of the employees. They dictate the behaviors and ability of an organization to achieve their goals during operation. Successful companies are able to instill certain values that define their operations. A strong organizational culture is essential to the employers because it ensures that the staff is engaged and motivated to actively participate in the mission and goals of the company. Ideally companies that have strong culture have the ability to give better performance results and effectiveness.

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IDEO organizational culture

IDEO has a “collaborative help” culture

Tim brown aims at cumulative excellences through innovation, consistent improvement and internal collaboration

IDEO concentrates on innovation and helping others as well help seeking

IDEO focuses on value flexibility and internal focus rather than control and stability

Their culture emphases are on collaborative efforts among their employees to attain their goals

The company maintains a working environment in which consistency among employees accomplish the company objectives

Collaborative help culture aims at cohesion and internal improvement . Through fostering the internal collaboration demands and commitment to innovation, the company is able to maintain their values and norms hence motivating their employees (Cameron and Quinn, 2011). Their culture is designed in a way that they are able to help others have successful business and assist their employees in management of their projects. The design of their culture is based on help giving and help seeking which facilitates the firm’s success. Creative culture has allowed the company to tackle their problems and making it more flexible to develop their innovation skills

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Techniques of embedding organizational culture

Building essential habit in minds through helping behavior

Recruiting innovative talent

Communicating effectively about the desired culture

Celebrating mistakes

Building a diverse team

Forming inclusive leadership

Building habits in the minds of employee through helping them understand the efficiency of the culture and demonstrating to them effectively promotes establishing of a culture. Embedding culture requires the company to ensure that their leaders are creative and that they have enhanced experience and act as role models in order to ensure that they prepare staff for new initiatives. The company aims at helping others ad therefore celebrates mistakes in order to effectively enhace improvements. This is essential in establishing a new initiative in the company.