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quarta-feira, julho 19, 2006

Cultural attributes of a successful company

“Cultural Attributes of a Successful Innovative Company:
Honesty - The degree to which each employee has total confidence in the integrity, ability, good character of others, and the organization, regardless of role.
Alignment - The degree to which the interests and actions of each employee support the clearly stated and communicated key goals of the organization.
Risk - The degree to which the organization, employees, and managers take risks.
Teams - The degree to which team performance is emphasized over individual performance. Empowerment - The degree to which each employee feels empowered by managers and the organization.
Freedom - The degree to which self-initiated and unofficial activities are tolerated and approved throughout the organization.
Support - The degree to which new ideas are welcomed from all sources and responded to promptly and appropriately.
Engagement - The degree to which all levels of the organization are engaged with the customer and the operations of the organization.
Stimuli - The degree to which it is understood that unrelated knowledge can impact product, service, and operations improvements.
Communication - The degree to which there is both planned and random interaction between functions and divisions at all levels of the organization.”

Jack M. Kaplan e Anthony C. Warren
Patterns of Entrepreneurship. 2nd Edition, Von Hoffman Press, Inc., 2007, Page 275.

(citação extraída de SBANC Newsletter, July 11, 2006, Issue 429-2006, http://www.sbaer.uca.edu/ )

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Anónimo disse...

MUITO BOM ESTE PEQUENO TEXTO SOBRE AS QUALIDADES DE UMA ORGANIZAÇÃO QUE CONDUZEM AO SUCESSO E À INOVAÇÃO. A EQUIPA REITORAL E TODOS OS DIRIGENTES ACADÉMICOS A DIFERENTES NÍVEIS BEM PRECISAVAM DE PENSAR UM POUCO NISTO.