Read the original post from Layla here:\u00a0 https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/ldrs501\/2018\/11\/12\/cooperation-in-a-national-company-of-china-seems-effective-yet-conflicts-lie-underneath\/<\/p>\n
Reading through your post, Layla, I was struck by how easy it would be to confuse compliance with cooperation.\u00a0 State Grid sounds like a large company with many departments who need to coordinate with each other.\u00a0 Your role in training and educating employees must be critical to ensuring alignment with the company\u2019s MVV.\u00a0 When you mention that you must include the Communist ideal of \u201cworking for the collective goals, yielding in conflicts, and teamwork\u201d (Zhang, 2018, para. 2), I wondered how closely that aligns with strategic teams where \u201ctrust and strong relationships must also exist between the team and other key teams in the organization\u201d (Hughes et al., 2014, p. 210)?\u00a0 Is this more of an ideology of obedience for greater uniformity or are these ideals to truly have employees at all levels think in alignment with the MVV and thus produce more innovative and creative solutions to the company\u2019s issues?<\/p>\n
It is difficult for me to grasp the day-to-day functioning in a business world since I have been in the classroom several decades.\u00a0 Systems of rewards for quality work and company allegiance do not exist in my workplace.\u00a0 Years ago I discovered the odd truth in education that those who need little assistance and are hard-working, innovative thinkers usually get more work and more challenging classes; teachers who are less efficient, take all their sick days, or lament a great deal tend to receive more assistance or grace:\u00a0 \u201cthose who do, do more and those who don\u2019t, get help\u201d seems to be the mantra.\u00a0 I do not think this model would work well in your company or in many businesses, do you?<\/p>\n
Integrity.\u00a0 You mentioned integrity is a core value for your company (Zhang, 2018, para. 1).\u00a0 Who is to show integrity and how is this core value modelled by the leaders?\u00a0 \u201cLeading with integrity is one of the great challenges of leadership\u201d (Suggs, 2012, para. 1). \u00a0Since leading with integrity means to lead completely (Sugg, para. 4) and TSL leaders seek to build up their followers, leaders with integrity should put others first.\u00a0 Is this exemplified in the leaders of your company?\u00a0 Galbraith (2014) discusses that training in an organization needs to be continuous and targeted at cross-unit participants because it builds relationships which adds to the network (p. 145). Do you also train leaders, Layla, or do you train staff according to the changing needs of the organization and the vision of its leaders?<\/p>\n
At the end of your post you discuss some of the conflicts that occur in your company more frequently at the lower level, and, to female workers.\u00a0 The inability for their voices to be heard by leaders at higher levels must create inequities among employees.\u00a0 How can this be addressed in your company?\u00a0 Is this a problem for which people are seeking a solution or is this just an inevitable condition of a large company?\u00a0 Hughes et al. say that often \u201ctoo little attention is paid to the human element of strategy\u201d and yet \u201corganizations need to be as intentional about leadership strategy as they are about business strategy\u201d (2014, p. 12).\u00a0 Is the company growing in its awareness of the human emotions, needs, and beliefs that can impact their efficiency in maintaining alignment with their core values?<\/p>\n
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Galbraith, J. R. (2014). Designing organizations: Strategy, structure, and process at the\u00a0<\/em>business unit and enterprise levels<\/em>. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.<\/p>\n Hughes, R., Beatty, K. & Dinwoodie, D. (2014). Becoming a strategic leader: Your role in\u00a0<\/em>your organization\u2019s enduring success<\/em>. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.<\/p>\n Suggs, D. (2012) Leading with integrity. Retrieved from http:\/\/www.delsuggs.com\/articles\/Leading%20with%20Integrity.pdf<\/p>\n Zhang, L. (2018). Cooperation in a national company of china: Seems effective, yet conflicts lie underneath [Blog Post].\u00a0 Retrieved from https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/ldrs501\/2018\/11\/12\/cooperation-in-a-national-company-of-china-seems-effective-yet-conflicts-lie-underneath\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Read the original post from Layla here:\u00a0 https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/ldrs501\/2018\/11\/12\/cooperation-in-a-national-company-of-china-seems-effective-yet-conflicts-lie-underneath\/ Reading through your post, Layla, I was struck by how easy it would be to confuse compliance with cooperation.\u00a0 State Grid sounds like a large company with many departments who need to coordinate with each other.\u00a0 Your role in training and educating employees must be critical to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1015,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,116,102,96,115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-et1-mssl","category-health-education","category-health-and-education","category-ldrs501","category-post-7-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/sally81\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/sally81\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/sally81\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/sally81\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1015"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/sally81\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/sally81\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":398,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/sally81\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions\/398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/sally81\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/sally81\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/sally81\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}