Bake an Organizational Culture Cake - Example

Recipe Name: Classic Vanilla Culture (Come up with your own title)

Introduction

In a paragraph or two, introduce your document - the purpose and overview of your work.

Ingredients

Aged trust	1 solid, noble mission
2 parts mutual respect	Learning and/or development opportunities
A good amount of solid accountability	2 parts strong team collaboration
A healthy amount of simple fun and humor	Lots of autonomy or empowerment
Timely recognition	Clearly defined expectations
An abundance of fair pay	Regular, clear communication
1 set of comfortable working facilities	Engaged leadership

Directions

1. Start with a noble mission. Add to it leadership, a few clear expectations, regular, clear communication, and all of the mutual respect.
2. Carefully add a healthy amount of simple fun and humor.
3. Place these in the set of comfortable working facilities.
4. Combine and maintain a balanced amount of autonomy and solid accountability. Add to this generous amounts of team collaboration.
5. Do what you say you will do consistently until the autonomy and accountability transform into trust.
6. Whenever the simple fun and humor begin to evaporate, carefully replenish the mix.
7. Add increasing amounts of autonomy and accountability as desired. Mix timely recognition to deserving individuals and groups. Continue this until most if not all misgivings have disappeared and the trust ages. As the trust ages, continue to add dashes of timely praise.
8. Sprinkle generously with fair pay, benefits, and increasing amounts of learning and development support.
9. Check the mission regularly for potency.

Key Ingredient?

Comment on the degree to which the elements from the readings align with what you have experienced regarding effective organizational culture. Address whether you think any one ingredient is more important than the others or not and why or why not.

Justification of Ingredients

Discuss ramifications to the organization if it were to be lacking in that ingredient, just as you could talk about a cake being too bland without enough salt, or too dry without enough eggs, milk, or oil. Discuss the likely benefits of having enough of the ingredient present in the organization. Illustrate with a brief scenario or example, preferably one that you have experienced.

Justification of Directions

Defend your directions for combining ingredients. Illustrate your reasoning with examples, especially from your own experience. Discuss times when you have seen elements lacking to a degree or in overabundance and the effect(s) that the less-than-optimal proportions had on the culture of the organization. Also draw on the readings and briefly discuss whether your experience aligns with Heskett and other sources.

read through the example provided above. Then, please help complete the following:

• list of elements for a successful organizational culture. Include how much of each component is needed.
• List steps for combining the elements to create an optimal organizational culture.
• Justify your inclusion of each item from your list. In your treatment of each:
  • Discuss ramifications to the organization if it were to be lacking in that element. Discuss the likely benefits of having enough of the element present in the organization.
  • Illustrate with a brief scenario or example, preferably one that you have experienced.
• Comment on the degree to which the elements from the readings align with what you have experienced regarding effective organizational culture. Address whether or not you think any one element is more important than the others. Explain why or why not.
• Defend your directions for combining the elements. Illustrate your reasoning with examples, especially from your own experience. Discuss times when you have seen elements lacking to a degree or in overabundance and the effect(s) that the less-than-optimal proportions had on the culture of the organization. Also draw on the readings and briefly discuss whether your experience aligns with Heskett and other sources.