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QUESTION
Title: W5A1 Lea MBA
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By Saturday, September 30, 2017, respond to the assigned discussion questions and submit your responses to the appropriate topic in this Discussion Area. Respond to the assigned questions using the lessons and vocabulary found in the reading.Discussion Question - Organizational Collaboration
This week you read about collaboration, what makes collaboration successful, and the role that leaders play in successful collaboration. Some of the more innovative companies are creating a culture of collaboration where everyone has strengths that they bring to the table, and everyone is involved in solving problems and creating new ideas.
For the first part of your post,
Research a company that has a culture of collaboration:
•Briefly assess which of the organization’s characteristics make you think that the culture is collaborative.
•Assess whether the company is successful at collaboration. If so, provide an example that supports your opinion. If not, discuss why it is not successful.
•Analyze the role the company’s top leaders play in the culture of collaboration.For the second part of your post,
•Choose a situation where you were part of a collaborative effort that was successful and a situation where you were part of a collaborative effort that was not successful. These can be from work, from sports teams, or from other collaborative efforts you have experienced.
•Compare these two collaborative efforts to analyze what the similarities and differences were, and why one was successful and one was not.Conclude your post with a three or four sentence summary of the most important point, lesson or takeaways from your research and analysis for your initial post.
Provide a substantive (500–1,000 words) initial discussion posting. Justify your answers with examples and reasoning. Comment on the initial postings of at least two peers. Your responses to other initial posts must be a 100 to 200 word minimum each.
By Saturday, September 30, 2017, post your initial response to the Discussion Area.Before the end of the week, begin commenting on at least two of your peers' responses. You can ask technical questions or respond generally to the overall experience. Be objective, clear, and concise. Always use constructive language, even in criticism, to work toward the goal of positive progress.
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Answer
Initial Post- Organizational Collaboration
Google Company
Google is among the known companies with a great culture of collaboration. It has been recognized with a synonymous culture by setting tone to so many perks and startup benefits. Main organizational characteristics that make me think it maintains a collaborative culture is because it frequently organizes employee trips, free meals, financial bonuses, provides a dog-friendly working environment with an open presentation platform by high-level executives.
The company is successful at collaboration with employees known to be self-driven and highly talented in operation (Lee, 820). Google as a company has widely spread out to keep a uniform culture between its headquarters and related satellite offices, for reinventing and accommodating its employees for management purposes (Wei 50). It acknowledges need for stellar reviewing for payment reasons, perks and company advancement for the good of its employees and customers.
The company’s top leaders are powerful and apply strategies for facilitating adaptation to change and encouragement of desired behaviors. They not only focus on overall corporate value and benefits of collaboration in operation, but also care about how certain strategies and desired characteristics impact on their employees (Majchrzak 1340). Focusing on strategic development before technology is also a key tool implemented by Google’s top leaders. It makes it easier for the firm to adapt to all forms of collaboration initiatives and limits possibilities of deploying technologies without verifying need for it.
Second Post
I once participated in building collaboration strategy on the concept of human element in my working area. I aimed at capturing and communicating the aspect of cumulative wisdom within a workforce, optimizing the institutional experiences and expertise through adequate collaboration with colleagues. My objectives were successful since I managed to change people’s attitude towards each other, and personal behavioral characteristics among workers within the organization. I considered successful collaboration as a human issue, and stressed on need for eliminating silo mentality because it limits working progress whenever departments are unwilling to share quality information with others. It reduces operational efficiency, reduces morale and a major contributing factor to demise of a company’s culture of production, associates with lack of cooperation and productivity loss.
A collaborative effort that however failed to succeed was utilization of diversity in problem solving, since most people portrayed various levels of knowledge and adaptive skills. This effort failed to diversify due to varying levels of thinking among my target population making it hard for implementation. The group members needed to have a similar thinking capacity and undergo training in similar disciplines with same knowledge bases for easier understanding of the fact that diversity allows people to consider certain concepts key perspectives that should not be ignored.
The main similarity in the two collaborative efforts is that they both aimed at helping development of relationships, which were dependent on well-developed personal relationship among the participants. The difference was that I applied more time in the first collaborative effort as opposed to the second one. Achieving my set targets in the second approach needed enough time to help people come in terms with the idea of diversification in operation. Diversification needs a clear outline of people’s strengths and weaknesses to allow building up of personal ties, and develop a better understanding on the concept of collaboration.
References
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Lee, Sang M., David L. Olson, and Silvana Trimi. "Co-innovation: convergenomics, collaboration, and co-creation for organizational values." Management Decision 50.5 (2012): 817-831. Majchrzak, A., Jarvenpaa, S. L., & Bagherzadeh, M. (2015). A review of interorganizational collaboration dynamics. Journal of Management, 41(5), 1338-1360. Rothaermel, Frank T. Strategic management. McGraw-Hill Education, 2015. Wei, Yinghong Susan, Saeed Samiee, and Ruby P. Lee. "The influence of organic organizational cultures, market responsiveness, and product strategy on firm performance in an emerging market." Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science 42.1 (2014): 49-70.
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