Lockheed Martin External Environment Essay

Businesses do not operate in a vacuum, to be successful, an organization must create and foster a positive internal environment as well as monitor and react to the external environment to be viable. The organizational culture is just as important to the continued success of a company as trends and events outside of a company. In discussing the impact of an organization's culture, Chuck Williams wrote "Internal environments are important because they affect what people think, feel, and do at work. The key component in internal environments is organizational culture, or the set of key values, beliefs, and attitudes shared by members of the organization" (Williams, 2015). I work for Lockheed Martin, an American corporation which does business globally in aerospace, defense, advanced technologies and security, and I believe "Values" is the most important organizational culture level. I'm employed as a Mechanical Designer for the Networked Training Center, a F-16 aircrew simulator at Luke Air Force Base, where we train pilots to exploit all the capabilities …show more content…
Due to America's founding through the Revolutionary War, and the fact America has been a global super power for the past 71 years, Americans believe our country to be the defender of freedom and a strong national defense is essential to our way of life, no matter the cost. To put it in perspective, the United States will spend 585 billion dollars for the military in 2016. In fact, the United States spends more on defense than the next nine largest military budgets in the world, combined. This militarized belief has permeated through to the core of our citizens, enabling several corporations to specialize almost solely in defense products, allowing them to earn tens of billions of dollars annually. Furthermore, even during economic hard times, profits for American defense contractors remain fairly