Organizational Culture At Verizon

When reading the case study with this objective; Identify which organizational culture being utilizes as the main focus of the Verizon wireless company; In all honesty, Verizon seemed to have a finger in all four squares. Such as, the Clan culture- with the use of participation and communication. With the facts like this; “we distribute videos via VZTube, our internal YouTube site.” (Kinicki & Williams, 2013) Version has over 83,000 members using this communication and training tool. Secondly, Adhocracy culture- Adaptability, creativity, and agility. Example, Version is using all three areas wisely; Indeed, the training of new device or app’s is released quickly and efficiently to the staff via VZTube; then, the entire workforce watches a tutorial on any implementing updates or changes. (Kinicki & Williams, 2013)

Resuming, with the third “finger in the Pie” Hierarchy culture- Consistency and measurement. Actually, can be seen with Verizon's “New hire training scorecards are used to monitor new hre performance.” Furthermore, customer …show more content…
Kinicki’s training video in unit 4; where he indicates that if a company has a true “Clan” culture; indeed, it will sometimes merge into the other cultures. In a whole, the Verizon company instills the clan culture; when aligning the competing values framework.

Bethel University (2013). Kinicki, A., & Williams, B. K. (2013). Management: A practical introduction (6th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill/Irwin.
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