Virgil Tibbs

Introduction An organization’s culture can affect many aspects of, and levels of employees across the company. It starts with the implementation of strategies towards the ability to achieve company goals. This is usually decided by the board of directors or the management team of the organization. I am going to discuss the culture of RR Donnelley (RRD) and more specifically the Paul Hastings department which includes the DPS (document processing services) team. Explanation to the Culture of my department RR Donnelley’s main focus to my understanding is to provide a high client satisfaction amongst providing services of a global communication and collaboration of content. More unambiguously, that moderates costs, intensifies revenues, and epitomizes amenability (End-to-End Solutions, n.d., p. 1). Although this is a main component of the organization’s culture and the focus of company goals, there are several sub departments within RRD that also support this emphasis. The Paul Hastings department or DPS, provides these services exclusively to the legal affiliates of the Paul Hastings firm. While working with attorneys, paralegals, and client service professionals, DPS upholds RRD’s organizational culture and goal orientation by providing high quality client satisfaction, and also delivering a swift, precise product. With that said, I believe the operations of DPS promote the goal congruence of RR Donnelley. Communication style RRD’s communication style is to respond…

Virgil Tibbs vs Bill Gillespie After finishing the murder mystery of Mr. Enrico Mantoli in the climatic novel made by John Ball, In the Heat of the Night, the characters have significant personalities that intrigue the audiences to study more about. Two people, Virgil Tibbs and Bill Gillespie are major actors that represent the history culture of America. Virgil Tibbs, a police officer from Pasadena, California came from the north side of America, where Negroes are respected while Bill…

Employee Retention Introduction The main reason in reviewing this article, Talent retrention: Six technology-enabled best practices by Oracle (2012) is to explore employee retention by defining and exemplifying the relationship between employees and their bosses. According to Oracle (2012), many organizations suffer massive losses from low employee turnover. In situations that there are competitive employees, the organization has to advertise the vacant positions, train or coach new employees,…

Habitat for Humanity Self-Reflection Assignment The organization that I chose to complete my hours was with Habitat for Humanity. Habitat for Humanity is about helping to build decent, safe and affordable housing, which include houses for single families and multi-unit houses (Habitat for Humanity, 2018).Habitat for Humanity's mission is to build affordable housing for families who are financially unstable, they also have a statement that truly reflects on what Habitat, "Seeking to put God's…

Corporate Culture fosters innovation using global factors Corporate culture can be defined as beliefs and behaviors that determine how a company 's employees and management interact and handle outside business transactions (Corporate Culture, N.D.). Global factors that affect organizations are political, economic, social and technological. Political factor can include any of the following, laws of data protection to environmental and trade police’s, to government stability and changes in tax…

2. BIBLIOGRAPHY LEADERSHIP The concept of leadership according to Daft (2000:256) is an ability to influence the organization members’ attitude needed for strategic application. Leadership includes persuading, motivating, change to improve a company’s value and culture. Schermerhorn (2011:453) stated that leadership is a special case about interpersonal influence to push other people or other groups to do what the leader or manager wanted. Furthermore, a view on leadership is also told by…

As a young child, my mother would always encourage me to do my best in school and go beyond what was expected of me. I was not allowed to go outside and play with my friends unless I had finished all of my homework. I could not understand why my mother pushed me so hard, given the fact that she did not complete college. This is not to say that I thought less of my mother, but as her daughter, I wanted to be just like her. Being able to obtain a Bachelor’s degree was the best decision I could…

GENCO and Home Depot have teamed up to develop what they call the Home Depot Liquidations Do-It-Yourself Profit. Any return a consumer sends back to Home Depot ends up in the GENCO liquidation center where they prepare up to 500 pallets a day for resale at a discount price on GENCO Marketplace (GENCOMarketplace GMP, 2013). Nick Stoner, GENCO Marketplace Store Manager, says that most returns they process in the liquidation center are fit to be resold at nearly perfect shape, and that only a small…

Apollo started started off first recently volunteered in a vaccine drive in October with mercer county after our meeting. Mercer county medical reserve corps came and spoke to our class giving a presentation and then asked for 30 of our classmates to help participate in their vaccination drive at there fairgrounds. We gladly accepted and we received our training and some online modules in the following weeks.Our senior class arrived at 9:00am signed in got our orientation and reflective jackets…

Goodwill has been in business for 113 years, and was the brainchild of Rev. Edgar J. Helms, a Methodist minister and an early social innovator. Helm’s philosophy was simple; collected used household goods and clothing in wealthier areas of the city, then hire and train the underserved to mend and repair the used goods. The goods were then resold or were given to the people who repaired them. The system worked, and the Goodwill philosophy of “a hand up, not a hand out,” was born (“Our History,”…