BUS603: Managing People

The company is in the process of the organizational culture change focusing on teamwork: the number of employees fully agreeing with this statement in 2008 increased almost 3 times; the average assessment of the statement increased from 3.3 to 3.6 points in the 5 point scale, so it can be concluded that teamwork for the part of employees is a normal daily activity. In-depth interviews revealed that due to the different nature of work in some departments teamwork is more usual than in others: employees from sales and production departments often work in teams and employees from personnel and technology departments mostly do not do teamwork.

However, the results of the research show that there is lack of coordination between the departments: the assessment of coordination is low scoring, in addition, average assessment in points decreased from 2.8 points in 2006 to 2.6 points in 2008. The conclusion that while changes take place in the organization the employees lack coordination can be made. This conclusion is supported by in-depth interviews with the respondents who said that there was often a dominating sense in the company that can be described by the metaphor "the left hand does not know what the right hand is doing": different departments pursue separate goals or employees from different departments are not after one common goal.