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1. Leadership Team: plans, sets goals, provides guidance to, manages organization. 2. Motivation or Employee Morale Team: plans and carries out events and activities that build a positive spirit among employees. May plan employee lunches, company picnics, fund raising for ill employees. (Fun team) 3. Safety and Enviornmental Team: ensures the safety of employees in the work place.Recyclying and enviornmental policy reccommendations. Safety training, work place organization. 4. Employee Wellness Team: focuses on health and wellness of the employees. Create different fitness clubs such as running and walking on lunch breaks. Periodic testing of health issues such as high blood pressure. 5. Culture and Communication Team: works to define and create the defined company culture necessary for the success of your organization. Fosters two-way communication in your organization to ensure employee input up the chain of command. May sponser things like monthly newsletters and employee satisfaction surveys. When employees see successful teams, more employees become interested in serving on the teams. The teams make the company a better place to work and provide the opportunity for real employee involvement and commitment.

What are employers looking for in an employee? 1. Understand what the employer is looking for before an interview 2. Basic job qualifications 3. Multitasking (work on more than one project) 4. Initiative (enthusiasm) 5. Creative thinking 6. Long term potential (future in company) 7. Ability to work well with others 8. Ability to make money (help organization) 9. Impressive resume (good impression) 10. Relevent work experience (no hand-holding) 11. Problem solving skills (able to adjust) 12. Online presence (communication--social networking)

This article is relevant becuase it investigates the role of culture as it relates to quality management practices. It also takes a look at the different aspects of quality management, infrastructure and core practices. Looking at these practices can enhance our understanding of the effect of quality management on organizational culture. The results concluded that Infrastructure quality practices serve to mediate a direct relationship between culture and performance The mediation model analyses indicated a significant relationship between culture and infrastructure quality practices, but a nonsignificant relationship with core practices The relationship study between culture, quality, and performance showed showing that infrastructure quality management practices have a direct positive impact on performance. culture has a significant relationship with infrastructure quality practices because they involve more of the social and behavioral aspects of quality management, whereas the core practices have a more technical orientation. Core practices rely more heavily on mathematical skills (i.e., statistical process control) and automated systems, whereas infrastructure quality practices rely more heavily on human behavior attributes and communication skills.

This article is from Microsoft on four main ways that you can continue or start to motivate your employees, and how to do it fairly. These include establishing an action plan, being creative when you determine your reward system, give your personal touch to employee rewards, make sure to pay attention to individual initiative along with group initiative.

This article points the reasons why a company might consider a cultural change, the negatives and the positives. 1. There are three major steps involved in changing an organization's culture. 2. How to Understand Your Current Culture 3.Plan the Desired Organizational Culture (Build a Strategic Framework: Mission Statement, Vision, Values ...) 4.What needs to happen to create the culture desired by the organization?