AQA BUSS 4 - Corporate Culture Discussion

thanks for the tips!



Enron's a good example of a weak/toxic culture as is barclays/other banks

What culture did steve jobs bring to apple?

I know it was secretcy but was it role culture, task culture?

and what was his leadership style?

Thank You that deffonately helped :-)

Could you upload the model ansears you were looking at please?

Ahh, could Enron be an example of a strong culture though, because I thought Enron had a strong culture because it was like so tough and aggressive that it lead to employees to fake the financial statements, because there culture was that strong and aggressive they felt threatened if they didnt? so the strong and toxic culture lead to their failure, whereas most strong cultures are good? ahhhhh

presumably he bought what Stephen McGuire calls an Entrepreneurial Culture, whereby employees are encouraged to look for new ways of bringing revenue to the company + being innovative.

I'm not sure of his leadership style, i watched a video about it a while back and he said they had meetings often, so maybe a democratic culture but i suggest looking on tutor2u to be sure



and yeah I will later tonight/ tomorrow if that's okay

Is 15-21 lines of writing enough for a "Chunky paragraph"

strong cultures will generally lead to success, and weak ones lead to failure.
strong is exactly how you defined it before, employee commitment, team work, everyone has the same values etc. they dont mean strong in the sense of being aggressive/powerful, they mean strong in the sense of everyone working together for the benefit of all the stakeholders, not just themselves.
enron would be weak as there were clear sub-cultures in the firm, everyone wasnt working towards the same goals they were just doing things for their own benefit

I hope that makes things clearer!

are these model answers from students that actually sat the exam last year, that ur teachers decided to get the scripts back?

Oh! yeah that does make sense!! thank you haha, otherwise i would have been writing enron had a strong culture in my exam and got 0 haha !



and yeah theyre from last june, but obviously they're for takeover and mergers, but i asked to have them because i get confused with structure and how to get good analysis and evaluation, so i find them quite useful

haha its fine!! just think of strong cultures as those who have had positive media coverage, and the opposite for weak.

have you got any for section b as well?

Just to add in with this whole structure thing, my teacher gave me some model answers from last years papers,

one that wrote three points that were all really specific with like numerical data etc got 38/40,
and one that wrote Four points with less specific numerical data scored 37/40,

so I'd aim for four points, but ensure that all your paragraphs are specific as possible, in case you only have enough time to write three points, because it's clear that you can still access a top grade by doing this.

In my mock, I wrote six points/companies and consequently lacked specific details and only got a B so don't do that haha!

As in 2 points for and 2 against (4 points)?

yeah i have two for section b one got 38/40 one got 31/40 but i haven't properly looked at them yet, cos i only got them yesterday

Is 15-21 lines of writing enough for a "Chunky paragraph"

Ahh, could Enron be an example of a strong culture though, because I thought Enron had a strong culture because it was like so tough and aggressive that it lead to employees to fake the financial statements, because there culture was that strong and aggressive they felt threatened if they didnt? so the strong and toxic culture lead to their failure, whereas most strong cultures are good? ahhhhh

Guys, to get good application, could you compare and contrast 2 different companies in the same point. For example,
Googles innovative culture lead to them being successful and Kodak's lack of innovation lead to thier downfall.

I need an example of a company with a weak culture. Can anyone help me out?