AQA BUSS 4 - Corporate Culture Discussion

What would you say tesco's culture is?

Lol i'm actually not sure... that was a stupid suggestion :/ sorry

Retrenchement by getting rid of Symbian.
Focused product development and new Nokia Lumia allowed Nokia to gain profits for the forst time in years (q4 2012)

so worried about this exam!!! i spent so much time revising for maths and psychology that i've hardly done any business revision!

can anyone think of a business which has changed its culture but not had a new leader?

How is everyone going to spend the day before the exam revising? My plan is to really nail and remember my research and i hope to do around 2 hours of pure exam practice. Maybe go over CSR, Culture and leadership one more time aswell.

That sounds like a good plan. I'll probably do the same. Memorise my factfiles. Find extra examples on the PEST section B stuff. Etc

How is everyone going to spend the day before the exam revising? My plan is to really nail and remember my research and i hope to do around 2 hours of pure exam practice. Maybe go over CSR, Culture and leadership one more time aswell.

Same here memorise research / more research for section b / exam practice then no more Buss4..........Hopefully

By cultural differences do you mean subcultures or a unique culture?

Yeah!

E.g of threat = Barings and Nick Leeson

Im so confused which are you saying yeah to?

sorry completely misread your question. I believe it means subcultures!

Well in that case, I'd have a lot more to say about it being a threat than an opportunity.
Barclays would be a perfect example of this.
My main point about why it would be a threat would probably be the fact that the culture of an organisation will lack alignment if subcultures exist. i would then analyse this
you could say though that allowing subculture to form and develop would highlight a problem to the leaders of a business regarding how the business is run. This may encourage a company to make reforms that result in long-term benefits like Jenkins' Project Transform. this creates a long term benefit
not really sure what else

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could you think of anything of how it is an opportunity? other than the company transforming?

I really don't know whether this is right, but you could say that although subcultures create inequality in the workplace and prevent the alignment of culture, there may be a positive motivational impact. (this may seem stupid, but bear with me lol). If you take Barclays as an example, where the people at the top are getting paid bonuses worth millions, whilst the people at the bottom of the hierarchy are on minimum wage, there may be an incentive for these people at the bottom to work harder in order to work their way up. This should increase the productivity of workers, etc...
Maybe?