Summary of my organization:

By Rainbow
Company history:

Background of this trading company

The company is a big company which exports clothes and it has its subsidiaries as well as its own clothes factories. The company is very young which has established only for eight years. As it is a joint venture, it has staff from different cultures. It is a company which exalts teamwork and happiness.

Culture:

Although our company is very young, there is no lack of company culture. On the company website, there is forum for communication, courseware for analysis, successful cases for studying. Moreover, there are many real stories about the company shared on the forum for enjoying.

Staff:

The staff of this company comprises Chinese people and Indian people. There are totally 300 staff. The whole company can be divided into 9 departments such as such as human resources department, merchandize department, shipping department, QC department,etc.

Learning environment and training:

As our company is very practical and it is associated with trade, so it lacks in Experimentation. However, on the whole, there is still much to be improved in that the turnover rate is so high. I am not so sure about the information collection since I only worked for six months. Actually the communication between the headquarter and subsidiaries and factories. Next is the analysis. There is adequate time for the staff to reflect and self-analysis at least in my department. But the degree varies in other departments. Our company pays great attention to education and training. Every new staff will receive training regularly and people who move to new positions will receive corresponding training, but I think the effectiveness of the training can be further improved. As for information transfer, I think there is formal and casual communication between the team managers and the team members. If there is branch point, we can solve it by discussing. However, most of the time the managers are the decisions makers, so I think it would be better if there is some communication channels such as the forum.

Our company values reflection and staff will be evaluated with respect to their work performance and social activities. As I feel there is relatively strong sense of hierarchy in our company, so there is less spark for new ideas. This may be a weak point to be improved. In conclusion, a company should be well-organized, so that every member in this company will feel satisfied and rewarded.

Innovation:

According to the situation in our company and the diffusion of innovations model, we persuade the subsidiary company and customer to employ new equipment and new product. The subsidiary company need to pass some official audit and the audit requires new equipment. This is a process of diffusion of innovation. It is interesting that some companies are willing to adopt the new equipment and some are not. They can be regarded as the early adopters and the other companies who do not adopt can be regarded as the late majority or laggards. The reason why they do not adopt is it costs money and the effect does not show so soon. Once the advantage of the new equipment is discovered, they will be adopted by the late majority. There are always innovators who advocate new things and products and late adopters who are reluctant to change. Oftentimes, new things always have their vitality because there are new functions and reinventions added into the old things. They can be accepted by people according to the change diffusion.

What can be improved?

On the whole, our company has good management and it operates well. The staffs are friendly to each other. Maybe we can consider about how to make full use of the forum for communicating work experience which can helps improves work effectiveness and efficiency. As for other aspects that are to be improved are analyzed in the learning organization survey.