By: Jéssica Mendoza
We often hear that organizational culture generates competitive advantages. In effect, organizational culture can give an organization advantages over its competitors, which may translate into returns and strong performance for the company.
By: Kristina Poto?nik
Business School
University of Edinburgh, UK
In competitive markets and especially within current global recession in which businesses are striving for survival, the organizations need to continuously innovate in order to gain competitive advantage (Poto?nik & Anderson, 2012). However, any organization, either profit or non-profit, needs innovative talent to be able to produce organizational innovations. Companies are hence experiencing the challenge of how to select those individuals who will show innovative performance in their workplaces.
In search of the magical link between continuous improvement practices and initiatives, and employee commitment.
A great number of companies have invested many resources toward establishing a culture of continuous improvement to reduce costs, improve the quality of their products or services and at the same time bring about increased employee commitment. Unfortunately, many of these efforts have failed…
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