Cross Cultural Competence by Simon L. Dolan

Author:Simon L. Dolan
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781784418885
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Published: 2015-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

The Value of Alignment

In Managing by Values, Dolan and his colleagues describe a management system of the same name that aims to achieve high performance in day-to-day work by making it more meaningful. For this to happen, they say, organizations need to create alignment between the values of owners, managers, and members of the firm as well as between those of the individual and the organization.

So what is alignment? How do you know it when you have it? Think first of a body where the right hand wants to go right and the left hand wants to go left, or the right leg wants to move forward and the left leg wants to stand still — it will look a little like the scarecrow flapping in the wind in The Wizard of Oz. It certainly cannot easily move forward! Conversely, notice the easy alignment formed when birds fly south in the winter: see the natural “V” structure, feel the coherence, even while the birds exchange the roles of leader and follower. It’s easy to see which relationship is more powerful, more able to handle change, more able to “perform.”

Let’s explore the ways in which the use of the Management by Values (MBV) system helps create alignment between people and their organizational roles to maximize human and organizational performance.

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