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Discussing - An article included in a recent edition of HR Magazine, entitled "Ensuring Lasting Foundations" explores the impact influential leaders have on a company's culture.
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An article included in a recent edition of HR Magazine, entitled "Ensuring Lasting Foundations" explores the impact influential leaders have on a company's culture. In this article, Pamela Babcock outlines the various components necessary for human resource professionals to retain the corporate culture created by a company's founding leader(s). Babcock uses examples from Charles Schwab & Company, Ford Motor Company, Sargento, The Container Store and Adobe Systems Inc. to illustrate these components. Companies with a very recognizable public figure who models the organizations values can serve as ambassadors of the corporate culture. For example, Charles Schwab, inspired employees of Charles Schwab & Company to uphold the company's values or risk losing their job. Schwab felt so strongly about the importance of his company's value system that his own son was disciplined when his actions did not correlate to the company's values and culture. "The value was stronger than the nepotism,"...
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