Organizational Culture

Executive Summary

The trends that guide the development of the contemporary world determine changes, i.e. changing attitudes in companies, such as globalization of the economy, environmental awareness, accelerating privatization, strategic alliances, and technological advancement, make up an unavoidable set of conditions that affect organizations. The strategy that best interprets the responses to the demands of this complex and changing environment is summarized in competitiveness. The organizational culture is conceived as a factor that influences individual behaviour and collective concerns the values, norms and beliefs shared by individuals within an organization, creating the environment in which they perform their work. It affects everything that happens within a company, you can recognize from what they say, do and think people, it consolidates the transmission of knowledge, beliefs, learning and behaviour, demonstrating internal changes that tend to be stable over time. The employee of any organization agrees to provide to a particular job knowledge, skills, abilities, skills, and values ??and, in turn, wait, not only financial rewards, but also security, be treated as a human being, rewarding relationships with others and support your personal growth and development.

Organizational Culture

Introduction to the Organization

Barclay's bank is the bank situated in UK serving all around the world as a global bank. Barclays offers its customers an extensive variety of financial services in more than 56 countries. The bank also provides retail banking to its customers and business clients. The financial services include current accounts, savings accounts and general insurances to its customer base.

The communication designs of Barclays in UK are one of the best designs to cater customer services and customers. As the slogan says “Take One Small Step” to managing their money better every day. I have chosen this organization because it is one of the leading banks in UK, which has a learning organizational culture, and recently have implemented a new communication model within the organization.

Introduction to the Senior Management

The following management has been selected for the interview. The interview has been taken on phone. Their brief description is as follows

Mark Harding

He is the Group General Counsel, and joined Barclays as Group General Counsel in 2003. Included within his area of responsibility are legal and regulatory compliance issues throughout the bank.

Antony Jenkins

He is a Chief Executive, Retail and Business Banking, and joined the Barclays Executive Committee in November 2009.

Thomas L Kalaris

He is Chief Executive of Barclays Wealth, a leading global wealth manager. In November 2009, he became a member of the Barclays Group Executive Committee.

What are your mission, vision, and core values?

As a response to the question, the managers told that the vision of the organization Barclays is to” execution priorities are capital, returns, income growth and citizenship”. The strategy that is used to execute the plan and the vision is to build the integrated bank that will be diversified according to the products, geography, demographics and the depth of the businesses attached to it. Their mission is to offer the world's best solutions to their clients and customers ...