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• Why do organizations have espoused values?

In order to understand why organizations, have espoused values, one has to understand espoused values. Espoused values: The articulated, publicly announced principles and values that the group claims to be trying to achieve, such as product quality, Price leadership, or safety (Schein, pg.3). Organizations have espoused values in order to have a focus in the industry. As explained by Schein, it could be like price leadership, which is guaranteeing consumers the lowest or best bang for the buck price. There are many different mantras per company.

• How do organizations establish or set values in the minds of their employees?

Organizations establish or set values in the mind of their employees by following how to define culture in general. This would involve; Observing behavioral regularities when people interact, Climate, Formal rituals and celebrations, Espoused values, Formal philosophy, Group norms, Rules of the game, Identity and image of self, embedded skills, habits of thinking, mental models, shared meanings and integrating symbols. Observing behavioral regularities would be simple things such as seeing how people respond to simple tasks such as acknowledging employees or colleagues and positively greeting them. Our espoused values being those we are known for as an organization. Our formal philosophy stems from an ideology of principle in which a group acts on behalf. Group norms establish the guides in working collaboratively. Rules for the game are the unwritten mutual understandings one comes with one another.

• How do organizations change when the senior leadership is unwilling or unable to change the values of the organization?

Organizations can change without senior leadership involvement by encouraging other leaders in the organization to assist with implementing the changes a collective approach to show why changes in the values are needed and encourage buy-in from all within the organization. This is then presented to senior leadership. Upon presentation, identification of the reasons why should be expected but also the results due to the why. If a test market could be placed to display preliminary results, that would be a great start.