Week 11 (26/11/2013)

Assalamualaikum,

For this week, we don’t have lecturer and tutorial class. However, Miss Ummi wants us to make a forum at GOALS. We have to discuss how a corporate culture can assist in executing strategies in an organization. If you are one of the top managers, what kind of values that you would like to inculcate in your organization?

Corporate culture is the behaviour of humans who are part of an organization. Culture includes the organization values, visions, norms, working language, systems, symbols, beliefs and habits. How a corporate culture can assist in executing strategies in an organization which is a corporate culture can affects the way people and groups interact with each other, with clients, and with stakeholders. A great culture can make an average strategy successful, but a poor culture can make even a great strategy fail.

           Then, if I one of the top managers, the values that I would like to apply in my organization is Islamic values. It is because; ISLAM is the way of life, which is Islam provides a framework that shapes the moral and ethical behaviour based on Al-Quran and Sunnah. Besides that, as we know, the Muslim is about one quarter of the total world population and represent a majority in more than 50 countries. From that, corporate image very much depend on culture values. If employees are practicing Islamic values within the organization, it will affect the overall performance of the organization. Moreover, the world is now being watched a people of Islam. We need to show that value by Islam is the way of life.