Week 4: Organizational Culture

This past week has been interesting for one main reason. The first is that nearly all of the management level employees working from home/traveling to a major conference. In terms of leadership I think this it’s very interesting to see how people act when their leader(s), in this case bosses, are not around. The week in general went very similarly to any other I’ve experienced, in fact people may have worked even harder in order to make up for the absence of management. A significant reason for this is that the company is essentially a startup. The employees who have been there for over a year were given shares, increasing there stake in everything thats going on with the company. Also there isn’t bureaucratic redundancy or time wasting meetings/ assignments that can just be ignored. The work that is being done leads to tangible results. At one point when I was doing a fairly boring task that may have seemed meaningless at the time, and I made some comment about it to one of my coworkers, and he described the work that me and the other interns are doing as bricks going into a building. Thats not very original, but it felt genuine and its a good way of looking at some of the assignments I’m given.