1. What Are The Values Of Your Work In Which You Work?

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When analyzing the job in which you work in, there are many aspects that can be looked at. What are the values of a company? What are the standards an office places for each employee? What are the rules and regulations of the office? How is the company structured? How is information collected and used within a company? These are some of the many questions that can be asked to analyze the workplace. The company I work for is a medical device distributor within the field of ophthalmology. Our company builds, sells, and manages equipment used in laser eye surgery, corrective vision, etc. It is one of the largest companies throughout the world competing with just a few other companies that are also found worldwide. The ultimate goal of the company is success. “The success of an innovation can be cap-tured at three levels: external, enterprise and personal. In particular, external recognition shows how well a company is regarded as being innovative by its customers and competitors, and whether an innovation has paid off financially. More generally, success rein-forces the enterprise’s values, behaviors and processes, which in turn drive many subsequent actions and decisions: who will be rewarded, which people will be hired and which projects will get the green light” (Rao and Weintraub, 2013, pg 29). When I look at the office I work in, there are many aspects that contribute to the overall success of the company. For one, the values in which my company holds for itself are incredibly important. The company I work for distributes medical equipment to hospitals and clinics throughout the world. In order to run smoothly and efficiently, work-place values must be created and met by every employee so that the company not only does well, but also creates a positive name for itself. Some of the values that my company has acquired are being kind and fair to all employees – giving them each an equal opportunity, delivering quality service and materials, being reliable, positive, and honest, working together, respecting one another, and creating a safe and comfortable environment for the employees to work in. “Values don't sprout in the CEO's office or the HR department; they don't bloom on organizational trellises--the armature of boundaries and lines where the company ends and the world begins. They grow out of core professional skills, communities of practice. If this is where we live, this is where we will find our values. They grow where all the ladders start: in the work, not the organization chart” (Stewart, 1996, pg. 145). In all, the values that represent my company have been created by everyone and continue to develop as the company grows. They are there to help society, others and, the company be the best it possibly could be. When I analyze my company and how they treat my fellow employees, I can be nothing but satisfied. Each day every one of us comes in with a positive attitude, ready to take on the day’s work. Rather than dreading coming into work, we each genuinely enjoy working where we do because of the way we are treated and the environment that has been created for us. Our company not only pays its’ employees well, but it creates incentives for each employee as well. On top of each employee’s paycheck, each person is able to receive a bonus on top of his or her base pay. By putting in more work, our company rewards each person with generous bonuses. As well as bonuses, if the customer service reps, for example, reach a certain requirement by the end of the month, his or her names are placed in a bowl and three are pulled to win $100 cash! It is incentives like this that keep the moral and momentum of the company going strong. Another example occurs when a system is down and the employees have to work twice as hard that day to process and collect orders, the managers put in the request to add a small bonus to each person’s check. They