Part One
The selected organization is Facebook, which is an online based organization that was established in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg and his four other colleagues, Dustin Moskovitz, Andrew McCollum, Eduardo Saverin, Chris Hughes. Even though it started as a mere school project, the company has grown significantly to be one of the most profitable corporations across the globe. In 2015, the enterprise recorded about $3.688 billion in profits. While several aspects have facilitated such success, the company’s culture has been a primary element in its success.
Facebook’s culture epitomizes a rocket engine that is often acknowledged for its high innovation. Over the years, NASA has been engaging in concerted efforts to improve the overall design of the rocket engine. The most recent initiations include the introduction of a clean energy blueprint. Facebook has followed a similar trend. Therefore, the company has been striving to maintain an innovative culture that ensures that it delivers optimized services for all users. The company made significant changes to the designs of its core products. For instance, less than two years ago, the company introduced new News Feeds, which separates streams of content into multiple categories and maximizes the user interface into a mobile-inspired design (Robertson, 2013). Ideally, the feed provides a personalized newspaper. The News Feed design does not only show updates from friends, but it also provides updates to the users derived from publications and other valid sources.
Facebook’s innovative culture usually has a great influence on the company’s decision-making process. Where there is an opportunity for innovation, all the stakeholders are widely consulted with the objective of achieving unique ideas on how to capitalize on it. Facebook stakeholders, especially the users, often use specialized jargons to communicate. For example, some individuals use the initials OMG, which shows amazement and awe (Robertson, 2013). As a result of a unitary culture, people from varied subcultures do not always have competing perspectives. Any individual can be accommodated into the culture that Facebook advocates. Therefore, even individuals that are not conversant with the culture that members cultivated gradually become acquainted through continued exposure.
Part 2
I do not believe that one’s social class determines their future. Ideally, class is a social construct; therefore, an individual can always go beyond the limitations imposed by the construct. Nevertheless, it requires an individual to harbor a class-defiant mindset. Notions of power usually contribute towards the idea of class and future. According to Stiglitz (2012), individuals that fall in the high-class category wield much power when compared to their counterparts from the lower classes. With a greater degree of power, it is believed that a person is better placed to take advantage of day-to-day life opportunities. Even though a person from the lower classes might depict a hunger for success, the lack of capacity, which often characterizes such people, can be a significant challenge. Where leaders in an organization harbor the statement, it follows that genuine participation in the decision-making process is reduced significantly (Stiglitz, 2012). Subsequently, even though the leaders might seek relevant input from the line employees, the decision system would be designed in a manner that promotes courses or activities that enrich the leaders while overlooking the organization’s vision. Besides, adopting such a perspective motivates the leaders to overlook the essence or value of employees as well as their contributions to the various activities that enable the organization to achieve its goals and objectives.
References
Robertson, A. (2013). Facebook redesigns News Feed with multiple feeds and 'mobile-inspired' interface. The Verge. Retrieved from www.theverge.com/2013/3/7/4075548/facebook-redesigns-news-feed-with-multiple-feeds
Stiglitz, J. E. (2012). The price of inequality: How today's divided society endangers our future. London, UK: WW Norton & Company.
