4.13. Hiring practices from an entrepreneurial point
of view
Key managers declared that their hiring practices meet the
standards, since meeting recruitment requirements is part of the core business
model; key managers select with scrutiny every prospective employee's
application. As an explanation to this concluding statement, key managers
assume that the type of recruitment of staff members contribute to the
entrepreneurial activity of the organisation, since employees will be rewarded
accordingly to their efforts placed for the progress of the venture and the
allocated tasks.
4.14. Critique of the organisational culture
From an immediate point of view, the type of organisational
does not reflect the cross-cultural type. As the cultural structure of the
organisation consists of South African employees only, it was observed that the
company's workforce does not comprise foreigners. After observing the profile
of the company's head office, it was identified that out of eleven employees
working in the head office, eight of them were white employees. When it comes
to an observation from a gender basis, it was surveyed that five employees out
of eleven were male, which can be illustrated as 45 percent of the labour
workforce in the head office. But after collection of data related to the call
center effective, the survey reflected that twenty out of 35 employees were
female as 57 percent of the workforce constituting the call centre. This can
therefore make one conclude that the overall company's performance is manily
composed female employees.
Besides the fact that the organisation does not possess a
cross-cultural workforce, in addition it was also noticed that key managers
reinforce ethical values such as honesty, and integrity event to the detriment
of the company's growth. After interviewing Guy Meikle, who is a company's
associate and is in charge of search and placement stated that «there are
times when the competition get dirty» and where in order to access to
contracts, companies' managers have to go through bribes and corruption, and
corroborated that other organisations go through processes of CV's selection
meeting unethical requirements.
Therefore it can be concluded that the high importance given
to the implementation of ethical values in the core business model, contributes
to the improvement of an entrepreneurial scheme within the organisation as it
provides guidelines as to which the business practices are socially and morally
acceptable and which are not. In cases where there are no laid down rules as
to the right and wrong ways of doing business, Ethics fill in the gap and
give the much needed direction.
It is through awareness of ethics that an ethical type of
entrepreneurship will desist from engaging in business practices that lead to
loss of human life and human rights compromise the environment or bring about
gain at the unfair expense of other businesses, employees, consumers, etc. A
sound business ethic will benefit the organisation as it strives to direct the
business in an open and honest manner; to their customers about the
product/service that is offered.
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