Professional Documents
Culture Documents
of Sight
PRES ENTED BY - GR OU P 1
Ankur Sharma
Anish Gupta
Prakhar Nagori
Pratyush Lahiri Choudhary
Raghav Bhatnagar
Vinay Jain
Ya s h v a r d h a n K a b r a
Overview
Aligning Employees to Firm
Objectives
Role of LOS
Enhancing the employee LOS
Boswell, W. R. & Boudreau, J. W. (2001). Employee line of sight to the organizations strategic objectives what
it is, how it can be enhanced, and what it makes happen (CAHRS Working Paper #01-06)
Results
LOS-Actions
Higher with employee involvement in
decisions, increased autonomy, and
participation in cross training; more likely
among more tenured/higher level
employees and who had held fewer
positions
Departmental meetings and providing
information directly to employees about the
organizations strategy, values, and goals
enhanced LOS-Actions
LOS-Actions was the stronger and most
consistent predictor
LOS-Objectives
LOS-Objectives was more likely among
more tenured and higher level employees
as well as those who had held fewer
positions
Company-wide meetings enhanced LOSObjectives
Both LOS elements associated with
enhanced job satisfaction, organizational
commitment, loyalty, perceived pay plan
effectiveness, and lower anxiety and job
burnout; but LOS-Actions was the stronger
and most consistent predictor
Both associated with enhanced job satisfaction, organizational commitment, loyalty, perceived
pay plan effectiveness, and lower anxiety and job burnout
Managerial Implications
Understanding
Over Articulation
Communication,
Not The End
Higher Efforts
Moving
Downwards
Premise
Source Of
Competitive
Advantage
Caveat
Alignment, Not
Just Better
Employees
Objective
Alignment for
Strategic Success
Attainment
Acquisition of
Competitive
Advantage
In the absence of clear understanding of the goals the employees may align with objectives of
lower importance or even with those which are contrary to the firms strategy
First step towards communicating line of sight : Clear Vision of the top
management
Step further
One on one communication aimed at specifically linking employee roles and
behaviors to larger organisational goals is the key; one-on-one communication reveal
inconsistent perceptions or behaviors and allow for clarifications and reorientation
Managers would play a big role in making employees aligned with the vision
Hoarding information for having the sense of control leads to disconnect between
employee and organisation
Mid level managers plays a big role in implementing the strategic directives from top
Effective dissemination requires network like design (transfer through market or
product)
Network design for effective cascading of strategic objectives through he
organisational hierarchy and increases the likelihood of LOS among all employees
Today Vs.
Yesterday
Leading to
Increased
Significance of
LOS
Extrinsic
Factors
Encourage sharing of
information and foster
better decision making
Stewardship
Theory
As per Stewardship Theory, employees that behave as stewards view attaining organizational
goals aligned with their goals and thus derive satisfaction from achieving such goal
Thank
You!
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