Mission and Values ~ Part 1

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This is the first chapter in 'Winning', written by Jack & Suzy Welch. When we're talking about mission and vision of any organization, it is then a big picture. It encompasses the direction, movement and the united action to be taken by the people from within into reaching the desired destination.
Starting of, I would like to micro the issues into a much smaller perspectives among the employees...Job Description.

Surprisingly, there are still companies, small and big, delivering successful people and millionaires around and yet there is no proper job description, standard operating procedures and the necessity system requirements to move the company proper. And yet the speak of organizational cultures, only to end up as a speech connotations, required to be practiced by the managers but not the people who coined up the values.

Within the micro perspectives, Job description is the mission and vision required of individual to perform according to the needs and requirements of the department. Collectively, all these will joined up together, synergistically to form the organizations movement heading towards the overall company's mission and vision. If the job description is not look at it seriously, then the company should just forget about mission and vision and just go ahead with what they are doing best at ! Synergy simply implies 1+1= whole.

I believe that if any company were to succeed, then each and every individual employees within the company should be on the path to succeed. Following the concept of synergy, then the sum is always greater than the individual. Making profit critical, however it is not then a measure of success.

Job Description is only important at the point where an individual sign up the employment contract or when the company is about to engage legal proceedings. In between, it is meaningless. Is there a company that really make full use of the job description? Ask any employees to list down at least 10 of their job description. The answer is that not many is bale to do that accurately. Job description should be the guidelines (the guiding light) of every performing employees. It should be the scripture of any individual that wants to work in any organization, knowing them by hard and understanding what is required of them to deliver.
This then, opens the pathway to Key Performance Indicator and it would then be part and parcel of any work performance in any organization there is.

Then the very basic of mission and vision can only be defined further. More on Part 2...