Question

CEO's Statement

Sealed Air's success in the marketplace is a direct result of the efforts of more than 17,000 dedicated individuals worldwide, combined with the unique culture found inside our company.

Talented individuals come together at Sealed Air to create an innovative, collaborative, customer-focused workplace. Our pride in the accomplishments of today generates the creativity and effort which will lead to the successes of tomorrow.

Sealed Air places high value on each of our employees and the contributions they make every day. We seek to develop and use to the fullest their capabilities, creativity and energy by creating a work environment that enables every employee to contribute according to his or her potential.

We are open to new ideas, and we operate with a bias toward action.

Our culture includes an expectation of success, as we add value to our customers through people committed to doing their jobs a little better every day.

1. Why is the culture at Sealed Air so important?

2. Does this culture impact the company’s performance?

3. What are the pros and cons of this culture to the company’s stakeholders (such as customers and employees)?

4. What would you do when the employee's cultural values clash with the company's corporate values?

5. Should Dunphy and Hickey continue to reconsider their seamless global culture? What should they do next?

Answer 1

1.

Sealed Air's culture is of prime importance because it is the ethos of the business that drives it and its workers in a concrete and systematic way towards its goals. Sealed Air has been able to draw up its business and trade performance on the basis of its history. The culture of the company is unique based on creativity and the operations of the company prosper.

2.

Yes, this culture has a significant positive impact on the performance of the company. Culture permits innovative, collaborative and client-centered activities. The culture concentrates on creativity, enabling every employee in the organization to work and take action as best they can. The culture at Sealed Air maintains an efficient, versatile and goal-oriented efficiency.

3.

The implications of this ethos to the stakeholders of the business are that all stakeholders ' interest is in accordance with the company's interest. In other terms, the owners and the business itself have a symbiotic relationship. This allows stakeholders to make a significant contribution to the company's growth. Too much emphasis on innovation in turn will drive stakeholders to unwarranted risks in certain situations, which can have a negative impact on the company.

4.

I shall seek to reconcile them when there is a conflict between the cultural values of workers and the business principles. It is critical that the cultural values of workers and the corporate values of the organization are matched in a common way. To do this, I'll create a better and more meaningful value statement that sees and attempts to remove the illogical side.

5.

No, we should not reconsider the seamless global culture in the future. Rather the market developments that affect their business and industries in the future and how the organization will adapt to address such threats should be decided next. In the future the company will be able to rely on shared convictions and values via a seamless global culture, and the management should explore ways to strengthen its core values and beliefs so that the firm and its stakeholders can act properly when changed in the industry.