Verizon Wireless Case Study 2
Teresa Allen
Western International University
Organization Theory & Behavior
MGT-240-3826
Beth Groh
January 16, 2018 Aspects of Verizon Wireless
In the Verizon organization attitudes and behavior is what governs professional quality in servicing customers. The goals and visions are set in place to assure that behavior does not obstruct organization wellness and to keep everything into a perspective. In case study 1 we acknowledged the goals, vision, and mission of this organization and now it’s time to look at some aspects of the employees and how work satisfaction, emotions and benefits play roles in the organization. For one Verizon is a large telecommunication organization and provide a variety of
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According to a community report by a customer “most agents have terrible attitudes with customers and gets rude when questioned. Judge & Robbins (2017) suggest early research on attitudes assumed attitudes were related to behavior therefore, attitudes people hold will determine what they do, Such as the attitudes of Verizon wireless agents who display poor attitudes communicating with customers. Such attitudes can also be associated with job satisfaction and inappropriate attitudes towards managers. When speaking about attitudes, they usually mean employee satisfaction (Judge & Robbins 2017) referring to a positive feeling about a job resulting from an evaluation of its characteristics. Moreover, an employee with high job satisfaction holds positive feelings about the work. In addition, this is not the case at some of the Verizon working environments according to workers and team members. In 2016 Verizon workers went on strike seeking improvement in benefits, better working conditions and to slow its out scouring jobs (DiCicco, J. 2016) while Verizon regular employees were on strike, the organization hired some replacement …show more content…
Fitting in Verizon wireless visions and goals these are setbacks are going to exist especially with diversity and different cultural backgrounds and different in ideas and opinions. Verizon is going against itself with the scandals and negative reports by ex-employees and replacement workers. Leave it to them they’re running a clean and upstanding organization. This type of attention can lead to dissatisfaction in work accountability and create negative moods and emotions from management and employees.
Conclusion
Verizon Communications has well defined values and goals in the presence of the traditional mission and vision statements. In accordance with case analysis mission and vision statements is in order to provide clear understanding of why the business is in the today’s industry and what it is recommended to become to foster long term growth. Verizon mission statement speaks of promoting employee communication and matching incentives that will recognize organization dedication and time. This is good, but recent and prior reports focuses on those Verizon employs and how they are valued as
Of course, this also means the expense for the company has also grown, but at least if they are hiring and producing more good the net income is still on the raise. Verizon spend 13.4 billion dollars on what they call “free cash flow”. Back in 2011 they built a 135,000 square foot laboratory with 300 engineers to come up with innovated products. One of the biggest things that Verizon has done to help cellular customers out, is in 2003 they took a leadership role in promoting Local Number Portability – a new process that allowed wireless customers to keep their phone number when changing carriers. Imagine how hard it would be to switch carries without that feature
Publix Supermarkets, Inc. has been constantly recognized on various (The Best of) lists, winning numerous awards not only for employee satisfaction but customer satisfaction as well. Their endurance is built on creating and maintaining an efficient workforce, which gives it the competitive edge needed in the current economy. Their mission statement is, “Where shopping and working are a pleasure”. This report will detail the company’s history, financials, SWOT analysis, internal/external environments, and a breakdown of their human resource policies. As you will read in this report, Publix understands the correlation between an engaged and satisfied workforce and the positive effects it has on their customer satisfaction.
Verizon is a major telecommunication provider in the United States. The company is the market leader, with $110 billion revenue and $2.4 billion in profit (MSN Moneycentral, 2012). Verizon has steady revenue streams that are largely based on a subscription model. It has several business segments, including wireless (63.3% of revenues) and wireline (36.7%) (2011 Verizon Annual Report). Most of this report will therefore focus on the wireless business, not only because this is the largest business that the company operates but because it is a rapidly growing and evolving business as well, a function of the rapid pace of smartphone adoption in America.
As the telecommunications industry in the United States consolidated and regional ‘Baby Bells’ began to amalgamate, Bell Atlantic, GTE, and Vodafone AirTouch merged in 2000 to form the nation’s largest wireless company, Verizon Wireless (Verizon, 2013). After establishing its headquarters in Basking Ridge, New Jersey, Verizon Wireless launched its foundational strategy of differentiating itself from the competition by building and maintaining a superior network and delivering an exceptional customer experience through its products and services (Strigl & Swiatek, 2011). As a result, Verizon established itself as the recognized industry leader in wireless and has maintained its network advantage by being the first wireless company in the United
Organizations that are serious about making improvements are going to have to deal with the issue of job satisfaction. Job satisfaction can be best described as the positive feeling that an individual has about their job resulting from an evaluation of the job’s characteristics (Robbins & Judge, 2009, p.31). It would seem natural to think that job satisfaction would have a positive correlation with successful organizations. What impact does job satisfaction have on an organization? Research will show that there are not only internal effects from performance related issues, but also external effects that impact customer satisfaction.
Verizon and sprint are both on different path with Verizon firmly establishing itself as the king of the air waves and sprint on the verge of financial chaos. Their relationship with their employee come with a surprise as Verizon posted one of the largest strike in in this decade when 40,000 employee walk off their job and started a very controversial strike which has been waited in by many on the cause and outcome. To say the least this, show there are issues to be dealt with it employee relationship. Investor can will also see this as a sign that there is a possibility for customer service issues to arise. Verizon is very capable of shouldering a very huge financial load but the recent event of the strike could cause many potential future
Verizon continues to impress the nation with its impressive 4G LTE network and the efficient coverage it provides across the US. The industry as a whole is under market saturation and with many individuals carrying a smartphone competitors must find other ways to expand. This may be a problem for Verizon because with excellent service comes a price. Many competitors are using this as advantage to gain new competitors.
I began my career with Verizon Wireless just under five years ago, with an attitude similar to that which most of my current employees have: I was starting a new ‘job’ that paid well until I figured out what I wanted to do. My background was in education, but I wanted to continue learning and trying other things before settling into teaching, and I could not be happier with the way things have turned out. I very quickly realized that Verizon would be more than a ‘job’. It is a company I am proud to say has shaped my career.
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