Analysis Of My Internship Experience: Laredo Webb County Treasurers

My internship experience has been based on approximately more than 60 hours for the past two weeks at the Laredo Webb County Treasurers. The Treasurer’s office is in charge of paying approximately 1500 Webb county employees, retirement plans, federal withholding, check deductions, payments to vendors among other functions. The office has been runned for Mrs. Delia Perales for four reelection-terms. Mrs. Perales has been able to establish the roles and function of each worker. Therefore, she has been able to create coordination among the employees. However, her exercise of power may in many ways make the employees to feel stressed and unconformable since she wants every employee to be working at every time. Since the very first week, I was advised

The organizational power is the one that is managed by a single leader or person. This is a very important aspect on the Webb County Treasurer’s Office. Mrs. Perales’s term is ending in December 2018 and Mr. Raul Reyes is expected to enter as the Chief Treasurer. However, Mrs. Perales asked Mr. Reyes to enter to the office for him to start gaining experience. The organization now has two leaders to follow orders. The problem with this is that the two leaders are from different generations Mrs. Perales administer the office under a very structured, rigid and traditional aspect, where the employees are expected to work at every time. Under this form of management, we are not allowed to developing social relations. Therefore, the organizational culture and climate is affected. Schein (2004) argued, “Culture somehow implies that rituals, climate, values, and behaviors tie together into a coherent whole; this patterning or integration is the essence of what we mean by “culture”” (p. 307). The leader is in charge of creating an environment where the employees are allowed to integrate their morals, ideals and beliefs to enhance the organizational culture and eventually developing organizational climate. On the other hand, Mr. Reyes is a leader from a new generation. After having several conversation with him I have realized that he

Mr. Reyes is a leader that considers the values and personality of every employee. He develops conversations with every employee asked them about their life, issues and possible recommendations to improve the management and administration at the Webb County Treasures. More importantly, Mr. Reyes allows us to develop social relations to interact between each other and integrate our values and visions. Schein (2004) argued, “If, on the other hand, the founder’s beliefs and values do not lead to success, the group will fail and disappear or will seek other leadership until someone is found whose beliefs and values will lead to success” (p. 307). The leadership of an organization is the core aspect for any function, development, relations and culture for an agency or corporation. The role of the leader is then to enforce the process of socialization, values, behaviors and cultural elements to enforce the stability and success of the organization. This two different forms of organizational power has allowed me observe the importance of the role of every leader in an organization and how its management can eventually lead to the failure or success in the organizational