Bayada Home Health Organizational Culture Paper

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I am doing my paper on an article called Family giving Bayada Home Health to non-profit but staying at helm by Colleen Diskin and I am going to relate it to the topic of organizational culture. Organizational culture is the mutual knowledge of rules, norms and values of an organization which form the behaviors and attitudes of the company's employees. (p.510 Colquitt, LePine, & Wesson, 2017). Not only does organizational culture influence the company, but it also has a great impact on the employees of that company. Bayada Home Health Care is a non-profit organization that has been providing home health, adult nursing, assistive care, pediatrics, hospice and habilitation services to individuals since the company was founded in 1975 ("About BAYADA Home Health Care", n.d.). This article was about how Mark Baiada, the company founder, is …show more content…

The reason for him giving away his company is to ensure the company's long lasting survival and to continue expanding the company. The company's culture and philosophy are what is most important to Bayada. Mark Baiada describes the values of his company by calling them "The Bayada Way." Colleen Diskin fails to thoroughly explain what exactly "The Bayada Way" is, but through research on the company's website I found that "The Bayada Way" represents the values and beliefs that are the foundation of the company. These beliefs and guides are demonstrated by the current generation of Bayada home health care professionals and expect to be passed down to colleagues who work for the company in the future. In other words, "The Bayada Way" is the company's job culture. Their main value within their company has always been - and always will be - most important to them, it is their main focus. "The words of the Bayada Way come directly from our clients, their families and our employees." Throughout Mark Baiada's company, they believe that their employees are their most important benefit and their clients always come first. Professionals