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Management Theories & Practices: Wells Fargo And Company

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Management Theories & Practices
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MGT303
February 1, 2015
Patten University

Management Theories & Practices

When I went to work for Wells Fargo and Company nearly 16 years ago, I went based on the little I knew of the company at the time. My impression was that Wells Fargo and Company was exactly what I was seeking in a company. I felt they were a company I could build my career with. I saw Wells Fargo as an institution I could join for my personal and professional long-term growth. I knew the company as the image of the stagecoach and I saw what others see when they look at the company. The image of its stagecoach represented an aged and stable company with a strong reputation as a prosperous and growing yet conservative …show more content…

There are many different customized onboarding processes based on the job title the employee is going into. For example, when I began with the company nearly 16 years ago, the onboarding process was a lengthy 6 week process. It incorporated information from many aspects of the company. Onboarding began with understanding the history and organizational culture of Wells Fargo and moved into the needs and expectations of the career. It would have been very easy to experience information overload. Many new hires in the onboarding process, like me, did feel overloaded to some degree. The amount of information we were trying to capture with regard to procedural information, regulatory expectations, company policies, leaderships expectations, and organizational culture was a lot for a new employee. I found that even as eager as I may have been to learn, it was a lot to take in within the short …show more content…

They encourage decisions to be made at every level where possible instead of the need to seek approval for all decisions. By empowering the leaders within the company at all levels, all are able to feel the responsibility and opportunity for success of the company at their fingertips. By leaders at all levels within the company being given the reigns to lead and flexibility to make decisions based on their perception of the needs of their team, they are able to embody the vision and values of the company. Leaders are able to collectively learn by doing and collaborating with other leaders and team

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