2. The Ohio National Life Insurance Company
was founded on September 9, 1909. The first
policy was written on October 10, 1910.
Ohio National provides services for:
Individual life insurance
Individual disability insurance
Individual annuities
Group annuities
3. The culture consist of a diversity of people.
There is more than 80% whites in the
corporation and 20% of other races. There is
about 75% of older people working in the
company and about 25% of young people. The
culture consists of older workers set in their
ways and just waiting on the day to retire. It is
a very difficult business to incorporate new
ideas and to change your culture.
4. I think change is good, but I also think the knowledge outweighs
change. Management is more concerned trying to fix some things
that are not broken and need people with specialization. I think
people can have a specialization in a certain area and may not be
helpful in another area. I will use myself as an example. I know
Whole and Term life very well and am very good in my job. I
struggle with Universal and Variable Life policies. I have enough
knowledge to explain these policies to agents and individual
policy owners, but I don’t like doing the processing work which is
very tedious and boring. I can’t see myself learning this side of
the business and being successful in my job. This is the reason
that I am taking Instructional Design which will help me change
careers and be successful in the next half of my life.
5. Team building is the key to success at this
organization.
6. Old ways New Ways
Two departments One department
Two visions One vision
Two goals One goal
Two ways of One way of preparing
preparing work work
Two teams One team
7. Karen: Why do you think our organization is
going through this reorganization?
Nancy: To be honest Karen, I don’t think it is
going to work and management is going
to lose a lot of seasonal employees.
8. Karen: I know that you are leaving in March
and you have to train others for your position,
what are you going to do to motivate them to
do a good job?
Nancy: Well, I am going to show them
everything I know and tell them to go along
with the changes even if they don’t like it.
9. Karen: What was the cause of all these changes
and the reorganization?
Nancy: What caused all of this, is that we have
one person knowing a certain job and if that
person is sick or absent no one knows how to
do their job. We have to be competitive with
other companies and everyone should be
knowledgeable in all areas.
10. Leadership is often confused with management
(Boleman & Deal, 2008). This is such a true
statement. Just because you are leader, doesn’t
make you a good manager. I always wondered
why management would have one person
knowing all the information and not training
others on this same information. A good leader
wants others to be great leaders and I don’t see
this in this Unit. A good leader motivates others
to lead and I don’t see this in this department.
Maybe a reorganization will allow upper
managers to see some quality leaders.
11. A good leader will have others following their
lead, visions and goals.
12. Beach, L.R. (2006). Leadership and the art of change:
A practical guide to organizational transformation.
Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publication.
Bolman, L.G. & Deal, T.E. (2008). Refraining
Organizations: Artistry, Choice, and Leadership (4th
ed.) Marblehead, MD: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
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