1 Observation Paper Observation Paper for Equity Management Taihessa Lee Organizational Leadership Professor Stephen D. Griffin June 30, 2013 The purpose of this paper is to describe the observable aspects of my current organization’s culture. I will address my perceptions using the following three viewpoints: vision, mission and core values. I am currently employed at Equity Management Corporation, which is a leading third party management company throughout the property management industry. It is a highly competitive organization that works on creating opportunity for their employees and managing with integrity. On the grounds that I work for Equity Management I know first-hand the extent they will go to meet their expectation out of every department and one thing they will always strive to be number one in the housing market. The greater part of these things are expressed inside Equity Management’s vision and mission statement. Their vision and mission are similar as it precisely what the company does and how it plans to develop. The Mission: Managing with integrity. The Vision: Creating opportunity. The Core Values: will focus on the heart of our company. There are many other parts of Equity. Leasing Agents are the face of Equity. Property Managers are the arms of Equity. Regional Directors represent the head of Equity. But it takes one fundamental body part to keep all this going- the heart. Ultimately, the heart has to beat to make the parts all function together. The heart is where love, care and concern reside evidenced by our commitment to the job, one another and the people we serve. As Equity pays attention to the condition of our personal and corporate heart they can experience a deeper commitment to our everyday activities. The owner’s vision is to improve the heart of Equity in a deeper way. The owner realizes that our hearts inspire us to be our best, and create loyalty in ourselves. Becoming #1 in the industry means being financially strong and growing. But being #1 is also found in a company filled with loyal employees with high integrity, stellar performance while showing you care. I have witnessed this in my current employment with Equity. Working at the corporate office was hard for me at times because of how clan culture the company is however it likewise has numerous motivating forces as well. I started my employment with Equity Management three years prior. This employment has been assisting me to develop passionately and also professionally. They are showing me to strive to be passionately and the best constantly. The major lesson I am learning while at Equity Management is their Core Values which is the heart of an employee to keep it functioning properly. A great deal can be learned about an organization by analyzing and exploring the various aspects of organizational observation. My observation of Equity’s leadership and organizational culture would be healthy organization culture. .

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Observation Paper
Observation Paper for Equity Management
Taihessa Lee
Organizational Leadership
Professor Stephen D. Griffin
June 30, 2013
The purpose of this paper is to describe the observable
aspects of my current organization’s culture. I will address my
perceptions using the following three viewpoints: vision,
mission and core values. I am currently employed at Equity
Management Corporation, which is a leading third party
management company throughout the property management
industry. It is a highly competitive organization that works on
creating opportunity for their employees and managing with
integrity. On the grounds that I work for Equity Management I
know first-hand the extent they will go to meet their expectation
out of every department and one thing they will always strive to
be number one in the housing market. The greater part of these
things are expressed inside Equity Management’s vision and
mission statement. Their vision and mission are similar as it
precisely what the company does and how it plans to develop.
The Mission: Managing with integrity. The Vision:
Creating opportunity. The Core Values: will focus on the heart
of our company. There are many other parts of Equity. Leasing
Agents are the face of Equity. Property Managers are the arms
of Equity. Regional Directors represent the head of Equity.

2. But it takes one fundamental body part to keep all this going-
the heart. Ultimately, the heart has to beat to make the parts all
function together. The heart is where love, care and concern
reside evidenced by our commitment to the job, one another and
the people we serve. As Equity pays attention to the condition
of our personal and corporate heart they can experience a deeper
commitment to our everyday activities. The owner’s vision is
to improve the heart of Equity in a deeper way. The owner
realizes that our hearts inspire us to be our best, and create
loyalty in ourselves. Becoming #1 in the industry means being
financially strong and growing. But being #1 is also found in a
company filled with loyal employees with high integrity, stellar
performance while showing you care. I have witnessed this in
my current employment with Equity.
Working at the corporate office was hard for me at times
because of how clan culture the company is however it likewise
has numerous motivating forces as well. I started my
employment with Equity Management three years prior. This
employment has been assisting me to develop passionately and
also professionally. They are showing me to strive to be
passionately and the best constantly. The major lesson I am
learning while at Equity Management is their Core Values
which is the heart of an employee to keep it functioning
properly.
A great deal can be learned about an organization by
analyzing and exploring the various aspects of organizational
observation. My observation of Equity’s leadership and
organizational culture would be healthy organization culture.
Our owner takes an active role within our organization’s
culture. I believe leaders have an enormous effect on the well-
being of an organizational culture. A leader directs the energy
of the culture whether positive or negative in organization
people tend to get what they give. A healthy organizational
culture is a must for success within the organization. It is the
quality of the employee’s workplace environment that must
impact on their level of motivation and subsequent performance.

3. Equity’s Motivational Strategies: Equity Management uses
short range and long term goals in its employee motivational
strategies. The company completely comprehends the
imperatives of determines their representatives have the
instruments information and are zealously will to perform their
employment. Equity fully understands by spending money up
front to create and maintain employee retention. It takes more
to prepare a new employee than it does to improve and hold a
present employee. Equity has different associate’s
compensation that upgrade employees such a paid days off,
bonuses, employee praise, and recognition done at the
company’s yearly meeting. Employees will buckle down in the
event they know there is something that will benefit them.
Equity’s Executive Team are genuinely interested in their
employees and find ways to bring out the best in them.
The four workplace environment factor that need to be
taken into consideration by any serious manager, supervisor or
leader in order to be successful and boost performance.
Objective setting: Involve the employees in setting considerable
objectives and performance measure their work. This can be
done casually between the employee and their immediate
supervisor or as part of an organization’s formal performance
management process. The key here is that each employee is
actively occupied in the objective setting process and takes
responsibility for last objectives and measures.
Performance statement: Regularly feed back to employee’s
information on how they are performing. This might comprise
of both positive statement on what the employee is doing right
and additionally input on what requires change. The statement
should be objective as possible and delivered with the
appropriate interpersonal and conflict resolution skills. It can
be a mix of both casual feedback and conveyed as part of a
formal performance management cycle.
Workplace incentive: Determine what rouses your employees in
specifically and set up formal and casual structures for
rewarding employees that act in the way required. Rewards

4. may comprise of internal and external rewards, for example
such as challenging assignments higher payment and associate
recognition.
Supervisor Support: Acts as promoters for employees,
assembling and distributing the resource needed by them in
order for them to be able to do a good job. Immediate
supervisors and managers need to showcase the interpersonal
aptitudes needed to captivate employees and upgrade self
assurance. This includes providing positive encouragement for
a job well done.
Mentoring/Coaching: Make accessible to employees talented
and regarded individuals to help them perform better in their
present role and to support them to advance further into a future
role. Mentor and coaches may be internal to an organization or
external. It is possible that way they will represents the
employees, apply existing aptitudes and advance new aptitudes.
Equity retained a licensed Occupational Therapist and
Personal & Professional Life Coach as our Corporate Coach.
The Life Coach brings a variety of skills to help manage our
growing organization toward overall health and well being to
assist us in implementing programs to improve the heart of
Equity. Equity will roll out programs such as “Living a
Balanced Life”, “Stress Management”, “Effective
Communication” and “Wellness Management”.
In conclusion Equity Management has established a
respectable business reputation of placing it is employee’s well
being, safety, motivation, and job satisfaction as a constant top
priority of the organization. Equity has invested heavily in the
well being of its employee’s and the employees have in turn
invested their time and production efforts to the corporation.
References

5. (2013, June 30th). Retrieved from http://www.equitymgmt.com/
(2013, June 30th). Retrieved from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leadership
Richard L. Draft. (2011). The Leadership Experience, p 396,
397, 400, 405, 406, 408 and 410.
This week, you covered topics in motivation, decision-making
and leadership. You should work on the assignment related to
your company this week while keeping the following questions
in mind:
Ask Your Company
SAKS FIFTH AVENUE
· Does your company have good motivated leaders? Does this
reflect in their leadership style? How?
· What factors do you have here that make motivating
employees difficult?
· What are some ways you motivate employees? How would you
motivate employees that are different from each other?
· What types of leaders are present in your company? Why do
you feel that they fall into that category? (For easy reference,
types of leaders would include transactional, transformational

6. and also charismatic – so make sure you can describe these
leadership styles to the person in the company you are talking
to. Some leaders may fall into more than one category. Please
note this in your writing if you feel this is the case and include
why.)
· What do you think makes leadership weak? What about your
company and its leaders can you cite that shows strong or weak
leadership?
Ask Yourself
· If you were working as an actual consultant for your company,
what recommendations would you make to them to FIX any
leadership problems?
By Saturday, July 6, 2013, consider the following two issues
and post your thoughts and conclusions on each issue to the
Discussion Area: Use the Ask Yourself and Ask Your Company
questions to help you form your conclusions.
· Your company exhibits certain types of leadership. Leadership
is a very definite pattern of behavior exhibited by good
managers and persons with charisma and power. Determine the
types of leadership and leadership styles that your company's
leadership has. For ease, choose one of their “main” managers
or CEOs and determine their leadership style and include as
much information as possible to support why you think this is
their leadership style.
· Your company has leadership, even if it seems weak. The
problem with many companies is that those in power do not
often exhibit strong leadership characteristics. If this is the case
with your company, please comment on how this area might be
improved within your company. If this is not the case with your
company, describe how strong leadership characteristics are
evidenced. This assignment should draw from the information
given in this lesson, the textbook and any other outside
information the student can find on this topic.