Yeni bir işe başladığınızda ve bazı şeylerin nedenini sorduğunuzda yeni iş arkadaşlarınızdan şu cümleyi duymuş olabilirsiniz; “Burada bu iş böyle yapılır.” Zamanla o işin-işlerin yapılma şekli, o iş yerinin kültürü haline gelmiştir. Ancak dünyanın hızlı değişimi ile kuruluşlar ve iş yapma şekilleri de değişmelidir ve çalışanlar da bu değişime tüm kollardan ayak uydurmalıdır.
Kurumsal Kültürü Değiştirmek, Sahiplik ve Hesap Verebilirlik Oluşturmak
Örgüt kültürü, “burada işlerin yapılma şekli” haline gelen, kendi kendini güçlendiren inançlar, uygulamalar, kalıplar ve davranışlar ağıdır. Liderlerin kendi bilinçli ve bilinçsiz inançları, davranışları yönlendirir ve tekrarlanan davranışlar kültürel normlar haline gelir. Sürekli değişen dünyamızda ayakta kalabilmek için ise bu köklenmiş kültür anlayışını yenilenmeli ve geliştirilmelidir.
Akademik partnerimiz Center for Creative Leadership’in (CCL), bu konuda kurumsal liderler, İK, Öğrenme ve Gelişim, Liderlik ve Yetenek Yönetimi alanlarında bir grup küresel Başkan Yardımcısı ve direktörle yaptığı anket ve araştırmalara göre başarılı bir kültürel dönüşüm sağlayabilmek için, çalışanlara yeni yönü açıkça iletebilen, şirketin kaynaklarını hizalayabilen ve dahil olan herkesten taahhüt alabilen güçlü liderlere ihtiyaç var. Aynı zamanda değişen zamana uyum sağlamak için verimliliği, yeniliği ve çevikliği destekleyen güçlü kurumsal kültürü oluşturabilecek liderlerin yanı sıra, sahiplik, hesap verebilirlik ve sorumluluk üstlenmeye istekli çalışanlar da gerekli.
Bu da akıllara şu soruyu getiriyor; peki bu dönüşüme eşlik eden ekipleriniz, kuruluşunuzun başarısında ve başarısızlığında kendisini sorumlu hissediyor mu? Organizasyonunuz ‘kiracılarla’ mı yoksa “sahiplik zihniyetine” sahip insanlarla mı dolu?
“Sahiplik Zihniyeti” Nedir?
“Sahiplik zihniyetine” sahip ekiplerde sorumluluk üstlenilir ve bu kişiler meslektaşlarına ve paydaşlara organizasyonu dönüştürmek için birlikte çalışmaya olan bağlılıklarını bildirirler.
Ancak kültür değişimini engelleyen en büyük zorluklardan biri, organizasyonel değişime karşı genel bir direnç hissidir – Buna “değişim yorgunluğu” da denir. Esasında mantıklıdır, çünkü değişimin kümülatif bir etkisi vardır ve insanların rezervlerini tüketebilir. Bu nedenle liderler genellikle organizasyonlarını sürekli olarak sarsan değişiklikler konusunda endişelenirler. Ancak bunu çalışanlarına daha esnek olmalarını sağlayacak şekilde iletmezler.
Nasıl Sahiplik ve Hesap Verebilirlik Oluşturulur?
Bu konuda en iyi örneklerden biri Microsoft ve 2014’te göreve gelen CEO’su Satya Nadella’dır. Microsoft, o dönemde organizasyon yapısı ile ciddi iç sorunlar yaşıyordu. Adeta bölümler arasında bir iç savaş vardı ve bu da inovasyonu ve ilerlemeyi ciddi bir şekilde engelliyordu. Ayrıca çalışanlar olumlu bir amaç duygusundan yoksundu, bunun sonucunda moraller düşüktü ve çalışan bağlılığı zayıftı. Nadella, yıkıcı iç rekabetini ortadan kaldırmak için teknoloji devinde büyük bir yeniden yapılanma üstlendi. Tüm çalışanları sınırlı bir dizi ortak hedefe odaklamaya ve hepsini bir araya getirmeye başladı. Çalışanlara, “Gezegendeki her insanı ve her kuruluşu daha fazlasını başarmaları için güçlendirmek.” misyonu ile yeni, anlamlı bir görev verdi ve düşüncelerini onlarla paylaştı. Bu hareket sayesinde çalışanlar, işlerine gerçek anlam katan ortak bir hedefi takip etmeye başladı ve parladılar.
Bu örnekte olduğu gibi, kültürel dönüşüm, en kolay şekilde küçük, kademeli davranış değişiklikleri ve yön veren liderler yoluyla elde edilir. Bunun nedeni, çalışanlar tarafından cesur, cüretkar hedeflerin genellikle göz korkutucu ve ulaşılamaz olarak algılanmasıdır. Ayrıca geçmiş başarısız deneyimler de oldukça etkilidir.
Lider olarak, cesur hedefleri ve dönüşümsel değişiklikleri tutarlı bir şekilde ele almak kuruluşunuzda hesap verebilirlik ve sahiplik zihniyeti oluşturmanın daha sürdürülebilir bir yolu olabilir.
Organizasyonda kültürel değişim ve dönüşüm, sahiplik zihniyeti oluşturma ve değişim liderliği gibi konularda ihtiyacınıza yönelik özelleştirilmiş programlar için bizimle iletişime geçin.
When you start a new job and ask why things were done that way, you may have heard the following sentence from your new colleagues; “This is the way things are done around here.” In the course of time, the way that work is done has become the culture of that workplace. However, with the rapid change of the world, organizations and the way they do business must also change, and employees must keep up with this change from all branches.
Changing Corporate Culture, Establishing Ownership and Accountability
Organizational culture is a self-reinforcing web of beliefs, practices, patterns, and behaviors that become “the way things are done around here.” Leaders’ own conscious and unconscious beliefs guide behavior, and repeated behavior becomes cultural norms. In order to survive in our ever-changing world, this long-established understanding of culture must be renewed and developed.
According to the surveys and research conducted by our academic partner Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) with a group of global Vice Presidents and directors in the fields of corporate leaders, HR, Learning and Development, Leadership and Talent Management, in order to ensure a successful cultural transformation, there is a need for strong leaders who can clearly communicate the new direction to the employees, align the company’s resources, and get commitment from everyone involved. At the same time, alongside the leaders who can create a strong corporate culture that supports efficiency, innovation and agility in order to adapt to changing times, there is a need for employees who are willing to assume ownership, accountability and responsibility.
This brings to mind the following question; So, do your teams accompanying this transformation feel responsible for the success and failure of your organization? Is your organization full of ‘renters’ or people with an ‘ownership mindset’?
What Is an “Ownership Mindset”?
Teams with an “ownership mindset” take responsibility and communicate their commitment to colleagues and stakeholders to work together to transform the organization.
But one of the biggest challenges blocking culture change is a general feeling of resistance to organizational change – Also called “change fatigue.” It actually makes sense, because the change has a cumulative effect and can drain people’s reserves. This is why leaders often worry about the changes that are constantly buffeting their organizations. But they aren’t conveying it to their employees in a way that would allow them to be more resilient.
How to Build Ownership and Accountability
One of the best examples in this regard is Microsoft and its CEO, Satya Nadella, who took up the position in 2014. Microsoft was experiencing serious internal problems with its organizational structure at that time. It was as if there was a civil war between departments, which seriously blocked innovation and progress. In addition, employees lacked a positive sense of purpose, resulting in low morale and poor employee engagement. Nadella undertook a major restructuring at the tech giant to eliminate its devastating domestic competition. He began to focus all employees on a limited set of common goals and bring them all together. He gave to the employees a new, meaningful task with a mission of “Empowering every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more” and shared his thoughts with them. Thanks to this movement, employees began to follow a common goal that gave real meaning to their work and they shined.
As in this example, cultural transformation is most easily achieved through small, gradual behavioral changes and leading leaders. This is because bold, daring goals are often perceived by employees as intimidating and unattainable. Also, past unsuccessful experiences are highly influential.
As a leader, consistently addressing bold goals and transformational changes can be a more sustainable way to build a mindset of accountability and ownership in your organization.
Contact us for customized programs for your needs, such as cultural change and transformation in the organization, creating an ownership mindset and change leadership.
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1. PARTIES
This User Agreement ("Agreement"); was executed between 41 North Business School Eğitim A.Ş.
(“41 North”) who owns https://41north.com.tr/ and the mobile devices applications, and with its principal office located at Esentepe Mahallesi Büyükdere Caddesi Ferko Signature,No:175 /B4 Levent İSTANBUL and; The (“User”) who becomes a website user by accepting the following terms on the www.41 NORTH.com (“Platform”), in order to set out the conditions for the User to utilize the services provided by 41 NORTH.
41 NORTH and the User shall be hereinafter referred to as "Party" individually and "Parties" collectively.
2. DEFINITIONS
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Seller: Refers to the legal person launching or selling a product or service which is subject to electronic trade via a platform.
Service provider: Refers to real or legal persons operating in electronic trade.
User: Refers to the real persons who acquire “User” capacity by accepting the User Agreement, the terms of use and privacy statements at www.41north.com.tr, and who becomes a member of the website by providing their personal data, the information requested in the communication/information forms on the website with their own explicit consent, or who only visit the website and use the Platform.
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LPPD: Refers to The Law on Protection of Personal Data no 6698.
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3. RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF THE PARTIES
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3.2. In the case of dispute concerning the person to which the rights and liabilities of User belongs, and the persons in question submits a request with 41 NORTH in this respect, the person who made the last payment to 41 NORTH for any given Service via the relevant User account will be considered as the owner of the User account and action will be taken accordingly.
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3.4. The User accepts and declares that the 41 NORTH is the seller party and he/she is the buyer party in the distant sales contracts to be executed while purchasing from 41 NORTH through the Platform; 41 NORTH accepts and declares that it is solely liable to him/her in respect of the distant sales contract, in all respects, pursuant to the Seller's applicable consumer law legislation and other legislation.
3.5. In the business model in which 41 NORTH acts as a service provider and sells its own products, the User accepts and declares that he/she is the the Buyer party and 41 NORTH is the Seller party.
3.6. 41 NORTH shall have the right to collect the price of products the User will buy from the Seller and the Buyer shall be released from its payment obligation towards the Seller once it has made such payment to 41 North
3.7. The User accepts and declares that, they will comply with the provisions in this hereby User Agreement, to the applicable legislations and to the code of ethics, with regards to the transactions and correspondence they carry out via the Platform. The civil and penal liabilities related to the User’s actions and transactions within the Platform rest solely with the User.
3.8. Pursuant to the applicable legislations, in the event of a request by the competent authorities, 41 NORTH shall be authorized to diclose the information it has, related to the User, to the authorities in question.
3.9. Personal data obtained from the User during the use of the Platform, may be transferred to other Users and/or Sellers who may be parties to a dispute concerning forgery, fraud by the User and/or Sellers, misuse of the Platform, and offenses which may constitute a crime in terms of the Turkish Criminal Law, provided that such transfer is limited to the claim and serves the purpose of enabling the parties to exercise their legal rights and limited to this scope.
3.10. The User accepts and declares in advance that the operations carried out by him/her when filling out the forms on the Platform were carried out by him/her, that the liability arising from these transactions shall rest with them , and that they will not raise any plea and/or objection alleging that they did not personally carry out these transactions and/or that they will not abstain from fulfilling their obligations in relation to this plea or objection.
3.11. The User shall not use the Platform in a manner that is contrary to law and morality, especially in the following cases.
• Using the Platform as a database on behalf of any person, to create a recording or directory, to check, update or modify;
• Using the Platform in a manner so as to disrupt it fully or partially, to alter it or use it for reverse engineering purposes;
• Carrying out transactions with false information or by using another person's information, false or misrepresented information including, residential address, electronic mail address, contact, payment or account details , incorrect or misrepresented personal data usage to create fake User accounts and the misuse of these accounts in relation to the User Agreement or applicable legislations , using another User’s account without permission, acting as another person or acting as a party or participator with an false name;
The use of comment and rating systems, for purposes which are irrelevant to the Platform such as publishing comments in places other than the Platform , or in ways that are irrelevant to its purpose such as using it to manipulate systems;
• For a virus or other harmful software to spread throughout the Platform, the Platform's database, any content on the Platform;
• For actions which will cause an overload on the technical systems and communications or harm the technical process which takes place, for “screen scraping” software or systems to be used on the Platform without 41 NORTH’s written consent, such as automatic programs, robots, web crawlers, spiders, data mining and data crawling, and for any content on the Platform, completely or partially, to be copied, published or used.
3.12. The User is responsible for carrying out transactions on the Platform without causing technical damage to 41 NORTH material and the Platform under any circumstances. The User accepts and guarantees that they have taken all the necessary precautions to protect the Platform from all kinds of harmful programs, viruses, softwares, unlicensed products, Trojans, etc., including the use of security software and licensed products.
3.13. Usage of the Platform or its contents in breach of the conditions of use specified in the hereby User Agreement or applicable legislation provisions will be deemed contrary to the law; 41 NORTH reserves the right to file lawsuits suits, bring claims and pursuance.
4. CONFIDENTIALITY AND PROTECTION OF PERSONAL DATA
4.1. Your personal data will be processed, collected, used, stored, disclosed, transferred and secured in accordance with the Law on the Protection of Personal Data No. 6698 and any other applicable data protection law by 41 NORTH.
4.2. 41 NORTH and its affiliated companies will collect information about the User's name, surname, gender, date of birth, full address, work and education status, work experience information, cv information, program preferences, e-mail address, phone number, title, city he/she resided in and his/her nationality, payment and invoicing information, internet protocol (IP) address, access date and time to the Platform, the pages he/she accesses when he/she is on the Platform, and the internet address of the website that provides a direct connection to the Platform
4.3. Personal data belonging to User will be shared with 41 NORTH business partners and cloud service providers, including 41 NORTH and its affiliated companies, third party service providers, in accordance with the following purposes.
4.4. 41 NORTH will process and store User data only for marketing and system support purposes such as sales, loyalty programs, special offers, discounts, promotions and informations about campaigns and activities, software development, to provide Users with better services , and within the framework of the legal obligation arising from the related legislation, particularly Law No. 5651 on Regulation of Publications on the Internet and Combating Crimes Committed by Means of Such Publications and related secondary legislation, Law No. 6563 on Regulation of Electronic Commerce and related secondary legislation, Turkish Criminal Code No 5237 and The Law on Protection of Personal Data No 6698; in order to fulfill its aforementioned purpose and legal obligations, based on explicit consent, taking into account the information security measures, provided that it is not used outside the scope and purpose specified in this Agreement
4.5. .41 NORTH processes the User data to ensure the fulfillment of the rights and obligations of both 41 NORTH and the User arising out of this Agreement (based on the agreement), to fulfill our legal obligations arising out of the Law on the Protection of the Consumer and Turkish Code of Obligations in connection to this Agreement, to offer discounts, opportunities, benefits in line with their preferences and likings and send commercial electronic messages upon their approval, as per Law on the Regulation of Electronic Commerce, the Turkish Commercial Code, Law No. 5651 and the Tax Procedure Law (based on the legislation), within the scope of various CRM applications used to increase user satisfaction/commitment, and transfers these data for these purposes. However, 41 NORTH accepts and declares that it will take the required measures to ensure that personal data are processed and protected in accordance with the LPPD.
4.6. 41 NORTH undertakes to take all necessary technical and other measures to protect personal data against unauthorized or illegal processing, loss, destruction or wipe out, and to establish appropriate level of security for the storage of data. 41 NORTH takes the necessary precautions and monitors the systems regularly to prevent unauthorized access to the systems in information collection, storage and processing applications. 41 NORTH restricts access to user data only to employees, contracting parties, intermediaries and other relevant parties who require strict access to this data and have a strict contractual confidentiality obligation.
4.7. Personal data processed for the purposes specified in this Agreement will be anonymized and continue to be used by 41 NORTH when the purpose for processing the data in accordance with Article 7/f.1 of Law No. 6698 ceases to exist, and when the time limits set out by the law have expired in accordance with Article 138 of the Turkish Criminal Code. The User has the right to always delete and revoke his/her consent regarding the processing and use of his/her personal data.
4.8. Pursuant to LPPD, the User has the right;
a. to know whether or not if his/her personal data have been processed.
b. to request information on the procedure, if personal data have been processed,
c. to obtain information on the purpose of processing personal data and find out whether personal data were used as fit for the purpose,
d. to obtain information about the third persons with whom personal data were shared domestically or abroad,
e. to request the correction of personal data that may have been incompletely or inaccurately processed,
f. to request the deletion or destruction of personal data in the event that the reasons for the processing of the personal data have ceased to exist.
g. to require that the above mentioned correction, deletion or destruction to be notified to the third party to whom his/her personal data is transferred, in accordance with Article 7 of the LPPD,
h. to object to the occurrence of an adverse outcome which is detrimental to him/her by the analysis of the processed data exclusively through automated systems
i. to request compensation for damages in the case where damages are sustained as a result of the illegal processing of personal data..
4.9. You can send an e-mail to kisiselverilerim@41north.com.tr from your registered email address to request that your records related to your personal data be updated/corrected/deleted in accordance with Article 11/d of the LPPD, to exercise any other rights you may have under article 11, you can send an e-mail signed with your secure electronic signature to kisiselverilerim@41north.com.tr, or you can forward a file in the form of "word or pdf.” addressed to 41 NORTH to kisiselverilerim@41north.com.tr mail address by signing with a secure e-signature, or you can apply to registered e-mail address existing on the 41 NORTH's web page with your registered e-mail address with secure electronic signature, or you can apply to the current address of 41 NORTH with a petition bearing your wet-ink signature with cargo.
5. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
The intellectual property rights of “41 NORTH” brand and logo application and Platform design, software, domain name and all kinds of trademarks, designs, logos, trade dress, slogans and other content produced by 41 NORTH which are related to these, belong to 41 NORTH. User cannot use, share, distribute, exhibit, copy or reproduce work derived from the property of 41 NORTH or its subsidiaries which are subject to intellectual property rights, without written consent. user cannot use the mobile application or the Platform, in full or partially, in another environment without the written consent of 41 NORTH. In the case where a User acts in breach of the intellectual property rights of 41 NORTH or third parties, the Member shall be obliged to compensate for the direct and indirect damage and loss of 41 NORTH and/or the third party in question.
6. AMENDMENTS TO THE AGREEMENT
41 NORTH may unilaterally amend this User Agreement and any policy, term and condition included in the Platform by means of an announcement via the Platform, provided that they comply with the applicable legislation provisions. Changing provisions in the hereby User Agreement will become valid as of the date on which they are announced on the Platform, the remaining provisions will remain valid and continue to bring about consequences.
7. FORCE MAJEURE
Events occurring beyond the control of 41 NORTH preventing the 41 North from fulfilling its obligations liabilities under the hereby User Agreement or delaying its fulfillment shall be considered as force majeure such as insurgency, embargo, government intervention, rebellion, invasion, mobilization, strike, lockout, work actions or strikes, cyber attacks, communication problems, infrastructure and internet breakdowns, system improvement and renewal work and breakdowns due to , electricity cuts, fire, explosions, storms, floods, migration, epidemics or other natural disasters , and 41 NORTH cannot be held liable for the non- fulfillment or delay in fulfilling the obligations due to Force Majeure and this situation cannot be deemed as a breach of the hereby User Agreement.
8. GENERAL PROVISIONS
8.1. User accepts that in the case of a dispute which may arise from the hereby User Agreement, 41 NORTH’s official books and commercial records and the e-archive records kept in 41 NORTH’s database and servers, electronic information and computer records will be considered as binding, crucial and exclusive evidence and that this clause will be considered as an evidential contract in terms of the 193rd clause of the Civil Courts Law no.6100.
8.2. The hereby User Agreement will be exclusively governed by the Laws of the Republic of Turkey. Istanbul Consumer Arbitration Board and Istanbul (Caglayan) Courts and Enforcement Office shall have jurisdiction over the settlement of all kinds of dispute arising from the hereby User Agreement or related to this hereby User Agreement
8.3. 41 NORTH will contact the User via the e-mail address, via telephone or by sending an / SMS, details of which were provided by the User during the membership process. The User is responsible for keeping their e-mail address and telephone number up to date.
8.4. This hereby User Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between the Parties in relation to the matter. If any term or other provision of this User Agreement is determined by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, illegal or incapable of being enforced, all other terms, provisions and conditions of this User Agreement shall nevertheless remain in full force and effect.
8.5. User cannot completely or partially assign his/her rights or obligations specified in the hereby User Agreement without the prior written consent of 41 NORTH.
8.6. Failure to exercise or perform any right granted under this User Agreement by either Party shall not be construed as a waiver of such right or shall not prevent future exercise or performance of such right.
As of the 8th clause onwards, this hereby User Agreement, will enter into force as from the moment the User has read and acknowledged each provision in full and approved it in the electronic environment.