Team Service Project:St. Vincent De Paul

Kendall Keegan, Brandon Paulsen & Sara Paxston

St. Vincent De Paul Located:

4990 Radford Street Dubuque, Iowa

Thrift Store

Criteria for choosing

What We Did…… Sort through gently used donated goods

Clean the thrift store

Organize merchandise

Culture & St. V de P Cultural Values: Shared beliefs about desirable end

states or modes of conduct in a given culture that influence the expression of traits

Culture Strength: The degree to which employees agree about how things should happen within the organization and behave accordingly

“Our members come in every shade of skin color. Some of us are wealthy, some are financially poor, but all of us are blessed with an awareness that our blessings (time, talent or treasure) are to be shared with our brothers and sisters in need.”

Organizational Structure Simple structure: An organization form that features

one person as the central decision-making figure Manager:

Roger Felken

Employee(s):

Cashier

Employee(s):

Sales Rep

Volunteers:Us

Leadership Styles & Behaviors Delegative Style: the leader gives an individual

employee or a group of employees the responsibility for making the decision within some set of specified boundary conditions

Expectancy Theory A theory that describes the cognitive process

employees go through to make choices among different voluntary responses

What they did well Delegated tasks effectively

Provide good opportunities for volunteer

Positive work environment

The tasks are straightforward and uncomplicated

Criticisms of the Organization

Unorganized

not well managed

Leadership

Laidback

Motivation

No incentives for task completion

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